Friday August 17, 2007
Whatever else we may take away from the recent CG Playhouse post, we learned that the South Florida theater scene has a blog(!): South Florida Theatre Scene. Three months of archives, nine (count ‘em) contributors, and no silly “blogroll” (whatever that is). Good job guys! (But note: you’re spelling “theater” wrong.)
Thanks for the plug;
“Theatre” denotes the craft of performing onstage, while “theater” denotes a building where performing takes place.
Coconut Grove Playhouse is a theater that used to produce theatre.
Christopher~
I’ve heard this distinction before from theater people. No dictionary in the world recognizes it; they list “theatre” simply as a variation of “theater” if at all (my spellchecker is screaming about the “re” version right now).
Frankly, those of us in the outside world see this sort of thing as pretentious and/or confusing, and it makes it harder for us to find things in google.
Most people outside this industry don’t work in a field whose name is also a building. Spelling is largely a matter of mere opinion, anyway. Have you ever read any Shakespeare as he wrote it? Or Poor Richard’s Almanac? Until Webster got involved, any combination of letters that could lead you to saying the word correctly was “correct spelling.”
Chalk it u