How To Use Theatrical In A Sentence

It is the first major film the Star Wars actor, from Crieff, has made in the town where he got his first theatrical break.
The dramatic spirit of the Italian race seems to communicate itself to the puppets, and they perform their parts with a fidelity to theatrical unnaturalness which is wonderful. Venetian Life
Traditional bridal wear combines with theatrical costume and effects to create an entertaining and thought-provoking visual statement.
It seems that creator Bruno Heller is interested in revisiting the series as a theatrical film. HBO’s Rome to be Resurrected As A Film? | /Film
When she wasn't humming she spoke in "theatrical tongue" using many made-up words as we laughed and we purged. La question mille francs - French Word-A-Day

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You lot do know that one of the key scenes was cut from the theatrical release, right?
His wayward behaviour became part of theatrical lore. Times, Sunday Times
We have relearnt the old tricks of theatrical intimacy. Times, Sunday Times
She is now majoring in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Theatrical Costume Design and aced her first year. What do we teach our kids? | Johnny B. Truant
Finally there are two theatrical trailers for the film, a few previews for other Fox releases, and some DVD-ROM content.
The book's showbiz scenarios mock theatrical and film prototypes and stereotypes - the revolving cast and their scrimshank plaster-of-Paris mise-en-scene go round and round on the book's gigantic turntable, a shambolic revue, a whirlwind farce ... Comments for RealityStudio
We learned, Ruby and I, that this was a way of being theatrical as well as the other way, and we learned, from Carnovsky and Da Silva, that there was no difference in terms of professional standards and requirements between the actor who merely stood in front of a lectern and the actor who has the benefit of makeup and props and all of the other things. Life Lit by Some Large Vision
The work was divided between dance interludes and theatrical dialogue.
Several times during the speech Perry posed for dramatic effect, once even wrapping his arms around himself and remarking in a theatrical aside: "It's the darnedest thing. CPAC 2011: The Conservative Political Action Conference (Live Coverage, Day Two)
What they need is intensive theatrical training in skills such as deportment and presentation.
The youthful energy and innovation have gone, and his choice of sport is problematic because wrestling is already a theatrical pantomime.
It was also one of the standout theatrical performances of the year. Times, Sunday Times
The theatrical elements are, by far, the clumsiest of the evening. Times, Sunday Times
Using the window like a movie screen or a theatrical proscenium, he constructs a scenario familiar from all visual narrative forms: the characters look at each other while we look at them.
One afternoon was filled with poetry readings, theatrical performances and dance numbers.
A still gallery with 34 production photos, the film's theatrical trailer, and a TV spot round out the extras.
The exploitation of videograms by a non-Canadian service agent excludes any other type of exploitation of the production such as theatrical distribution or broadcast on television.
In the essay, however, the trip took on something of an Arabian Nights adventure and a theatrical transformation scene.
His golden skin and fair hair were artfully set off by the theatrical costume. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
It even sponsored theatricals, and Wilson not only directed two but, incredibly, also performed in a cross-dressing role as Tom Carberry in The Spirit of 76 -- a highly popular farce of this time, exploring what might happen if gender roles were completely inverted. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Harriet Wilson's Sunday School
Slumdog Millionaire is his eighth international theatrically released film.
Thus began a theatrical tradition that ran for almost eight decades.
A handful of other artists staged theatrical public spectacles, performances grounded in the sociologies of place and personality.
Saturday night was especially busy; newsboys in the entertainment districts sold theatrical papers and early Sunday editions long after midnight.
In the end the play seems less a debate about modern art than a clever theatrical con trick in which we, like Adam, emerge decisively duped.
Backstage proper I had expected something approaching theatrical Bedlam. Times, Sunday Times
There was a theatrical air about the whole scene which had a great appeal for me.
His wayward behaviour became part of theatrical lore. Times, Sunday Times
Very promising and brave of them to move forward with the expansion when facing not only this economy, but also the threat of a narrowing gap between theatrical release and VOD video-on-demand dates and the ever- present worldwide problem of piracy. Ashley Wren Collins: Seeking Cinematic Sustenance in a Saturated World
Thespis, of Athens (6th BC) was the first person to speak lines as an individual actor on stage, thus the term “Thespian” to refer to a theatrical performer was born.
