dramaturgy

The Broadway revival of “Three Days of Rain,” not being as confidently performed, revealed a common frailty in Greenberg’s dramaturgy — the tendency toward structural abstraction.

Professor Fuchs specialized in dramaturgy, or the construction of a play, including its dramatic structure, its characters’ motivations and technical issues about set design and lighting.

At Mu, we started a fellowship program where all our shows have directing, design, acting, dramaturgy, stage management fellows — it’s on-the-job training; we’re paying them to train.

This is actually a broader phenomenon that sociologist Erving Goffman identified called “dramaturgy.”

“Jack hath not Jill” — which if true enough to life, is way too sudden for dramaturgy.