stage play

noun

: a play that is written to be performed on a stage

She's currently adapting a stage play for the big screen.

Examples of stage play in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

That would take the story full circle as The Invite was born as a Spanish stage play called The Neighbors Upstairs (Los vecinos de arriba) by playwright, director and filmmaker Cesc Gay. — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2026

The Memento star plays the Fox News founder in Ink, Danny Boyle‘s adaptation of James Graham’s 2017 stage play of the same name. — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Sep. 2026

Directed by Slumdog Millionaire’s Danny Boyle and adapted from James Graham’s stage play of the same name, Ink stars Guy Pearce, an Oscar nominee for The Brutalist, as a young Rupert Murdoch building his media empire. — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 1 Sep. 2026

For as dutifully naturalistic as the setups are, the film occasionally takes on the feel of a stage play, where its latticework of accents, syntaxes, and acting styles are allowed to accentuate something other than strict verisimilitude. — Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 21 July 2026

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