Indeed, the house lights were turned off for theatrical effect.
And the lights will be doused at the end, a sure-fire theatrical effect.
Both musicians and audience were sometimes submerged in darkness, adding to the eerie theatrical effect.
He was a driven self-inventor, ever conscious of his theatrical effect.
"Anthrax?" he said, and then paused as if for theatrical effect.
He changed his choreographic mind several times during this production, always to great theatrical effect.
FOR sheer theatrical effect, it is hard to beat Arnaud Montebourg.
-- a foam made from blood oranges, but in this case, the mildly theatrical effect seems appropriate to the dish.
Mr. Powell has a sure eye for the theatrical effect of ranks of dancers who disperse and re-form continuously.
His work incorporated the theatrical effect of English Elizabethan drama and the English clown, or fool, into German theatre.
But he emphasized that it wasn't important to know the details; what matters, he said, is its theatrical effect.