The previous Eccentric Club, started in 1890 by Jack Harrison, a theatrical costumier and the father of popular musical comedy actresses Phyllis Monkman, Dorothy Monkman and Beryl Harrison, from its humble beginnings in Shaftesbury Avenue rose to become one of the most influential artistic and business establishments in Britain as well as one of its most generous charities. Archive 2008-08-01
He was really theatrical, dramatic, concerned with the effect on the audience. Times, Sunday Times
The beginning was a great theatrical coup. Times, Sunday Times
He takes the old material, looks at it anew, re-evaluates it and puts it into a theatrical context.
They mistrusted theatrical actors as being artificial, so those actors got bypassed and the directors were bringing people off the streets, which did produce a naturalistic kind of actor.
one of the most theatrical figures in public life
Be dazzled by the physical bravura of the stunts from this Argentinian theatrical circus troupe. Times, Sunday Times
The audio track is mono only, in keeping with the original theatrical release of the film.
He passed a large hall, the Theatre of Assembly, where they had concerts, theatricals, receptions. COUP D'ETAT
an untheatrical personality
Through MIT's Theater Arts Program, students explore diverse theatrical forms and practices, from the scripted play to actor-created theater, from musical theater to the theater of identity politics.
Acting with an amateur theatrical group can be fun.
Arias, recitatives and choruses all profit from his lavish and quite astounding musico-theatrical imagination.
Reading Room is a touring theatrical encounter between a group of dancers and one high-profile actor per performance. Times, Sunday Times
His lectures were full of theatrical gesticulations and breathless descriptions. Times, Sunday Times
Having always considered ourself an average man, we turned the pages hopefully, only to find a considerable amount of information we had never "hankered" for, and could not make use of, as, for instance, how to become the biggest "buyer" in the universe, or how a certain theatrical manager wants you to think he thinks he got on in the world Penguin Persons & Peppermints
There were theatrical agents, Press agents, travel agents and a wigmaker. STAGE FRIGHT
That said, I don't feel that what the production team has devised here is always in the triptych's best theatrical interests.
Shaffer's great gift lies in his ability to animate ideas theatrically.
Why has shopping become such a theatrical experience? Times, Sunday Times
The theatrical techniques adopted by the troupe caught the audience by surprise.
As raw as the theatrical chops may have been at this infant stage, the underlying talent is unquestionably in place.
So what can you say about a film that is so theatrical in conception yet so technically cinematic in execution?
The artist Alessandro Raho usually drapes his subjects in theatrical clothes but with Dame Judy he has opted for a simple white jacket against a stark white background.
I'm not certain how the film was actually shot, but my best guess is that it was filmed full-frame like a television movie, then letterboxed to afford it a more theatrical appearance.
These are the prizes given for the most outstanding British theatrical performances of the year.
Mercer's dialogue required highly accomplished actors with years of theatrical experience.
Viewers baffled by these moments, not to mention the orotund tones and rolled R's of theatrical elocution, will probably welcome the subtitles.
The programme itself is very varied with theatrical performances, classical concerts, lectures, workshops, masterclasses and opera.
From the dawn of sound to the middle of the 1950s, American newspapermen with a background in theatrical drama and novel-reading dominated the prestige end of film reviewing.
About five miles distant in front another line of cliff extends, which thus appears completely to encircle the valley; and hence the name of bay is justified, as applied to this grand amphitheatrical depression. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
She resolutely ignores me, making a theatrical show of turning away and yawning.
At 70, Robert Wilson has long been a monumental figure in the arts, an interdisciplinary visionary who combines music, the visual, dance, deconstructed language, and arresting stage craft to create mind-expanding theatrical events. Erica Abeel: Getting Voluptuous With Robert Wilson at His Hamptons Gala
A theatrical scene requires an obstacle unless it is a pure connective or expository situation.
