1
: the producer of a play or theatrical show
2
: a notably spectacular, dramatic, or effective performer
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Kendrick was a mad scientist, a Broadway-level showman who switched his fits every few songs like a true pop star.
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Mano Sundaresan, Pitchfork, 9 May 2025
In the production, Lewis plays a widowed father of three adult children who is also a former vaudeville showman past his prime and a current-day barber desperately down on his luck.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 24 Apr. 2025
The movie’s more interested in why certain people are so drawn to authoritarian showmen, and, most cuttingly, what makes everyone else tolerate that kind of rule just to get by.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 15 Feb. 2025
Patterson has made Judy into a dynamo, a standout on a show of standouts, and arguably the most unpredictable character in a world where Walton Goggins plays an elderly religious showman with a cocaine problem and a love of water skiing naked.
—Brian Grubb, Vulture, 1 May 2025
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Mano Sundaresan, Pitchfork, 9 May 2025
In the production, Lewis plays a widowed father of three adult children who is also a former vaudeville showman past his prime and a current-day barber desperately down on his luck.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 24 Apr. 2025
The movie’s more interested in why certain people are so drawn to authoritarian showmen, and, most cuttingly, what makes everyone else tolerate that kind of rule just to get by.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 15 Feb. 2025
Patterson has made Judy into a dynamo, a standout on a show of standouts, and arguably the most unpredictable character in a world where Walton Goggins plays an elderly religious showman with a cocaine problem and a love of water skiing naked.
—Brian Grubb, Vulture, 1 May 2025
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“Showman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/showman. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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