Sentence examples for theatrical time from inspiring English sources

Even today some artists make compelling work that operates outside a conventional theatrical time frame.

On Monday six teams of playwrights and directors display the results of a theatrical time bomb they call "Shotz".

The joke is that both parties are shown in the same theatrical time with the Featherstones swivelling between the two events.

But the story whirls forward at a pacey clip, much like the "Ziegfeld Follies," which recalibrated theatrical time by introducing one wow act just as the last was finishing.

But the riot of styles sometimes clashing and sometimes coalescing during "The Lily's Revenge" offers so many incidental pleasures (resplendently tacky-ornate costumes, a dream ballet, a haiku competition, a stage curtain made entirely of crumpled cocktail napkins) that theatrical time — always a curiously malleable element — seems to contract.

The final theatrical time length ran at 154 minutes.

The risk of any theatrical time-piece is that it rapidly dates.

Or rather: 'Me moind is now turrned hawrr.' But is this Shakespeare or is it a quasi-Elizabethan staging of The Archers For 10 years, the Globe, an obsessive facsimile overseen by Mark Rylance, has specialised in conjuring a theatrical time-warp.

There are theatrical times and they call for theatrical people.

That August, the Theatrical Times wrote, "The performances of this young man are far above the common performances of the mountebanks who give imitations of American and Negro character; there is an ideality in what he does that makes his efforts at once grotesque and poetical, without losing sight of the reality of representation".

The book, now in paperback, was written over an eight-year period by Kaufman, who is also a seasoned New York theater critic, film scholar, and author of Ridiculous: The Life and Theatrical Times of Charles Ludlam, another inspired biography (and just released in a Japanese edition) about the late Greenwich Village theater artist who, on the surface, couldn't be more different from Day.