(Phrase). The profession.
(Verbs). To act, play, perform, personate 554, play or interpret a part, rehearse, spout, rant, gag, star, walk on.
(Phrase). To strut and fret one's hour on the stage.
To produce, present, stage, stage-manage, feature, screen.
(Adjectives). Dramatic, theatric, theatrical, scenic, histrionic, comic, tragic, buskined, farcical, knock- about, tragi-comic, melodramatic, transpontine, stagy, operatic.