soft-seater
n.— «Several area “soft-seater” theatres (300-500 capacity) also have well-attended seasons with many folk music acts.» —“Roots/Traditional—Two Categories please!!” by Maria Dunn MaplePost (Can.) Oct. 21, 2002. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...
Amid court-ordered busing in the 1970s, a middle-school teacher tried to distract her nervous students on the first day of class with this strange assignment: find a monarch caterpillar. The result? A memorable lesson in the miracle of metamorphosis...