theatricalize

Example Sentences

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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

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

I did everything I could to theatricalize him in the extreme.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 29, 2016

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