Word: drama
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gauntlet in which privacy means absolutely nothing. Every aspect of character is exposed, and every decision can destroy a [candidacy], and perhaps even the candidate, in a way that's unique to the merciless public exposure that running for President brings. To me, it's like a courtroom drama intensified. There are always surprises. There are always revelations of character, and nothing is out of bounds. It's great drama...
...gauntlet in which privacy means absolutely nothing. Every aspect of character is exposed, and every decision can destroy a [candidacy], and perhaps even the candidate, in a way that's unique to the merciless public exposure that running for President brings. To me, it's like a courtroom drama intensified. There are always surprises. There are always revelations of character, and nothing is out of bounds. It's great drama...
...entangled romantic interactions between Jackie and Jon, the most fully realized of the play’s two characters, made “The Art Room” more than a comedy that also happened to feature the screams and flashing lights expected of psychological dramas. If you missed the embrace that Jackie and Jon shared at a key point in the play, you missed a moment that simultaneously conveyed feelings of fear, inadequacy, love, lust, and attachment—even insanity. While “The Art Room” struggled to find an identity between comedy and drama...
...murder occurred in the Agassiz Theatre this past weekend. “Bodas de Sangre” began as an unexciting stage drama. But the second act was filled with all the blood and aggression characteristic of a crime of passion—and by the end, nobody was complaining. “Bodas de Sangre” (“Blood Wedding”), written by the Spanish genius Federico Garcia Lorca in 1932, premiered as the first all-Spanish play to have ever been performed in a Harvard theatre. Directed by Christopher N. Hanley...
...Urinetown,” running through November 10, is a satire that juxtaposes politics and bathroom humor. In drama, this divisive subject matter must be carefully presented in order to provoke laughter instead of offense. The script, written by Chicago artists Mark Hollman and Greg Kotis, and its production by the Adams House Drama Society manage this feat with an absurdist mix of bald honesty and self-deprecating asides...