Since the cavernous old theater is only open when events are booked, it's best to check local listings.

My father and I had the cavernous, dank but blissfully air-conditioned theater to ourselves.

This was a cavernous theatre, accommodating more than 3,600 spectators.

Ms. Mann, who has a cavernous theater in Princeton to contend with, directed a controversial, spacious "Glass Menagerie," with a penetrating performance by Shirley Knight.

Far more powerful are shots of the cavernous theatre itself, where the air is consistently punctuated with the sounds of jackhammers working on an enormous casino nearby.

Not that the audience is spared the high-pitched nattering of children who, given altogether too many lines, must push their voices to the outer reaches of a cavernous theater.

In Palahniuk's version, 17 writers answer an advertisement for a writer's retreat and hole up in a cavernous theater for three months to write their masterpieces.

Playing it big might seem a smart choice in this cavernous theater, but the effect in Ms. Gifford's case is of bad vaudeville.

The 45-minute performance, which begins at 1 P.M., takes place in a cavernous theater with a Baroque chandelier overhead.

Until then most filmgoers patronized cavernous theaters with 1,000 to 1,500 seats.