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
Johnson is known as the founder of RealReelDrama, a platform dedicated to analyzing and exploring the world of vertical dramas.
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Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 9 June 2026
My husband, inspired by the radio dramas of his childhood, planned the trek with dreams of celebrating, if not re-creating, history.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
Equal parts strong and sultry in dramas like Two Women and romances like The Voyage, the actress was named one of the greatest American screen stars of all time by the AFI in 1999.
—Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 6 June 2026
The Broadview facility has been at the center of one of the biggest political and legal dramas.
—Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2026
Let’s get the word out, even amid the muddy waters of the legal dramas.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 2 June 2026
The Legend of Kitchen Soldier achieved the highest first-week digital viewership record among K-dramas over the past three years.
—Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
Yale Rep had a long history with August Wilson, giving world premieres to the majority of the plays in his Century Cycle of dramas about the Black experience in 20th century America.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 29 May 2026
Sold Out on You’s healing ending Many healing dramas have a rural community as a setting, and Sold Out on You is no different.
—Kayti Burt, Time, 29 May 2026
Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 9 June 2026
My husband, inspired by the radio dramas of his childhood, planned the trek with dreams of celebrating, if not re-creating, history.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
Equal parts strong and sultry in dramas like Two Women and romances like The Voyage, the actress was named one of the greatest American screen stars of all time by the AFI in 1999.
—Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 6 June 2026
The Broadview facility has been at the center of one of the biggest political and legal dramas.
—Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2026
Let’s get the word out, even amid the muddy waters of the legal dramas.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 2 June 2026
The Legend of Kitchen Soldier achieved the highest first-week digital viewership record among K-dramas over the past three years.
—Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
Yale Rep had a long history with August Wilson, giving world premieres to the majority of the plays in his Century Cycle of dramas about the Black experience in 20th century America.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 29 May 2026
Sold Out on You’s healing ending Many healing dramas have a rural community as a setting, and Sold Out on You is no different.
—Kayti Burt, Time, 29 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dramas
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But Wembanyama made other costly crunch-time plays leading into that moment.—
Mark Medina,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2026
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Scary Movie, the latest entry in the beloved horror parody franchise, is overloaded with riffs, digs, plays, and puns on modern cinema.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 June 2026
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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
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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
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The broadest of comedies, the film’s often puerile humor is driven by an endless stream of male bungling, blundering and whining, only to be kicked up a notch by pratfalls of nearly every variety, from getting bucked off a galloping horse to tripping into a pile of trash.—
Natalia Winkelman,
Variety,
27 May 2026
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Two comedies round out the five-strong announcement.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
26 May 2026
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For Dreams of Violets, every image and person in the film is AI generated, but the dramatizations are based on journalistic reports, photographs and eyewitness accounts from which AI video models were used.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
27 May 2026
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One of the most interesting additions is a batch of History Channel dramatizations of the lives of American presidents.—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
15 May 2026
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Partners have received works by Hans Memling, Rembrandt, van Dyck, Matisse, Cézanne, Degas, Georgia O’Keeffe, Alma Thomas, Mark Rothko, and so on.—
Greg Allen,
ARTnews.com,
7 June 2026
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Other works rely more heavily on easy sentiment.—
Ray Mark Rinaldi,
Denver Post,
7 June 2026
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