Sentence examples for play has been given from inspiring English sources

But while the play has been given an imaginative physical production by the director, Marcus Stern, and the set designer, Christine Jones, the words provide the real scenery.

And I'm not sure that the pull-out-all-the-stops conceptual production that this play has been given by its director, Michael Longhurst (who also staged "Constellations"), and its designer, the feverishly inventive Beowulf Boritt ("Chaplin: The Musical"), finally does its author or its accomplished actors any favors.

The Islanders, a team that has blown raspberries at the N.H.L.'s elite and kills penalties as if they are on the power play, had been given a terrific chance to fatten their point total in a seven-game stretch against losing teams.

In the theater's Monday night series, 70 new plays have been given staged readings.

Two of his plays had been given their American premieres by the company, and he had also directed a production for the company.

Fear itself is something to fear in "The American Plan" by Richard Greenberg, an elegant and incisive 1990 play that has been given the revival it deserves by the Manhattan Theater Club.

They hang, in a neat and gleaming row of nine, above the sink of the fashionable London home that is the setting for "Stockholm," Bryony Lavery's sharp and twisting liebestod of a play, which has been given a smashing American premiere at Stageworks/Hudson here.

At first glance this play — which has been given a tight, testosterone-fueled production by Robert Hastie — feels like a fouler-mouthed variation on "Journey's End," R. C. Sherriff's paradigmatic antiwar drama of the 1920s that enjoyed a superb Broadway revival in 2007.

Perhaps to fake out the right, the villain played by Ms. Streep has been given the look, manner and senatorial rank of Hillary Clinton.

The twofold wonder, then, of "End of the Rainbow" is that Peter Quilter has written a proper play and that it has been given a London premiere by the director Terry Johnson that is considerably better than one had any right to expect.

Because a coach plays the team he has been given.