Sentence examples for tale staged from inspiring English sources

Highlights include Stravinsky's "Soldier's Tale" staged in a Civil War fort overlooking the ocean.

Many productions have been twists on well-known popular culture e.g., "Laws" (1976), a shark-filled tale staged shortly after the movie "Jaws" scared people away from the beach.

The resulting hourlong tale, staged last fall at the intimate HERE Arts Center in downtown Manhattan, depicts a mysterious fortuneteller who gathers seven rogues in a Victorian dining room under the pretense of executing a rich man's will.

But director and co-writer Ken Kushner takes too breezy an approach to this cautionary tale, staging it like a Martin Scorsese knockoff, right down to incessant voice-over narration and a soundtrack filled with classic rock (or at least a cheap imitation).

Herbert Wernicke's wondrous fairy-tale staging of Strauss's "Frau Ohne Schatten" remains one of my all-time favorite Met shows.

For several centuries the voodoo zombie remained the staple of tall tales, stage productions, and even early Hollywood movies such as White Zombie (1932) and I Walked With a Zombie (1943).

HOW can Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale" be credibly staged?

"Preview of Murder" is a detective tale come to life, staged by the Old School Theater Company from a story by the 1950's pulp writer Robert Leslie Bellem.

"Gint" is more a staged tall tale or folk ballad than real drama, almost as if Robert William Service were more of an inspiration than Ibsen.

He did a great deal of research on fourth century beliefs, pagan, Christian and heretical, and staged his tale as an exotic drama of ideas.

The Shanghai company has since made lower-profile appearances in New York, and on Friday it returned with a full-evening production of "The Lanke Mountain," an opera based on an ancient folk tale that has been staged at least since the 13th century, at Asia Society.