Sentence examples for essential theater from inspiring English sources

Finding humor and heart in the most atrocious circumstance, this transplant from the Public Theater is essential theater.

But it's essential theater for anyone who wants to see Nathan Lane -- one of the greats -- at the top of his game.

IT'S obvious even to those who've never set a foot backstage that collaboration is essential to theater.

The play is part of the 10th-anniversary celebration of Signature, the essential Manhattan theater company that devotes itself to exploring the lesser-known works of eminent American dramatists.

(The writing is credited to Andrew Grosso and the Essentials, his theater company; Mr. Grosso directs).

And where the imperiled present and essential future of theater is concerned, Paper Mill's priorities are dubious indeed.

Several years ago, Goodspeed identified upgraded housing as essential to the theater's ability to attract the best talent for its productions and to expand its offerings.

One hopes, one prays, that student groups are getting essential preparation (including theater etiquette) and post-play discussions in the classroom.

Ms. Portman's music -- the faintly modal ballad style currently essential to musical theater -- tells us nothing we haven't known for 110 years, offering Vaughan Williams-like declamation and Impressionistic gesture as synthesized for Broadway.

We hope that audiences will collaborate in an act of shared imagination by which we suggest what's there and the audience sees what isn't there at all -- the essential nature of theater".

Even in a post-apartheid era, with newly complex issues, it is essential for a theater piece to transcend a pro and con war of words, and make those words take flight.. Strangely, this dramatically stillborn discourse, was produced after two enduring masterpieces, " 'Master Harold'... and the Boys" and "The Road to Mecca".