Drama vs. Theater

Dramanoun

A composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue

Theaternoun

A place or building, consisting of a stage and seating, in which an audience gathers to watch plays, musical performances, public ceremonies, and so on.

Dramanoun

Such a work for television, radio or the cinema (usually one that is not a comedy)

Theaternoun

A region where a particular action takes place; a specific field of action, usually with reference to war.

‘His grandfather was in the Pacific theater during the war.’;

Dramanoun

Theatrical plays in general

Theaternoun

A lecture theatre.

Dramanoun

A situation in real life that has the characteristics of such a theatrical play

Theaternoun

(medicine) An operating theatre or locale for human experimentation.

‘This man is about to die, get him into theater at once!’;

Dramanoun

(slang) Rumor, lying or exaggerated reaction to life events; melodrama; an angry dispute or scene; intrigue or spiteful interpersonal maneuvering.

Theaternoun

(US) A cinema.

‘We sat in the back row of the theater and threw popcorn at the screen.’;

Dramanoun

A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorous actions of more than ordinary interest, tending toward some striking result. It is commonly designed to be spoken and represented by actors on the stage.

‘A divine pastoral drama in the Song of Solomon.’;

Theaternoun

Drama or performance as a profession or artform.

‘I worked in the theater for twenty-five years.’;

Dramanoun

A series of real events invested with a dramatic unity and interest.

‘Westward the course of empire takes its way;The four first acts already past,A fifth shall close the drama with the day;Time's noblest offspring is the last.’; ‘The drama and contrivances of God's providence.’;

Theaternoun

An edifice in which dramatic performances or spectacles are exhibited for the amusement of spectators; anciently uncovered, except the stage, but in modern times roofed.

Dramanoun

Dramatic composition and the literature pertaining to or illustrating it; dramatic literature.

Theaternoun

Any room adapted to the exhibition of any performances before an assembly, as public lectures, scholastic exercises, anatomical demonstrations, surgical operations, etc.

Dramanoun

a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage;

‘he wrote several plays but only one was produced on Broadway’;

Theaternoun

That which resembles a theater in form, use, or the like; a place rising by steps or gradations, like the seats of a theater.

‘Shade above shade, a woody theaterOf stateliest view.’;

Dramanoun

an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional

Theaternoun

A sphere or scheme of operation.

‘For if a man can be partaker of God's theater, he shall likewise be partaker of God's rest.’;

Dramanoun

the literary genre of works intended for the theater

Theaternoun

A place or region where great events are enacted; as, the theater of war.

Dramanoun

the quality of being arresting or highly emotional

Theaternoun

a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented;

‘the house was full’;

Dramanoun

a play for theatre, radio, or television

‘a gritty urban drama about growing up in Harlem’;

Theaternoun

the art of writing and producing plays

Dramanoun

plays as a genre or style of literature

‘Renaissance drama’;

Theaternoun

a region in which active military operations are in progress;

‘the army was in the field awaiting action’; ‘he served in the Vietnam theater for three years’;

Dramanoun

the activity of acting

‘drama school’; ‘teachers who use drama are working in partnership with pupils’;

Dramanoun

an exciting, emotional, or unexpected event or circumstance

‘a hostage drama’; ‘an afternoon of high drama at Wembley’;

Drama

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television. Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's Poetics (c.