Archon Beed Thane of Vergill was particularly opposed, and theatrically insulted Leia Organa Solo in order to provoke an honor duel from Isolder.
This is kind of a cute idea, a theatrical tribute to the movies.
This is their theatrical way of grilling fish. Times, Sunday Times
The mass choir thrilled the jam-packed crowd with a medley of folk songs and theatrical dramatizations.
Stripping away the levity of certain scenes and shocking the audience with coarsely untheatrical moments may bring out subtle new nuances in unexpected areas, but it gives no impression of a full reading.
As such, the choreography veers erratically between truly striking theatrical imagery and a surprisingly awkward inarticulation. Times, Sunday Times
Playing huge stadiums meant performing the assaultive, theatrical music that would fill and rock those stadiums.
Dave, who portrays the role of John, is a seasoned and accomplished theatrical performer.
And in the process he gives us one of the most memorable theatrical experiences of the year. Times, Sunday Times
In fact, for a long time, Bourget rose at 3 a.m. and elaborated anxiously study after study, and sketch after sketch, well satisfied when he sometimes noticed his articles in the theatrical 'feuilleton' of the 'Globe' and the The French Immortals Series — Complete
It is a humble but honest place, with food more hearty than fancy, and prices appealing to mere mortals and theatrical luminaries alike.
The cream of Australia's theatrical crowd gathered at Walsh Bay for the opening of the $42-million Sydney Theatre.
Thus, she argues, Plath's poems enact a theatrical performance rather than a sincere expression of mourning.
`Paid in cash" and signed with a big theatrical squiggle that I couldn't read. SNOWJOB
Unusually, all the action takes place on one set which gives it a theatrical feel with characters constantly entering and exiting from the wings.
Its graceful pentameter couplets express the mid-century fascination with theatrical performance.
He currently teaches theatrical scenic design at the Bullis School in Potomac, Maryland.
And yet all his life, his integrity warred with a flair for the theatrical, a fondness for tall tales.
The programme even opens with a theatrically portentous pre-credits teaser, an appetising foretaste of the bloodshed to come.
He alone supplied the deft and necessary touch of self-conscious theatrical artifice.
I'm sure that he has appeared in many fine theatrical productions during his long career as actor.
You never hear it sung by concert singers; because it has no theatricalism in it. The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison
Stoppard uses a dazzling range of literary and theatrical effects, from Wildean epigram to a scene written entirely in limericks, from a suggestion of strip-tease to a lecture on Marxist theory.
The film has had a theatrical release and is available on the net. Times, Sunday Times
The angels who used to back theatrical productions for the love of the craft have given way to market-driven professionals in all art fields who insist on an art industry based on good business decisions.
Yet how this common set of tropes unfolds is hardly familiar, totally transmogrifying a well-worn stone of a concept into a profoundly deep theatrical gem.
Barney's art has a kind of rococo artificiality - he loves powders and pastels - that's theatrical rather than false.
(Bellini is one of my favorites in this regard — how he can hang a theatrically effective musical flow on even his most ludicrous libretti.) Pretty Woman
As such, they carry out the versatility of their roles, demonstrating musical eloquence and theatrical fluency.
Here's an update on some of the more attention-grabbing theatrical spoofs and polemics being presented in Seattle and beyond.
Real authorship questions are complex and interesting, and engage us in learning about textual transmission, the organization and economics of theatrical companies and practices, the organization and economics of printing and stationer's companies. Archive 2007-01-01
Though the theatrical gesticulations seemed slightly complicated to the uninitiated, the enactment was explicit.
Shorn of so much of the theatricalism of ordinary stage performances, there was reality and charm about this that warmed the spectators into frequent bursts of spontaneous enthusiasm which were as draughts of elixir to the players. Seven Miles to Arden
Perhaps it was the queer amphitheatrical effect of this setting that connected up some whimsical train of thought in Maynard's brain. Uncanny Tales
Powell's dramatic presence is obvious and his theatrical contribution assisted greatly in telling the story.
Philippe is a very theatrical, animated presence in the film. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
The final two bars, with their fermatas and sforzandos, are much more theatrical and formidable than Schubert's.
