1.   As chefs have achieved celebrity status, dining out has become a theatrical event, with the setting and the props as thrilled over as the tuna tartare.

2.   Between reminiscences, he would express a continuing interest in the latest theatrical events.

3.   A meeting with Long is not so much a conversation as a theatrical event.

4.   Each one of its biggest hits has been a defining theatrical event of its season.

5.   For her one-woman show, Elaine Stritch won the Tony for best special theatrical event.

6.   His fashion shows were spectacles, theatrical events that set the career of the teen-age Brooke Shields in motion.

7.   Stritch, whose show won the Tony for special theatrical event, provided the backstage drama of the evening when she raged against having her acceptance speech cut short.

8.   The actor said that when the queen encountered him at theatrical events after that, she would ask him what he was doing there.

9.   The London theatrical event of the year is likely to be provided by Tom Stoppard, a thoroughly modern playwright who often mines the past for ideas.

10.   The show looks likely to be all alone in the new Tony category for special theatrical event.