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Cinema & theatre: actors & performers
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actress
all-star
alum
belly dancer
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headline
headliner
improviser
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leading lady
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scream queen
spear carrier
stage name
starlet
stooge
superstar
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troupe | American Dictionary

troupe
noun[ C ]
us/trup/
a group of performers, such as actors or dancers, who perform and travel together

Examples of troupe

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For artists in other provincial troupes, social hostility rendered it largely impossible for them to exert any influence over their employers.
Unlike most private troupes, it possesses a truck which allows it to move with all its props and costumes.
Then, beginning on the 5th, the troupe of players begins performances on level ground.
Such acts, routinely put on by opera troupes, served to satisfy the tourists' expectation of showmanship.
The name of his troupe can be translated as 'grouping phosphorescence'.
One of the troupe's most experienced clowns left to perform in the circus troupe.
In the past, rural communities would save up to hire the troupe for a temple festival, a house-warming party, or a novice initiation ceremony.
The longer performances of commedia troupes were constructed around a scenario on which the performers improvised on the sequencing and structuring of set pieces.
The current repertoire of the troupe comprises twenty plots, but the stories are not as important as the singing abilities of the performers.
Were there really troupes of silent, rapidly signing prehominids?
Although the hero and heroine roles are the highest in the troupe's hierarchy, the clowns also remain popular favourites.
The theatre had an administrative section, an experimental performing troupe, a creative workshop, and a theatre studio for training new talent.
In 1697, however, the theatre was closed overnight by royal decree and the troupe expelled, due to the licentiousness of some of its performances.
As access to the companies increased, the old scenario of a youth 'running off ' to join an itinerant troupe was reinvigorated.
Both men were chagrined to discover that they had been called to serve with the troupe of comedians.
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