theater in the round

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsarena theater

   Broadertheater

Questions about theater in the round

What does theater in the round mean?

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

What is another word for theater in the round?

Close synonyms include arena theater. 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 theater in the round a common word?

theater in the round 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.