How to Use stage play in a Sentence

stage play

noun
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  • In the stage play, Clooney will portray Murrow, who died in 1965.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 13 May 2024
  • The drama has already been proven to work, in the form of Satter’s stage play based on the same text.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Those games were followed with group stage play, which ran from Feb. 20-28.
    — Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2024
  • There’s not much there on which to hang an American epic, though many a film and stage play has tried.
    — Bob Verini, Variety, 14 June 2024
  • Netflix is going back in time with its Stranger Things stage play.
    — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 6 Nov. 2023
  • In fact, it was based on a stage play, which was itself an adaptation of the novel.
    — Katie Rife, EW.com, 12 Mar. 2024
  • That hour-long episode, partly shot like a stage play, pulled back on the laughs as Alex P. Keaton dealt with survivor’s remorse after the death of a friend.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 15 Aug. 2024
  • In the early 1970s, various entrepreneurs tried to revive The Ritz as an adult theater and as a stage play venue.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Stranger Things is such a hit, it’s inspired not just candles, but also books, novels, comics, video games and a stage play.
    — Claire Franken, TVLine, 20 July 2024
  • Set in a dark, cluttered space — the tract house where hermetic Charlie’s soul unfolds — The Whale feels as contrived as a stage play.
    — Armond White, National Review, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Each of its eight episodes unfolded like a stage play, as the staff of the Original Beef of Chicagoland careened through the cramped kitchen, confronting their latest crisis.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 19 June 2023
  • But not every author is going to thrive in a writers room or be good at turning his or her book into a film or stage play.
    — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The movie, produced for $22 million, is based on a script by Reilly, which was adapted from a stage play of the same name, also written by the Wilson protégé.
    — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • An opera in concert is basically the musical equivalent of a read-through of a stage play: there’s the music and the singing, but no acting.
    — Nicholas Gallagher, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Betts feels that this stage play can be a reminder of the work that needs to be done in oneself, which in turn will manifest into a larger, more critical change on the outside.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 28 Oct. 2023
  • The Germans are headed home, after a chaotic conclusion to group stage play on Thursday in Australia.
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The script, adapted from director Tina Satter’s stage play, quotes the precise language that Winner used in the moments leading up to her arrest.
    — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The film is a 2022 recording of Jodie Comer’s one-woman performance of Suzie Miller’s stage play which has been watched by nearly half a million people worldwide.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 27 June 2024
  • The streaming giant is a producer on the stage play Patriots, alongside Friedman.
    — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2024
  • But the indecent assault charge has appeared to hurt his career: The Culture Ministry stopped airing an ad with him in it, his scenes have been removed from an upcoming movie, and he was dropped from the cast of a stage play last year.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Writer-director Christy Hall, who originally conceived the scenario as a stage play, lets the chatter roll — there’s a significant stretch in which the cab isn’t even moving.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
  • After all, his slate of future projects is ever-expanding, including several TV shows and stage play.
    — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The story of Gesar is considered one of Central Asia’s literary classics and was passed down in oral tradition for some 1,000 years, as well as literary, poetic and stage play versions.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 19 July 2023
  • Ultimately, via a stage play, the Park Keeper is eventually taught the error of his ways, and Moomintroll forgives him, suggesting the cop become the valley’s administrator of the arts.
    — Laurence Russell, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Expect mistaken-identity fun as Clackamas Repertory Theatre opens its 19th season opens with the amusing stage play.
    — oregonlive, 28 June 2023
  • Meanwhile, the movie is also turning into a musical, with the role of Miranda being played by Vanessa Williams, according to a statement posted Monday on the stage play’s official website.
    — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The magic of Hurrell’s pictures, Shumard notes, is in the relationship between the sitter and the camera, something the photographer can set in motion but never fully control, like a stage play when the curtains go up: Anything can happen.
    — Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2024

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