Background
Background noun - The physical conditions or features that form the setting against which something is viewed.
Theater and background are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Theater" instead a noun "Background".
Theater
Theater noun - A building or part of a building where movies are shown.
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Synonyms for Theater
Background and theater are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Background" instead a noun "Theater".
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Wicki dies in the bar, Aldo and Utivich survive, a minor Basterd is seen in the background at the animal clinic and Donny and Omar die in the theater.
Source: Film / Inglourious Basterds - The 1953 film The Robe was Fox's first Cinemascope film, and they marked the occasion by changing the background of the logo from a sky to that of a theater curtain.
Source: Logo Joke / 20th Century Fox - Invoked in The X-Files when one of The Men in Black claims that Saddam Hussein is in fact a character actor with a background in dinner theater who "plays great ethnics".
Source: Plays Great Ethnics
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