Or rather to the theatrical, in all its forms. Times, Sunday Times
With his death the true loss to mourn is not that of the celebrity designer, but of the outstanding theatrical costumier of his age.
This fact informs us she in on the same page with today's major theatrical innovators.
She always makes some theatrical gesture.
These scampered through his brain and tore up his heart and tumbled about in his throat and lungs, and maintained a furious harlequinade, and in short behaved in a way that was quite disgraceful, and that caused the poor young man alternately to amuse, annoy, astonish, and stun his comrades, who beheld the exterior results of those private theatricals, but had no conception of the terrific combats that took place so frequently on the stage within. The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains
It is given a typically thoughtful production with just enough theatrical fireworks.
He is theatrical on the box, while contrarily being televisual on stage. Times, Sunday Times
Countless instrumental details are imbued with far more theatrical insight than anything on stage. Times, Sunday Times
Surrounded by people who were disinclined to take her seriously, the columnist abandoned the queeny hauteur and theatrical affectations that have been her television trademarks.
She put down her brush and said theatrically, "I feel the fatal premonitive impulses .... Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel
One could think of some events as theatrical or animated music, and others could be seen as ‘musicalised’ theatre.
The quartet sit at the table with its half drunk bottle of red wine and wander around the stage emoting theatrically as if they were at some particularly angst-ridden North London dinner party to which you wouldn't want an invitation.
The work of a theatrical impresario rarely has an afterlife. Times, Sunday Times
Resplendent in his uniform and medals, [Forest] Whitaker's Amin is a gloriously mad and grandiloquent figure, conceived by screenwriters Peter Morgan and Jeremy Brock as a Day-Glo Shakespearean monster, with audacious hints of Othello and even Titus Andronicus, a monster for whom they have written boldly extended dialogue scenes of unabashed intelligence and theatricality," writes the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw. GreenCine Daily: Baftas. Nominations.
It was extremely theatrical, which made the effects more dramatic and powerful.
He pulled and pushed at the social and theatrical conventions of his day and constantly experimented with new dramatic form and technique.
We were told she was an 'angel', a theatrical term for a backer.
Nordic warriors sailed into York in longboats on Saturday morning, before two key battles - Stamford Bridge and the Rout to Riccall - were theatrically recreated.
Holden spent 10 years as an actress in touring theatrical productions.
Most films of the time were still hampered by a sense of theatrical blocking of scenes into linear sequences.
The stage is lusterless, the direction inert, the action scrappy, and every invitation for theatrical excitement turned aside.
Shridhar was always a showboater and wanted Keanu Reeves, while Arivindan and Usiku both selected Harrison Ford as their theatrical doubles. Passeridae
‘With all the witchery of the South in her eyes,’ Bankhead delivered such a fine performance that ‘all indications point to a brilliant and rapid climb to a place in the theatrical sun.’
Yes, I can just see myself at a home for retired theatricals, beret on at a rakish angle, red shoes, lipstick up to my nose, telling people how fantastic I was at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
A trip to a theatrical costumier's secured the fancy dress, complete with buckled shoes, breeches and elaborate cuffs and ruff.
But, unlike the old circus shows with their clowns and candyfloss, this performance is governed by a sophisticated theatrical sensibility.
Nicolette is a theatrical know-it-all, muse, and barstool philosopher with a feminist bent. On June 6th in NYC, Sex Workers Take the Stage for the Sex Worker Cabaret « Bound, Not Gagged
The film is more rounded than the theatrical version, and the background material is exhaustive and satisfying.
Finally, Marshall W. Mason's superb direction, using John Lee Beatty's outstanding set design, also helped to potentiate the theatricalism of the piece.
Design, costume, acting, and theatrical bells and whistles made for an impressive production, turning what could have been an arid treatise on French existentialism into a vivid piece of camp absurdism.
Also included on this disc is an anamorphic theatrical trailer for the film.
The whole also seems short on sensuous visuals or theatrical effects. Times, Sunday Times
An awkward, gangly youth known to her peers as ‘Storky’, she made her theatrical debut in a nativity aged six and promptly devoted herself to the world of theatre.
