Sentence examples for captivating theater from inspiring English sources
WASHINGTON — President Obama's luncheon Tuesday with Senate Republicans was not televised like a similar session earlier this year with the House opposition, but evidently it would have made for captivating theater.
The very opportunity and freedom that Shakespeare details are vividly on trial in "On Such a Full Sea's" captivating theater of oppression and compliance, and in that way the novel most devastatingly offers a cautionary tale of a future that only this past — our present — could create.
The show has captivated the theater world for months after originating at the Public Theater in New York's East Village in February, thanks to its thoroughly modern musical approach to the centuries-old story of one of US history's most fascinating characters.
His play should translate easily into captivating present-day theater.
And there come those glorious moments in "Brief Encounter," the British-based Kneehigh Theater's captivating adaptation of the 1945 movie, when the propriety-stifled lovers at its center are allowed to swoon for real.
Though Julie Kent's Giselle is lovely and shy, she doesn't ever impose herself on the arc of the ballet; I suspect her mad scene would be nuanced and captivating in a small theater, but it seems wanly polite on a grand stage.
In 2005 he visited the arts center in Midtown that Mikhail Baryshnikov was developing and was captivated by the theater's soaring space.
Letterman was absolutely delighted by the kinetic performance of frontman Samuel T Herring during Future Islands' network television debut, punctuating his monologues with clips of Herring's dance moves multiple nights after these Baltimore warehouse-scene veterans captivated the Ed Sullivan Theater – and, eventually, YouTube viewers – with Seasons (Waiting On You).
The punk dance performance that in June opened Pringle of Scotland's debut Milan show prompted fashion critic Matthew Schneier to comment that "as a night at the theater, it was captivating," but the knitwear collection made less of an impression.
Few actors can perform this role in such a captivating manner, to the point of bringing the entire theater to pin-drop silence as they await Othello's next move - a classic plot otherwise without surprise for many.
Pleasing as it would be to report that Charlotte Moore's production for the Irish Repertory Theater restores the sparkle to a dusty jewel, this intermittently captivating show is of interest primarily as a vintage curio.
