Thesaurus results for DRAMAS

dramas

noun

plural of drama

as in plays

a written work in which the story is told through speech and action that is intended to be acted out on stage wrote a police drama that really captured the speech of cops and criminals

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Recent Examples of dramas Its slate pairs four features, all set for release in 2027, with three long-form TV dramas at various stages of production. — Ophélie Surcouf, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026 Also in this week’s Screen Gab, our writers recommend a miniseries about a mysterious sea creature terrorizing a small coastal town and a pair of psychological horror dramas exploring female rage. — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026 The 47-year-old Glasgow native has been in massive franchises like X-Men and The Chronicles of Narnia as well as award-winning dramas like The Last King of Scotland and irreverent indies like Filth. — Al Shipley, SPIN, 9 Oct. 2026 There is also Maxima spin-off The Other Royals – A Maxima Story coming next year, and Ludwig, about King Ludwig II, is in the works and set to be one of the biggest-ever period dramas out of Germany. — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2026 His insight gleaned from both his study of history and his instinctive attuning to the dramas that play out on the tongue made his food pop at Coach House and its casual, drinky sibling, Lilac Tiger. — John Kessler, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026 Cohen is sitting in a hotel restaurant at the Toronto Film Festival in mid-September, having just premiered the Israeli movie Our Loves, one of the first film dramas about the traumatic day. — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2026 Either way, the catalog holds few titles that would be meaningful bargaining chips in a negotiation, and few of its indie dramas have franchise potential, Scary Movie aside. — Andrew McGowan, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026 My idea of Sweden was based entirely on Scandi-noir dramas, all bleak landscapes, depressed people and woolly jumpers. — Natasha Langan, TheWeek, 29 Sep. 2026

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Sometimes, maybe once in every eight plays, the track scans as pure camp to me.

— Shaad D’Souza, Pitchfork, 11 Oct. 2026
The phone encounters were conceived before the pandemic, but once quarantine began, the idea of entertaining people through interactive phone plays really began to pick up steam.

— Chris Willman, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of plays

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The school commissions Broadway writers to pen musicals for students each year and recently has added in a new summer musical, where commercial producers can workshop and develop shows.

— Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 25 May 2026
Founded in 2007 by Gary and Erin Lewis, the company produces stage musicals year-round, as well as musical readings and youth drama education programs.

— Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2026

Definition of musicals

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At a moment when historically reliable sources of employment for mid-career comedians—writing for sitcoms and late night, supporting roles in film comedies, commercials—all seem to be in crisis, the podcast business is comparatively lucrative.

— Dan Brooks, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2026
The show was one of just two comedies that NBC picked up for the 2026-2027 broadcast season.

— Joe Otterson, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of comedies

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Public figures face a high bar in defamation cases, and courts have afforded dramatizations of real people broad First Amendment protection.

— Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2026
With each new season, there has been backlash to creative choices made in the dramatizations of these true crime stories.

— Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of dramatizations

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Keynesianism gets a brain freeze John Maynard Keynes is basically the father of macroeconomics, the study of how the entire economy works, including what the government can do to fight recessions, boost employment, and control inflation.

— Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 13 Oct. 2026
Several works confront the digital systems shaping contemporary life, subverting algorithms and finding room for human error and agency.

— Matthew Carey, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026

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