Definition of Street theater

1. Noun. Dramatization of a social issue; enacted outside in a park or on the street.

Exact synonyms: Guerrilla Theater
Generic synonyms: Dramatisation, Dramatization

Lexicographical Neighbors of Street Theater

street market
street name
street organ
street party
street person
street pigeon
street racing
street railway
street shoes
street sign
street smart
street smarts
street sweeper
street team
street teams
street theater (current term)
street urchin
streetball
streetballer
streetballers
streetcar
streetcar track
streetcars
streetcorner
streetcorners
streete
streeted
streetfight
streetfighter
streetfighters

Literary usage of Street theater

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Memorial History of the City of New-York: From Its First Settlement to by James Grant Wilson (1893)
"The next move was to the Chapel street theater, built in 1761 on what is now Beekman ... The John street theater, built in 1767 a little east of Broadway, ..."

2. Occasional Addresses by Laurence Hutton, William R. Carey (1890)
"Hallam at the John street theater, New-York. THESE flattering plaudits cannot fail to raise A wish to merit such transcendent praise; It can but be a wish, ..."

3. 1795-1895. One Hundred Years of American Commerce ...: A History of American by Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1895)
"Mr. Warren, after he became Wig- nell's successor in Philadelphia, associated with himself in the direction of the Chestnut street theater a popular young ..."

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