Old jerks ringing a theatre about performances (9)
I believe the answer is:
operatics
'performances' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether this works.
'old jerks ringing a theatre' is the wordplay.
'old' becomes 'o' (abbreviation).
'jerks' becomes 'tics'.
'ringing' indicates putting letters inside.
'a' becomes 'per' (eg 'one a day' means 'one per day').
'theatre' becomes 'a' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'o'+'tics'='otics'
'per'+'a'='pera'
'otics' placed around 'pera' is 'OPERATICS'.
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