Sentence examples for compelling stage from inspiring English sources

They decided that tales from Connecticut's history would also make a compelling stage production.

With creative language like that, he should have no problem writing a compelling stage drama.

Ms. Wei is an utterly compelling stage presence, and she played deftly here to the larger scale.

Although Hunt Lieberson's compelling stage presence added mightily to any performance, the voice alone amply conveys her characteristic intensity here.

Then the show caught fire, mainly on the strength of Ms. Rachvelishvili's vocal power and compelling stage presence, and Mr. Eyre's sure sense of dramatic pacing took hold.

Throughout her career, her singing and dancing, both accomplished but not exceptional, merely supported her compelling stage presence, what Coward called her "star quality".

The opera invites imaginative productions: I saw a darkly compelling staging at the Paris National Opera in 2008.

Handel's "Agrippina," a satirical telling of the story of the Emperor Claudius's wife, who tries to get him to name Nero, her son from a previous marriage, as heir, gets a suitably witty, imaginative and compelling staging here.

As if to pick up the mantle from John Webster, the National has opened a scarcely less compelling staging of "Antigone," the Sophocles play featuring an eponymous heroine who herself is granted less stage time than the male nemesis in her midst.

" Reviewing the latter play, Ben Brantley of The New York Times declared him "one of the most compelling classical stage actors of his generation".

And in the title role of an African-American railroad porter turned tin-pot island despot, John Douglas Thompson (previously seen off Broadway as a truly majestic Othello) staked his claim as one of the most compelling classical stage actors of his generation.