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

Unlike in, say, “Stuffed,” in which the comedian Lisa Lampanelli looked at her body issues, there are no attempts to theatricalize the production.

From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2018

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

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 play is a spoof of the theatricalized murder mystery.

From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2017

Cipher Singer-composer Samita Sinha explores a variety of sonic landscapes in this theatricalized work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2015

“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