theatrical

What it means

1. Of or relating to the theatre.

   1 more example

   12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.

   Synonyms: dramatic, histrionic, scenic, stagy, theatric, thespian

2. Fake and exaggerated.

   The ceremony and its scene were characterised by that high sense of the theatrical which has marked the activities of the Third Reich.

   1941 July, “The Armistice Coach”, in Railway Magazine, page 317

   Synonyms: affected, stagy, affected, effete, fey, recherché, hoity-toity, overrefined

In a sentence

12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.

Where it comes from

From Latin theātricus + -al. By surface analysis, theatre + -ical.