ADJ
- large
- little, small
- crowded, packed
- The theatre was packed for the opening night
- open-air
- puppet
- The pier has a unique little puppet theatre
VERB + THEATRE
- go to, visit
- I haven't been to the theatre for ages
THEATRE + NOUN
- ticket
- production
- audience
- manager, staff
PREP
- at a/the ~
- We were at the theatre last night
- in a/the ~
- There's a bar in the theatre
ADJ
- good, great
- He writes the sort of dialogue that makes great theatre
- live
- amateur
- commercial, professional
- fringe, provincial, repertory
- There was some good fringe theatre at the festival
- classical, contemporary, experimental, modern, music/musical, popular
- street
- We saw some good street theatre while we were in Paris
- community, youth
- political (often figurative)
- The Chancellor's speech was an absorbing piece of political theatre
VERB + THEATRE
- study
- He is studying Greek theatre
VERB + THEATRE
- be in, work in
- go into
- He wants to go into the theatre when he finishes university
THEATRE + NOUN
- director, producer
- company, group
VERB + THEATRE
- take to
- He's already been taken to theatre for the operation
PREP
- in (the) ~
- She was in the operating theatre for two hours