We actually have some pretty good small town theatres here. A couple of years ago I took my daughter to see a few plays over a period of about 6 months and she really enjoyed it. We refer to movies as simply 'movies' and the term 'theatre' means live theatre (plays) unless we say 'movie theatre.'
>>sometimes in pieces of the plot which get revisited or continue through several episode (like Nicole's line in L&O - CI which is in its third season now). And some lines of Star Trek were continuing, like the whole DS9 and several lines in the Enterprise.
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>FWIW, they call those multi-episode plots "story arcs."
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>>Here you mean the theatre in the British sense, with live actors, I presume. In the States, if you say theatre, they first mean theater, where they run movies.
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>Not necessarily. To me, "theater" or "the theater" is live performance. I say "movie theater" or "the movies" for the other.
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>Tamar
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