Sentence examples for public plays from inspiring English sources

They date from 1576 611 years before the first public Venetian opera house); the earliest public plays are known to have incorporated some form of music.

Music between the acts of public plays was customary by 1600, with the audience often calling for the tunes they wanted played.

In Shakespeare's day, performance of public plays required state licensing the express permission of a court officer known as the Master of the Revels and punishment for violating theatrical censorship could be severe.

Mike Bartlett has shown an appetite for big public plays, and in the undervalued 13, seen at the National Theatre, showed oppositional protest movements flailing around in search of a cohesive philosophy.

Matt Wilner, a budget analyst for the Internal Revenue Service whose nationally ranked team, Off in Public, plays in one of WAKA's 26 Washington divisions, falls on the competitive side of the ledger.

Perception of the public plays an important role for the acceptance of public investment projects.

That was the public play.

The evening events are focused on public play and audience participation.

I realized, too, in rehearsal, that this is a public play.

The Blackstone Group, the private equity company that recently went public, played on an even bigger scale.

And their murders were public, played over and over, discussed endlessly, minimized, heroicized, pathologized; as we remain stunned and powerless.