Theatre

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Theater or Theatre?

Theater Is the preferred spelling for American English, however sometimes this spelling is used to refer to the physical structure or building where theatre is performed. Theatre is the preferred spelling for British English and is sometime preferred for the art form. The standard reference for spelling in US American English is the Merriam-Webster dictionary  (Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged). In each of these cases, both spellings are, according to Merriam-Webster, acceptable... In American professional usage, dramaturg describes a scholar of theater who collaborates on a theatrical production; dramaturge, on the other hand, means a playwright, particularly in the sense of a master of dramatic structure. This distinction of meanings should dictate your choice of spelling."

From Grammerly: Why Are There Different Spellings: “Theatre” vs. “Theater”? Theater has roots in both Greek and Latin and came to English through the Old French word theatre. Theatre and similar words ending in -re were sometimes spelled with the -er until the 1660s, when the French-borrowed -re spellings came to be preferred; before that, both spellings were considered equally correct. Chaucer, for example, spelled it theatre. Shakespeare, on the other hand, spelled it theater. Today, theatre is considered the correct spelling in Britain and in most English-speaking countries other than the United States.

More discussion can be found online here at the Grammarist website.

Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library.

"The Adding Machine" New York Public Library Digital Collections.