theatricalize

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 he was so funny that I did not have to theatricalize my laughter.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 1, 2015

Why theatricalize a work that achieves its excellence through the short story virtues of modesty, compression and understatement?

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2015

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

A similar professionalism marked “Eterna Iberia,” by Antonio Najarro, though here the style was 20th-century theatricalized flamenco.

From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2024

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

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

“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