theatricalize

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

Though all were powerful, they faced a common difficulty: How to theatricalize in one gesture both individual devastation and collective disaster.

From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2018

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

There are some realities you cannot theatricalize when you translate the reality to lingua franca, which is what English is for the movies.

From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2012

The psychology, however, needs to be more boldly theatricalized, and for Parks that inevitably means verbalized.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2025

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

The simplicity, physicality and direct attack of “À Bras le Corps,” performed in a boxing ring with spectators seated on all sides, was a salutary shock in the highly theatricalized world of 1990s French dance.

From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 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