Sentence examples for comic theater from inspiring English sources

The Vaudeville Caravan, developed 15 years ago, brings a kind of interactive comic theater to nursing homes to help older people combat loneliness and isolation.

It really is just a sung valentine to the actor's life, with its joys, hardships and sorrows, set during a period when the comic theater was beginning to shed its vulgar roots and evolve toward a greater refinement.

In a grand tour of comic theater over the centuries, Erich Segal traces the evolution of the classical form from its early origins in a misogynistic quip by the sixth-century B.C. Susarion, through countless weddings and happy endings, to the exasperated monosyllables of Samuel Beckett.

This monograph interrogates how comic theater was exploited in (and worked against) the construction of the monarchy's carefully cultivated public image examining the aesthetic, institutional, and political tensions that arose when a genre with popular roots was folded into the courtly propaganda machine.

We created her together". Although Ms. Louis-Dreyfus has spent virtually all of her career in comedy, first as part of a comic theater group in Chicago, then at "Saturday Night Live" and now in "Seinfeld," without a script she does not sound much like an off-duty comedian.

Early sitcoms took a lot of cues from traditional comic theater; the stories often unfolded on one or two static sets.

As such, it is an oasis of psychological complexity among the bells and whistles of the Comic Book Theater Festival, which is currently stuffing the Brick Theater with no end of chintzy superhero outfits.

(Brantley)20110624 Off Off Broadway The Comic Book Theater Festival The latest themed festival at the Brick Theater includes everything from goofy superhero capers (one of them performed in a van parked nearby) to spoken-word performance to graphic-novel-style pathos to one-night-only events along the lines of "Nerdlesque".

The Comic Book Theater Festival also continues at the Brick through Sunday.

In this instance, the players and coaches loaded onto buses and went to a comic improvisation theater in nearby Ybor City for an afternoon of role-playing and comedy.

Comic Book Theater Festival: 'Death Boogie' (Monday and Tuesday) The encore performances of "Death Boogie," a hip-hop poetry musical performed by Darian Dauchan, with music accompaniment by The Mighty Third Rail and directed by Jennifer McGrath.