Sentence examples for engaging comedy from inspiring English sources

Such is the case, at least, in the fictional world of "Rx," a sprightly, engaging comedy by Kate Fodor that opened on Tuesday night at the 59E59 Theaters in a Primary Stages production.

His return may shape something of a sermon, as does an incident that finds greed repaid with compassion and kindness, but De Filippo's text, the crisp adaptation by Linda Alper and Beatrice Basso, and especially the fine acting by the entire cast of 18 turn it into engaging comedy and drama.

In her first novel, a smart, engaging comedy of manners, Waldman scrutinizes the Brooklyn literary set.

Last Friday saw the release of 2 Days in Paris, an engaging comedy written and directed by Julie Delpy.

In 1995, he hosted Midnight Mac, a short-lived show for HBO taped in his hometown, and portrayed Pastor Clever in Ice Cube's engaging comedy Friday.

But in the course of Mr. Dohrn's engaging comedy of manners, Malcolm will learn to his confusion and sorrow that the barriers of language and culture are more formidable than this pleasurable first evening in Beijing might suggest.

Brexit and Trump now loom over culturally engaged comedy, where behind-the-curve jokes can be easily exposed.

Bad Santa proved in 2003 that it is possible to engage comedy audiences with a festive film that isn't exactly selling fuzzy and feelgood, but The Night Before appears to have missed the mark.

Ms. Williams's lovely, subtle performance as Joyce — she's the human equivalent of a cozy chenille blanket — is among the chief enticements of this low-key, engaging new comedy by Annie Baker, a young playwright with a probing, understated voice, making her Off Broadway debut.

"I Met Him in Paris" (1937), one of the 14 collaborations of the director Wesley Ruggles and the screenwriter Claude Binyon, is an engaging formula comedy with Colbert as an American in Paris courted by a charming but caddish Robert Young and a stuffy but dependable Melvyn Douglas.

He gets another chance to work the territory of the unhappy man trying to right the foundering ship that his life has become in All Is Bright, a small but thoroughly engaging dramatic comedy that teams him with his virtual opposite in temperament, Paul Rudd.