performance
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Two-time Oscar winner Adrien Brody made his Broadway debut in “The Fear of 13,” reprising his acclaimed Olivier-nominated London performance.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
Past performance on at least one of those measures seems to have some predictive value, Bendable found.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
Times theater critic Charles McNulty called Lithgow’s performance “at once terrifying and never anything less than human,” and “one of the bravest” of the Broadway season.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
And in a season of something close to perfection, this was arguably his best performance yet.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026
For some reason, though, my performance today is like my baseball tryout—slow, sloppy, and hard to watch.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Vocabulary lists containing performance
Academy Awards, List 6
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