Adjective

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Before attending the theater (especially of drinks or a meal).

*{{quote-news, year=1999, date=March 29, author=Enid Nemy, title=Metropolitan Diary, work=New York Times citation

, passage=We picked up our tickets and stopped next door to have a pretheater drink.}}

*{{quote-news, year=2000, date=February 9, author=Rick Marin, title=Fashionably Early: New York Starts Buzzing Before Dusk, work=New York Times citation

, passage=Metrazur, in Grand Central Terminal, throws in a free miniature "suitcase" with its pretheater meal, filled with cookies to munch on during intermission and a $3 MetroCard for the commute to Broadway.}}

*{{quote-news, year=2002, date=November 3, author=Bruce McCall, title=NEW YORK OBSERVED; For Every Light on Broadway, a Case of Indigestion, work=New York Times citation

, passage=If time just doesn't allow for a pretheater restaurant dinner, some places -- Broadway Sal's is one -- can arrange to deliver dinner right to your theater seat.}}

*{{quote-book, year=2005, author=Janet Ware, Al Davis, title=101 Things You Didn't Know About Shakespeare, publisher=Adams Media, isbn=1-59337-295-7 citation

, passage=It's not necessary to be an expert on British royals before you see one of Shakespeare's history plays, but a little pretheater preparation never hurts.}}

*{{quote-book, year=2006, author=Donald Olson, title=Frommer's London from $95 a Day, 10th Edition, publisher=Wiley Publishing, isbn=978-0-417-74702-4 citation

, passage=Even though a la carte prices aren't outrageous, we recommend the three-course pretheater menu.}}

Preceding the formation of theater.

*{{quote-book, year=1998, author=Karen Brazell, title=Traditional Japanese Theater: An Anthology of Plays, publisher=Columbia University Press, isbn=0-231-10873-7 citation

, passage=During the early, pretheater period (ca. 700-1350), both religious and secular performing arts prospered.}}