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theatricalize

[thee-a-tri-kuh-lahyz] / θiˈæ trɪ kəˌlaɪz /


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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

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

It’s an inspiring story of a gifted athlete’s heroics on and off the court, but the summary nature of so much material sometimes lends the impression of a theatricalized book report.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2023

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

Though symphonic music and opera were integral parts of the early history of City Center, performances by two classical musicians seemed slightly off center and off balance in this highly theatricalized evening.

From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2011

“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


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