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Lighting design by Manuel Da Silva, the group’s production manager, provided pools and shafts of illumination to dramatize the darkened stage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026

“I write about things that have happened, and I, in a way, dramatize them by putting music to it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2025

“We had to dramatize this thing that everybody’s been so afraid of, which is dragon-on-dragon war,” said showrunner Ryan Condal, who wrote the episode.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2025

Sophocles’ “Antigone” and Euripides’ “Suppliant Women” dramatize tensions between personal morality, state power and democratic rights.

From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2025

"Because I don't think we ought to dramatize our differences."

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

Along one wall, a 19th-century trompe l’oeil screen dramatizes the classical gentlemanly taste that dominated among Neo-Confucian elites.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

That shaving scene referenced earlier dramatizes why this and other supposedly neutral policies painfully disfavor some people without diving into a medical manual.

From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2025

Betty represents tangible reality while Norma embodies seductive illusion in a musical that dramatizes the unfair fight between them for Joe’s jaded soul.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2024

The play, by Jack Thorne, dramatizes a fraught backstage relationship between Richard Burton and John Gielgud as they rehearse a Broadway production.

From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2024

It dramatizes sound with unique artistic rhythm and design.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

Rick Cole, a former deputy mayor of L.A., said the DSA label for both candidates doesn’t mean they’ll adhere to the most dramatized versions of what DSA stands for.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026

The playwrights of Athens dramatized the tragic tales of kings, including Xerxes of Persia, whose overweening ambitions led the rulers to ruin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026

Melies ended up as a toy seller in Paris’ Gare Montparnasse train station -- a story that was dramatized in Martin Scorsese’s 2011 film, "Hugo."

From Barron's ● Apr. 13, 2026

But in 2026, everything can be dramatized until we’re numb to the truth of what we’re seeing.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026

It dramatized three situations that, we were told, had actually occurred in the past two years.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

The costly behind-the-scenes chaos illustrates the risks in dramatizing the life of a controversial real person.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

In dramatizing the moment to his own benefit, Jackson provoked hostility from King’s widow and others in the movement’s leadership that lasted decades.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026

Masad, a regular contributor to The Times, probes the mysteries of outer space in dramatizing the first alien abduction story.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2025

Why was it important to you to tell this story as a documentary versus dramatizing it?

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2024

As we walk the rest of the way home from school we take turns reading them out loud, dramatizing the parts like radio plays, pausing to shriek with laughter.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood