Sentence examples for topical theater from inspiring English sources

He slowly chipped away at his "big piece of rock" until he had an hour and 45 minutes of remarkably topical theater in both dramatic style and subject matter.

Dramatic work that begins with what we already know (the information that is widely available) and integrates it with the past and future in new and penetrating ways is what makes topical theater important, interesting and timeless.

First produced in London by the Tricycle Theater, which specializes in topical theater assembled from transcripts and interviews, this calmly condemning drama considers the plight of some of the British detainees at the prison established for suspected terrorists at the United States naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

BEN BRANTLEY Allow me to throw a topic before us, Charles -- namely, the topical in theater.

I think its topical theatre.

commissioned Elizabeth Swados of the Tisch School of Arts to turn the sermons of freshman orientation into something more palatable, and she came up with "The Reality Show: N.Y.U.," a piece of musical theater with topical skits often written by students: among them, the Crystal Meth Song, the Gay Ho-Down, the Condom Song and the Confidence Dirge.

Corneal biopsy was taken in the surgical theater under topical anesthesia for microbiological and molecular analyses.

But if there was an absence of the topical dramas that flooded theaters in the first years after the invasion of Iraq ("Stuff Happens" at the National or "Guantánamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom" at the Tricycle), I was repeatedly stirred by productions that found heightened reflections of the present in the past.

To my knowledge, no previous works of theater have been topical in the resonant and specific ways of the Apple Family plays.

The show strikes a fresh, topical note for American musical theater by training a compassionate eye on the struggles of the lower-middle classes.

In his review, Charles Isherwood said the show "strikes a fresh, topical note for American musical theater by training a compassionate eye on the struggles of the lower-middle classes".