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Recent Examples of dramedy
The Cannes crowd warmly embraced the dramedy, which stars June Squibb at the titular Eleanor Morgenstern (Squibb), a fiercely independent Florida retiree who, after the sudden death of her lifelong best friend, relocates to New York to live with her daughter.
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Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 20 May 2025
Your Friends & Neighbors (Apple TV+) – Jon Hamm is stellar in this dramedy about a man who loses everything and turns to a life of crime, burgling his wealthy friends and neighbors while getting mixed up in various relationships and conflicts.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
Sawai is currently in production on (Saint) Peter, a coming-of-age dramedy executive produced by Peter Farrelly, and recently wrapped production on the second season of Apple TV+’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.
—Justin Kroll, Deadline, 15 May 2025
Bonnin reshaped her musical dramedy around a rising chef, played by French pop star Juliette Armanet, who returns to her rural hometown to confront a family health crisis and an unexpected pregnancy — just days before launching her namesake restaurant in Paris.
—Ben Croll, Variety, 12 May 2025
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Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 20 May 2025
Your Friends & Neighbors (Apple TV+) – Jon Hamm is stellar in this dramedy about a man who loses everything and turns to a life of crime, burgling his wealthy friends and neighbors while getting mixed up in various relationships and conflicts.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
Sawai is currently in production on (Saint) Peter, a coming-of-age dramedy executive produced by Peter Farrelly, and recently wrapped production on the second season of Apple TV+’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.
—Justin Kroll, Deadline, 15 May 2025
Bonnin reshaped her musical dramedy around a rising chef, played by French pop star Juliette Armanet, who returns to her rural hometown to confront a family health crisis and an unexpected pregnancy — just days before launching her namesake restaurant in Paris.
—Ben Croll, Variety, 12 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dramedy
Noun
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The Shane Gillis comedy Tires is at #3 now, back for season 3.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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Directed by Tina Romero, the delightful feature debut is a horror comedy chock-full of fun and meaningful ideas, most of which stop just short of fruition.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
10 June 2025
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In Facility Theatre’s new revival of the Irish playwright’s absurdist tragicomedy, the blind and paralyzed character (played by artistic director Kirk Anderson) looks like a slightly steampunk Scrooge, writes Emily McClanathan.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
27 May 2025
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The man who shuffled offstage last year in the middle of the play — an absurdist tragicomedy plagued by poor reviews and weak attendance — has shuffled back onto it.—
Rich Lowry,
National Review,
9 May 2025
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Is there a specific fragment of his soul where all that beautiful melodrama stems from?—
Ernesto Lechner,
Los Angeles Times,
21 May 2025
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The film struggles to let scenes breathe, bludgeons us too frequently with music cues and skips out on crucial emotional beats to replace them with less effective melodrama.—
Brandon Yu,
New York Times,
20 May 2025
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How that psychodrama played out in the UK could have lessons for the US — not least because Cummings eventually succeeded in undermining Johnson’s political career, ultimately defenestrating the prime minister through relentless briefings and leaks.—
Jim Waterson,
semafor.com,
6 June 2025
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And there are many things that people can actually do to get this transcendence, to get away from the tedium of the psychodrama of your own life.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
25 May 2025
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Lee’s multi-faceted career has included appearing in musicals and plays as well as TV dramas and films.—
Joan MacDonald,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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Criss, 38, received his first Tony Award nomination this year for best performance by an actor in a musical for his performance in Maybe Happy Ending.—
Paul Grein,
Billboard,
28 May 2025
Noun
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Each of these tragedies reverberates through their departments and communities, amplifying the sense of vulnerability and loss.—
Jillian E. Snider,
Boston Herald,
13 June 2025
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Just hours before the accident, Kapur made a tribute to the Air India plane crash tragedy.—
StyleCaster Editors,
StyleCaster,
13 June 2025
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The romance appears to have started as a friendship that developed when Jackman and Foster worked together on the classic musical comedy, which ran on Broadway from early 2022 to early 2023.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
4 June 2025
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Beetlejuice The Musical will return to Broadway for the third time when the First National Tour of the international hit musical comedy begins performances Wednesday, October 8 at The Palace Theatre.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
3 June 2025
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“Dramedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dramedy. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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