arena theater

1. 1.

   a theater arranged with seats around at least three sides of the stage

   Synonymstheater in the round

   Broadertheater

Questions about arena theater

What does arena theater mean?

arena theater means "a theater arranged with seats around at least three sides of the stage".

What is another word for arena theater?

Close synonyms include theater in the round. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is arena theater a common word?

arena theater is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.