Extravagant designs that look theatrical, dramatic and poetic are given heavy emphasis.
It was a new theatrical language, drawing on the Japanese traditions of noh and kabuki theatre, and combining them with influences from Western contemporary dance and literature.
Amateur theatricals is all right for an occupation for them that hasn't got anything to do nor nowhere to go, but they cause useless agony to an audience. Chapter One: Introducing the Old Soak
Thorough cast and crew information, production notes, the theatrical trailer, and two TV spots round out the package.
Please do not let them get away with holding the extended edition hostage until everyone buys the theatrical versions.
He also produced tapestry cartoons and designs for theatrical sets and costumes.
And by star, I don\'t mean theatrical heavyweights like Ethel Merman, George M. Cohan or Bert Lahr -- these names certainly mean little to nothing when it comes to the current theatregoing masses. James Sims: Ragtime Battles Celebrity Factor on Broadway, Closes Proudly
It even sponsored theatricals, and Wilson not only directed two but, incredibly, also performed in a cross-dressing role as Tom Carberry in The Spirit of 76 -- a highly popular farce of this time, exploring what might happen if gender roles were completely inverted. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Harriet Wilson's Sunday School
gained valuable experience in amateur theatricals
A cut-throat drama school culture, he argues, is replacing the co-operative ethos and wide experience once offered by amateur theatricals and by the old regional repertory companies. Ian McKellen warns theatre is at risk from fall in acting standards
Simon took another drag and theatrically slitted his eyes as he opened his mouth slightly so the smoke seeped out in tendrils.
Besides all which, we are in the habit of considering ourselves at the present season more than ever entitled to partake of the recreations offered us, whether theatrical, musical, pictorial, saltatorial, philosophical, or scientific. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 422 Volume 17, New Series, January 31, 1852
Sitting at the bottom of the theatrical totem pole, backing dancers were anonymous and underpaid. Times, Sunday Times
There is a mystery about sport's great theatrical spaces when they are empty of athletes. Times, Sunday Times
This show is really just an excuse to rehash some old jokes, routines and toe-curling audience singalongs within a theatrical format.
From Zack Snyder, director of "Watchmen" comes two stories from the graphic novel that do not appear in the Vancouver-lensed "Watchmen" theatrical feature. Archive 2009-02-01
And after the interval comes some of the fiercest theatrical drumming I've heard since Ariane Mnouchkine's production of The Oresteia.
But this is not, thankfully, a compact disc with a theatrical agenda.
The exacting demands of the theatrical calling dims the luster that lured the deluded one recklessly to enter the seemingly attractive circle, to appear as the make-believe heroines of romance on the stage. A Pirate of Parts
She was the late, loved Dame Thora Hird, who lived the last months of her life in Brinsworth House home for retired theatricals.
Though the film was not a smash hit during its theatrical run, I believe it will garner a vast and appreciative audience on DVD.
They discuss theatrical affairs before the players arrive, when Hamlet has their chief tragedian recite a speech about the destruction of Troy.
In terms of British theatrical history it represents the last great fling of the high-flown late Victorian tradition most readily associated with Sir Henry Irving.
All fans get is a measly theatrical trailer for the film.
The inspiration for his clothes was rooted in medievalism, Celtic romance and Renaissance court dress, mated with a theatrical love of layers of contrasting textures and patterns.
Rather, they were theatrically trained actors Welles had assembled many years before with his partner and mentor, John Houseman .
They call their show a theatrical cabaret. Times, Sunday Times
Yes, all is not just illusion, but theatrical illusion, on this cool sea-green isle.
Its reasoning is pragmatic rather than theatrical. Times, Sunday Times
Even if one divides Fassbinder's writing for the theatre neatly into obvious categories - the unpublished early problem plays, the radical experiments at the limits of linguistic performability, the aggressive adaptations of classical and traditional plays, and the late operatic melodramas - it is not easy to make sense of the breakneck evolution of his theatrical and dramaturgical ideas or of his place in the literature of West Germany .... GreenCine Daily
The company had an imaginative director and two budding theatrical costumiers who saved the day.
