Sentence examples for cynical theater from inspiring English sources

Eve wants to be Margo, and with the help of the cynical theater critic Addison DeWitt George Sanderssheshe will do anything to reach her goal.

Mr. Rudolph looks at another tortured soul in MRS. PARKER AND THE VICIOUS CIRCLE (1994), about Dorothy Parker Jennifer Jason Leighh), cynical theater critic, poet, screenwriter and queen of the Algonquin Round Table.

I was writing particularly for the cynical theater-goer.

As if to answer the gesture, Yemen announced Wednesday that it had foiled a spectacular plot to bomb oil pipelines and take over major ports — an assertion that was greeted by analysts both here and abroad as little more than cynical political theater aimed at proving that Yemen was capable of defeating Al Qaeda on its own.

David Franks, chairman of the board for Massachusetts Citizens for Life, called the bill "cynical political theater".

Tonally the Web show's episodes are like the musical itself: cheeky, collegial, alternately emotional and cynical, drenched in theater-world minutiae.

Inspired by Mike Nichols's benchmark movie and the cult novel by Charles Webb, this leering, undercooked show is the most cynical specimen of the theater's current vogue for cannibalizing Hollywood classics.

"The Threepenny Opera," a loose adaptation of Gay's original work with new text and music, is a typically cynical and bitterly entertaining Brecht-Weill theater piece, performed here in an English translation by Michael Feingold.

The cabaret genre is responsible for making popular a raft of modern standards, led by the theater songs of Stephen Sondheim, and the brilliant, cynical jazz commentaries of Dave Frishberg.

"Israel had a cynical, slightly dour humor that a lot of people in theater have.

The Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey's version exudes a more cynical air, in which every transaction is accompanied by a loud, pointed cash-register "ching".