Sentence examples for stage portrait from inspiring English sources

Here that trap is life itself, and I can't think of a more wrenching stage portrait of the terror and wonder of being born than the one he provides in the production that opened here on Wednesday night.

As distinctively American in his independence as, say, Mark Twain or Tallulah Bankhead (who have been subjects of one-person Broadway shows), Hoffman is ripe for a stage portrait.

Mr. Bryggman, for whom this is a second Tony nomination as featured actor -- the first was for "Picnic" in 1994 at the Roundabout Theater -- said that for any actor a characterization is never final, a stage portrait is never complete.

At least, these are some of the impressions one is left with at the close of Christopher Trumbo's moving and evocative stage portrait of his father, "Trumbo" (at the Westside).

Aren't they all, stretching back at least as far as Walter Burns and his rascally manipulation of ace reporter Hildy Johnson in "The Front Page," the definitive 1928 stage portrait of the news business by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur that was last revived on Broadway in 1986?

A rather drastic reduction of Tracy Letts's ripe, reckless stage portrait of middle American family ruin, this adaptation (by Letts himself) shears the text's roiling domestic fury down to bristly comic stubble, its streamlined melodrama directed with a televisual banality by John Wells that stresses soap operatic ironies over ugly specifics.

Along with Mr. Huang, Mr. Tan helped create a show that blends martial arts with Zen Buddhism, Tibetan music, dance and colorful stage portraits of scenes from ancient China.

Kim Stanley, whose infrequent but luminous stage portraits brought her to the edge of greatness, but who ultimately shrank from the pressures of performance and stardom, died yesterday at a hospital in Santa Fe, N.M.

The variety — even the staged portrait — was part of the fun.

It is superimposed on another, similarly staged portrait of himself in 2000, standing with his own son, who is around the same age as Mr. Meyer was in the original.

Vanessa Beecroft ("Economy of Desire," P. 72) takes staged portraits of groups of women.