theatricalize
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But the production from the director Keenan Tyler Oliphant can’t fully theatricalize a text so weighed down by narration.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2022
Instead of trying to theatricalize its story through finding playable action, The Inheritance tries to solve the problem of adapting a literary work through emphasizing its literariness.
From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2019
And not only to vote but also to theatricalize their public commitment to voting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2018
I did everything I could to theatricalize him in the extreme.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 29, 2016
“It presents itself as almost the impossible task: to theatricalize a sprawling and unruly wilderness,” said Joe Tantalo, who is directing.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2014
Even though Gardiner has theatricalized the typically sparse musical with more ambitious design elements and stagecraft, Smith’s storytelling and vocals still carry the show.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2022
“The Mahabharata,’' Brook’s epic production created with co-director Marie-Hélène Estienne and dramatist Jean-Claude Carrière, theatricalized for Western audiences the vast Hindu epic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2022
At the California Science Center, the exhibition design for these gilded wood sculptures and assorted implements of daily life is overly theatricalized.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2018
A fearsomely talented guitarist with dreams of pop domination — or so her highly theatricalized live performances in recent years have suggested — St. Vincent is never less than memorable in concert.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2017
“Literature that is lifelike in essence, moral without being hypocritical, dramatic without being theatricalized, inspiring without being preachy.”
From In the Heart of a Fool by William Allen White
That sentence was so clear and so moving, and I started thinking about theatricalizing the idea that one person can literally be your whole world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2025
