Sentence examples for performance of a play from inspiring English sources

But, as in the performance of a play, time is important.

An impotent performance of a play that was once prophetic suggests, damagingly, the hopelesness of making a socially essential statement.

Mr. Tosh in a club is not exactly analogous to a preview performance of a play, but it's close.

Every performance of a play in whatever language is itself a form of translation – an attempt to interpret and reanimate sparse and often enigmatic texts.

The set ends weakly, with a performance of a play supposedly by the teenage Merchant, which cheaply sends up adolescent earnestness.

This was the first performance of a play by Samuel Beckett, an Irishman who had emigrated to Paris in 1932 at the age of 26.

A federal judge refused to block a state-supported university from staging performances of a play with a gay Christ-like character.

Think about how many performances of a play or concert you would have to put on in order to reach the Radio 3 audiences; in the order of two million people listening when we are broadcasting a (Karlheinz) Stockhausen day or a David Hare play or a (Harrison Birtwistleeveningng".

He has sponsored a concert by Jay Black at a hotel on Staten Island, where he bobbed on the stage to "Only in America," fireworks at a Staten Island Yankees game, where his picture appeared on the scoreboard, and performances of a play paying tribute to his favorite mayor, Fiorello H. La Guardia.

A performance of "8," a play about the fight for same-sex marriage in California, was held on campus last year, over objections from religious conservatives.

THE SETTING -- Last Thursday's performance of "Charlie Victor Romeo," a play about airplane emergencies, at the Collective Unconscious, a theater on Ludlow Street.