Sentence examples for theatrical material from inspiring English sources

Mr. Burke did not initially view the Black Watch as obvious theatrical material.

The nagging suspicion emerges, however, that the overdetermined "7th Monarch" is a frustrated screenplay trying to pass as theatrical material.

The formulaic method of physical action espoused by Grotowski and his protege, Thomas Richards, gained its reputation through the inspiration and charisma of Grotowski, as well as its successful application to certain theatrical material.

CAFÉ CARLYLE Carlyle Hotel, Madison Ave .at 76th St. (212-744-1600) — Jan. 22-March 1: The folk goddess Judy Collins has long had a taste for theatrical material, even scoring a major hit with Sondheim's "Send in the Clowns," in 1975.

And compared with such tepid recent fare as "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," "Jekyll and Hyde," "Jane Eyre," "By Jeeves" and "Summer of '42," with their florid repetitions and glucose-injected melodic lines, the level of sophistication in "Little Ham" is through the roof, which ought to say something encouraging about the jazz idiom as a continuing source of theatrical material.

Besides offering a stage for new theatrical material and, in the process, boosting the careers of such actors as Jane Wyatt, E. G. Marshall, Kitty Carlisle Hart and Cloris Leachman, the Westport Country Playhouse has been a mecca for apprentices and interns ["A Summer Veteran Gets New Life" by Robert Simonson, July 30].

I have some theatrical materials that I use.

In the case of discarded theatrical materials, finding a new home for them is simply not worth the trouble to producers, who don't have the time or financial incentive to put a notice on Craigslist and hope that people show up as promised.

Low-key performances from a radiant cast take the edge off a dense screenplay and Franklin's melancholic direction masks the bravado required to take on such overtly theatrical source material.

His adaptations of "A Clockwork Orange" in 2003 and "Fahrenheit 451" in 2006 were surprisingly sharp-edged, breathing vivid theatrical life into sprawling material on tiny stages.

Recalling the solo work of Mark Almond of Soft Cell, Antony took a cabaret and theatrical approach to his material, adding a good dark twist.