Forsooth! then you set a kind of stagy, theatrical tone for the book. What I bought – 5 December 2007 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
The complexities of mollification, compensation and reconciliation can often be dealt with outside this theatrical space.
William Gibson, the American playwright who has died aged 94, was acclaimed for two of the best-known theatrical hits of the post-war English-speaking stage.
Rounding out the disc is a brief newsreel of the film's Canadian premiere and the original theatrical trailer.
This is a magical piece of theatre, with a streak of engaging, sly humour and playfulness that takes you into a theatrical world where naturalism and expressionism, realism and surrealism sit side by side.
In the triple pun, ` And there, the Matter ends,’ the fictive ` I’ experiences a new death by losing his soul as well as his identity in the depths of despair, the curtain is rung down on the bad dream along with all the legal theatricalities that bodied it forth, and the poem destroys itself in a tour de force.
By Hollywood standards, his films may seem slow, theatrical, or excessively talky.
But the days when theatrical lenses were available only to movie stars are long gone.
The PARANORMAL ACTIVITY DVD is presented in widescreen enhanced for 16: 9 televisions with Dolby Digital English 5.1 Surround and Spanish 5.1 Surround (theatrical version only) and English, French and Spanish subtitles. PARANORMAL ACTIVITY Giveaway – Collider.com
The owners have recently refurbished the attic space and now regularly hold offbeat theatrical events and musical evenings up there.
Over the years, various stage productions have added their own theatrical styles to the show, ensuring it remains a perennial favourite of theatre-goers around the world.
Indeed, one of the Norwegian scenes that got omitted from the theatrical release of Sicko was an interview with a government "ethicist" whose job it is to make sure health care funds get invested in healthy - as in no harm to people - investments. Ellen Snortland: Sicko Reprise, Please
In the later 1700s Covent Garden and Drury Lane continued to provide English operas as part of the six days a week theatrical repertory.
During the run he was discovered by a theatrical agent. Times, Sunday Times
His golden skin and fair hair were artfully set off by the theatrical costume. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
There was a theatrical air about the whole scene which had a great appeal for me.
The blend of music theatrical ebullience, popular styles, and evocative, plangent tone pictures about the legendary 4th century saint evinces much of the best of his early style.
The assassin fell as he sprang from the box to the stage, where he brandished his bloody dagger, yelled with terrible theatricalism, "_sic semper tyrannis_," and stalking lamely from the platform disappeared in the darkness and rode away. Life of Abraham Lincoln Little Blue Book Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 324
No sooner did Mr. Clay resume his seat than Mr. Cuthbert sprang to his feet, and in an insolent tone alluded to what he called the theatrical manner of the speaker. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis
The only child of nontheatrical parents had already spent four years at a gymnastics academy, and another four at the Kiev State Choreographic Institute. All the World's a Stage
Goffman is claiming here that interiority is a provisional back-of-backstage identity wholly concerned with preparations for, or broody post-mortems of, front-stage performances of the socialized, theatrical self.
Good-bye, Lady Wolvercote; I hope the fair and the theatricals will be a great success. The Invader A Novel
He was theatrical and given to grand gestures. Times, Sunday Times
A theatrical scene requires an obstacle unless it is a pure connective or expository situation.
Thiboldeaux's liberal application of Mellotron and Rhodes piano contributes greatly to this dynamic, and he often backs his theatrical, swerving vocal melodies with simple keyboard countermelodies.
The house had long been looked upon as something of a white elephant in the theatrical jungle; but Lumley, being pushful and knowledgeable, soon built up a valuable following and set the establishment on its legs. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert
It's apparently the leisureliness, the opportunity to chat, the inherent theatricality and the possibility of a draw.
The long silences really worked in a theatrical space.
It may have had a rocky road in its initial theatrical release, but the DVD format allows viewers to explore its unique world.
Initially, the hall was to host lectures and speeches as primary functions, followed by university convocations and ceremonies, and lastly musical and theatrical performances.

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