Sentence examples for theatrical figures from inspiring English sources

Table decorations include several theatrical figures inspired by prints of Italian commedia dell'arte actors.

Explore the Larpent plays, papers of prominent theatrical figures of the period, including correspondence, financial documents, and portraits.

Nance, or nancy boy, is disparaging slang for an effeminate or homosexual man, and nances were popular theatrical figures, akin to blackface performers, during the 1920s and '30s.

Murphy's finest set pieces evoke Charles Busch and Bertolt Brecht as well as Lady Bunny, theatrical figures willing to risk the ridiculous for a shot at the transcendent.

Almost alone amid senior theatrical figures, he worked unimpeded both abroad and in Czechoslovakia, the government welcoming both the prestige and hard currency gained by his international reputation.

He will take his place beside such theatrical figures as the playwright Eugene O'Neill, the composer George Gershwin and the actress Helen Hayes.

The androgynous, pensive theatrical figure sitting alone in a cafe, could be the artist himself.

He's by far the most theatrical figure in R&B.

She cut a theatrical figure in tight-fitting black dresses, long silver hair and a deep tan.

He is a brilliantly theatrical figure because he is so inventive and clever, but he is also deeply threatening.

It could turn out to be a portrait of an extremely interesting theatrical figure from the 18th century.