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Definition of Theater director
1. Noun. Someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show.
Specialized synonyms: Stage Director
Generic synonyms: Supervisor
Specialized synonyms: Granville-barker, Harley Granville-barker, Elia Kazan, Elia Kazanjoglous, Kazan, Konstantin Sergeevich Alekseev, Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky, Konstantin Stanislavsky, Stanislavsky
Derivative terms: Direct
Lexicographical Neighbors of Theater Director
Literary usage of Theater director
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Change Is the Rule: Practical Actions for Change, on Target, on Time, on Budget by Winford E. Holland (2000)
"In this description of change leadership from the cadre of managers, I am being
very careful to recommend a theater director's style of respect and ..."
2. Little Theater Classics by Samuel Atkins Eliot (1920)
"... Detroit, and probably the most successful Little theater director in the
country — for the use of the version made by him, many years ago, ..."
3. Music (1898)
"... present theater 'director in Munich, and his charming wife, and a number of
soldiers who disappeared in the war of 1870, were also guests there. ..."
4. Music: Devoted to the Art, Science, Technic and Literature of Music (1898)
"... Maybach, and his quiet wife, now dead, and the never-to-be-forgotten Max Staga-
mann, present theater director in Munich, and his charming wife, ..."
5. European Theories of the Drama: An Anthology of Dramatic Theory and by Barrett Harper Clark (1918)
"The next year he retired from his position as theater director. The second part
of Fauit appeared in 1833. He died at Weimar in 1832. ..."
6. Chief Contemporary Dramatists, Second Series: Eighteen Plays from the Recent by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (1921)
"IN DRINKWATER, born June 1, 1882; poet and critic; co-founder of the Pilgrim
Players, om which developed the Birmingham Repertory Theater; director and ..."
7. Chief Contemporary Dramatists, Second Series: Eighteen Plays from the Recent by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (1921)
"JOHN DRINKWATER, born June 1, 1882; poet and critic; co-founder of the Pilgrim
Players, from which developed the Birmingham Repertory Theater; director and ..."
8. European Theories of the Drama: An Anthology of Dramatic Theory and by Barrett Harper Clark (1918)
"... parts appeared in 181-2, 1814, and the last, after his death. His wife died
in 1816. The next year he retired from his position as theater director. ..."
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