"adroit direction" is a correct and usable phrase in formal written English.
It is typically used to describe the guidance or leadership of someone, where the person is seen to be capable and skillful in their approach. For example: "The new CEO provided the company with adroit direction, resulting in a period of unprecedented growth."
Under the adroit direction of Jeremy Dobrish, the artistic director of the Adobe Theater Company, this intermissionless Moonlight Group presentation underscores its innate humanity by casting many of its actors as members of both households.
Truly wonderful to behold and utterly believable-in, they are manipulated by the same actors who swirl doors, desks, swings, etc around the stage, under Candice Edmunds and Jamie Harrison's adroit direction (Harrison also designs).
Inevitably — and this is the psychological brilliance of the play, which is teased out by Daniel Sullivan's adroit direction — the couple's climate of retreat seeps into Jamie, who is handsome, educated, and capable, but solitary and unable to sustain intimate relationships.
This assessment is the crude beginnings of Farber's critical style use of words and ideas of conflicting emotional resonance as well as the preoccupations that would guide Farber throughout his career overcoming junk writing through adroit camerawork, direction and acting; honesty in craftsmanship for the craft's sake rather than to win awards.
(Defensemen, who were once burly and slow, have become burly and fast — or especially adroit at changing direction).
The Penguin Repertory Company takes an adroit step in that direction with Stephen Mallatratt's supernatural thriller "The Woman in Black," craftily directed by Mark Shanahan.
As a choreographer of others, she is still developing, and although in "The Blues Project," the direction of dancers through space was adroit, seldom was it poetically resonant.
Mr. Hoff's adroit use of the playing space, J. David Brimmer's balletic fight direction, Keith Parham's atmospheric lighting and Dan Lipton's galvanizing live music — from psychedelic guitars to primal bongos — combine to summon a raw emotional power that's less consistent in the text.
Russell Edwards, the reviewer for Variety, praised the cast, cinematography, and direction, and commented that despite occasional glitches, the "adroit thriller ... maintains momentum and credibility".
Beginning with a sheet of calligraphy he made at age 11 and continuing through hanging scrolls painted in his teens — including several astoundingly adroit ones done with his fingertips and fingernails — the show gallops off in several directions.
And as directed by Jeremy Herrin, Ms. Stevenson and the rest of the cast are so adroit and charming that it takes you a while to realize that this play loses its sense of direction well before its long-delayed conclusion.
