(a.) Of or pertaining to a theater, or to the scenic representations; resembling the manner of dramatic performers; histrionic; hence, artificial; as, theatrical performances; theatrical gestures.
Example Sentences:
(1) At a theatrical device, it's a remarkable idea that a character will break the fourth wall.
(2) Years ahead of its time, it saw each song presented theatrically, the musicians concealed in the wings (although Bowie said that they kept creeping on to the stage, literally unable to resist the spotlight) and with Bowie performing on a cherry-picker and on a giant hand, both of which kept breaking down.
(3) "We are trying to create a theatrical version of The Arabian Nights which will do justice to the scale, depth and richness of the stories."
(4) Me and Taika would always do theatrical stuff, running around, miming, putting on voices.
(5) Dexter was a consummate theatrical craftsman and Lindsay was, in one form, a sort of poetic director.
(6) In 1997, the Globe was hardly the first space to challenge theatrical orthodoxy, but it was the first to return the event so wholeheartedly to the audience, and the first to do so in a way that felt so essentially English.
(7) Despite his Catholic upbringing, Clare lost his religious belief as a young man, saying he could not believe in a god that could cause famine, genocide and air crashes, although he admitted to missing the theatricality of the Catholic church.
(8) If someone’s able to keep such a stony-faced expression, it’s either high theatrics or they have no sympathy,” she added.
(9) Everyone was hooked to the drama and theatricality of it all.
(10) Young companies have woken up to the fact that puppetry isn't just a way of putting an extra actor on stage without paying food and accommodation costs, but a brilliant theatrical tool.
(11) Of all the senior clergy of the Church of England, she is arguably the least theatrical.
(12) Sharknado, a satirical disaster film featuring man-eating sharks let loose on Los Angeles by a freak cyclone, premiered on SyFy in 2013 and became a cult hit, gaining some traction later as a theatrical release.
(13) In fact, Guinness was an actor for a new theatrical style, subtle and undecorated.
(14) The costumes look remarkably grand for home theatricals, the jewellery is startlingly convincing, and the band evidently comprises moonlighting members of the Royal Horse Guards.
(15) His recognition of the theatrical value of its decay saved it from destruction.
(16) Theatrically backdropped by conical Great Sugarloaf mountain, the estate is landscaped with terraces, lakes and ponds, and also embraces the country's highest waterfall.
(17) And, although there are a few coups de théâtre (at one point the sky rains white balloons), audiences may be split over whether Van Hove has found a potent enough theatrical equivalent to Antonioni's visual poetry.
(18) When he finally deigned to sit down formally, it was in typically theatrical fashion: after midnight, on a big bed in a five-star suite, the Monte Carlo casino winking beneath our balcony, the ocean sighing behind us.
(19) The idea of the vampire as a silver-tongued aristocrat, like Count Dracula, is mirrored in Irving's thespian mannerisms, and his fascination with theatrical villains.
(20) She returned here and auditioned for Bernard Delfont , the huge theatrical group – it was a cattle market in those days.
Vaudeville
Definition:
(n.) A kind of song of a lively character, frequently embodying a satire on some person or event, sung to a familiar air in couplets with a refrain; a street song; a topical song.
(n.) A theatrical piece, usually a comedy, the dialogue of which is intermingled with light or satirical songs, set to familiar airs.
Example Sentences:
(1) He went from minstrel show to blackface, from vaudeville to Broadway before he hit a fabulous prosperity as the most sentimental of all sentimental singers, a poor Russian cantor's son daubed with burnt cork and down on one knee sobbing for the "mammy" he had never known in a south that nobody ever knew.
(2) Imitating the white, vaudeville television love-to-hate wrestler Gorgeous George, his forecasts bragged the precise round he was going to win, sometimes combining such box-office larks with couplets of doggerel.
(3) | Lucia Graves Read more It was an attempt to resurrect the long-dead genre of vaudeville, only replacing acrobats with Rick Santorum and tenors with veterans.
(4) "Vaudeville distribution allows me to recoup my costs yet I would prefer being corporately presented."
(5) Throughout history, dwarves had been entertainers, often part of a circus or vaudeville show.
(6) Tyne Daly stars in Master Class at the Vaudeville theatre from 21 January to 28 April 2012 Guardian Extra members can get a top price ticket to A Round Heeled Woman for £35.
(7) Of all Jonathan's West End appearances, the one that stands out is an Uncle Vanya at the Vaudeville in 1988 starring Michael Gambon, Jonathan Pryce and Greta Scacchi.
(8) Vaudeville , London WC2 (0844-412 9675), 26 November to 17 January.
(9) "I felt like we were doing a vaudeville act - I mean, it's a sight-gag, I'm six-two, he's about five-two, so there's this immediate visual thing, you've almost won the game before a single pitch is thrown."
(10) Just a few days ago, I was on the stage of the Harvey in Brooklyn, a beaten-up vaudeville hall like the Bouffes, where Sam Mendes is about to launch his globe-spanning Bridge Project with a production of The Cherry Orchard, one of the plays with which Peter opened the Harvey in the 1980s.
(11) Both as a vaudeville show and a political rally, Trump’s event was lacking.
(12) Visual art Robert Rauschenberg: Botanical Vaudeville The late Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) has not had a major show in the UK in 30 years.
(13) Each week I took lessons from the theatre conductor or someone he recommended_ I had great ambitions to be a concert artist, or, failing that, to use it in a vaudeville act."
(14) Located on the east side, this classic spot feels like it's an old live theatre, with a dose of vaudeville sparkle.
(15) The cinema was built in 1929 as a vaudeville theatre, and between the 50s and 70s was used to screen erotic films and grindhouse fare, latterly with nude dancers accompanying the screenings.
(16) Still, last autumn G4S reckoned it had retired from vaudeville and dispatched a smart new PR team around London to tell critics all about its newfound professionalism.
(17) That play also opened at the Donmar before transferring to the Vaudeville theatre.
(18) He remained haunted by his father's remark about his literary debut: "It is not even drama - it is vaudeville."
(19) Several rightwing politicians accused Hollande of carrying out a love-life "vaudeville".
(20) The Grammy for best song that year, for instance, was won not by the Beach Boys’ Good Vibrations or the Four Tops’ Reach Out I’ll Be There but by the New Vaudeville Band’s jaunty jazz age pastiche Winchester Cathedral.