Sentence examples for a play shut from inspiring English sources

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But what is rare — it has happened only four times since 1980 — is to see a play shut down before opening night.

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Sikh fundamentalists took to the Birmingham Rep to protest because it featured rape in a Sikh gurdwara and eventually managed to get the play shut down.

And during next summer's World Cup, a national holiday will be declared on every day that Brazil play, shutting schools and shops.

The Venezuelan Summer League, where newly signed major league prospects played, shut down last year when the number of participating major league teams dropped to three.

"I was just like, 'Dude, if you weren't born when I started playing, shut up.' He was like, 'Oh, sorry, sir.'" Records: Lakers 6-27; 76ers 3-31.

At other times he swung the guitar, wrapped his fingers around it and played, shutting his eyes, squeezing his face.

The work, by the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, explores the real-life story of a play that was shut down in part because it depicted a lesbian relationship.

The conviction with which Ciocci and Wightman unleash their art live reminded me of the first time that I saw At the Drive-In play a show (shut up, At the Drive-In was amazing).

Hansberry won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for drama, but her play was shut out on Tony night because of a landslide for "The Miracle Worker".

Under the tournament's "extreme heat policy", whereby the conditions are assessed according to a formula taking into account heat and humidity, the referee can stop play and shut the roofs on covered courts.

Other than that one chance, the Devils' power play was shut down by the Kings' smothering penalty-killing unit.

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