troupe
a company, band, or group of singers, actors, or other performers, especially one that travels about.
to travel as a member of a theatrical company; barnstorm.
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Spanish director Joan Font douses this version of the classic story with some playfulness, recruiting his performance troupe Els Comediants to tell the tale as old as time.
The best things to do in the D.C. area the week of Aug. 26-Sept. 1 | Anying Guo, Hau Chu, Fritz Hahn, Kelsey Ables | August 26, 2021 | Washington PostAs the audience watches on, the team will prompt the AI to generate a script — which a troupe of actors will then perform, despite never having seen the lines before.
An Artificial Intelligence Helped Write This Play. It May Contain Racism | Billy Perrigo | August 23, 2021 | TimeBy 2012, his idea for “The Visitors” had fully developed, and the troupe descended on the house in August.
Revisiting ‘The Visitors’: An oral history of Ragnar Kjartansson’s multimedia masterpiece | Sebastian Smee, Gabriel Florit, Joanne Lee | July 23, 2021 | Washington PostWhat gives the film its greatest appeal, of course, is the chance it affords to see this legendary performance troupe in action.
Legendary dance troupe takes spotlight in ‘Ballerina Boys’ doc | John Paul King | June 2, 2021 | Washington BladePhoto captions in an earlier version of this article incorrectly identified the theater troupe in the photographs and the location where the photographs were taken.
The American parole system is an endless trap — and a moral outrage | Jennifer Miller | May 24, 2021 | Washington Post
Stephen Colbert, Amy Poehler, Steve Carell, and a host of others got their start with the improv troupe.
The Ladies of Second City Read Grindr Hookup Messages | Jack Holmes, The Daily Beast Video | December 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNewman asked the audience, referring to a comedy troupe that preceded Newman.
NYPD Heckles Comedian During Arrest (NSFW) | Alex Chancey, The Daily Beast Video | October 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe met and married his first wife, Jacqueline Witte, in 1949, when they were members of an acting troupe in Illinois.
The Stacks: The Eyes of Winter: Paul Newman at 70 | Peter Richmond | October 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAfter brief runs in community theater and college, she hit the road with a Renaissance fair troupe.
Best Career Arc Ever: From Burlesque To Bartending | Anne Berry | September 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was dark and somewhat stuffy, and it was “home” to a troupe of six.
There were five men and three women in the circus troupe, and among the four nuns was the grave reverend mother of a convent.
The Red Year | Louis TracyToute la nuit ce ne fust que haranguer, chanter, danser; car telle est la vie de toutes ces gens lorsqu'ils sont en troupe.
He dropped his last name, thinking the Smith troupe would not sound as well as Homer.
The Cromptons | Mary J. HolmesAnd there came news that the king was in some gambling house with a troupe of that archfiend's spies.
The Weight of the Crown | Fred M. WhiteThe first playhouse, we should remember, was not erected by a troupe of actors, but by a money-seeking individual.
Shakespearean Playhouses | Joseph Quincy Adams
British Dictionary definitions for troupe
/ (truːp) /
a company of actors or other performers, esp one that travels
(intr) (esp of actors) to move or travel in a group
Origin of troupe
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