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playlet

noun

Definition of playlet

as in interlude

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Recent Examples of playlet The novelty of a concrete pier was celebrated in a September 1909 gala opening, with a playlet starring Queen Santa Monica and Rex Neptune. — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024 The playlets each have from one to three actors in them and are each inspired by, but not about, a different painting. — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 26 Feb. 2024 The chance to do more of it presented itself during the pandemic, when Monahon worked on virtual playlets for the 24 Hour Plays. — Rhoda Feng, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2023 Shaffer had seen in Pushkin’s playlet the rudiments of a grand spectacle, framed, like so many of his plays, as a duel between two men of different generations. — Simon Callow, The New York Review of Books, 22 Dec. 2022

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Noun

There’s a spike about an hour before first pitch, a rock-and-roll interlude to spur his adrenaline.

— Zack Meisel, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
The Bradley Gang Massacre is one of the interludes in King’s original novel.

— Joe Otterson, Variety, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of interlude

Noun

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
Jacobsen wrote a 2024 dramatization, based on dozens of interviews, of how nuclear war would unfold; this is her bioterrorism sequel.

— Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 29 July 2026

Definition of dramatization

Noun

Poor Anton has been left out of the drama all day, an effort by Billie and Samir to prevent an already bad futzing from escalating to something severe, and that’s never where Anton likes to be.

— Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026
Obscured Releasing has acquired North American distribution rights to Árru, the musical drama following a Sàmi family’s fight to protect their land from looming environmental threat.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of drama

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The comedy icon, who turned 100 in June, was born in the silent era and grew up in Brooklyn devouring double bills at his neighborhood theater in the 1930s.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026
Julie Klausner would like comedy liberated from the phone and returned to the sitcom.

— Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of comedy

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Many of today’s independent cinemas are being curated by a generation that grew up without theatrical access to Hong Kong action cinema, Filipino melodrama, or Taiwanese New Cinema.

— José Salazar, IndieWire, 24 Aug. 2026
Inspired by the transient beauty of cherry blossoms, known in Japan as sakura — which is illustrated in their album cover, alongside a dark pegasus — much of the LP also hinges on melodrama.

— Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of melodrama

Noun

Carys made her professional stage debut in June, playing Nina in Anton Chekhov’s tragicomedy The Seagull in Brooklyn.

— Adam England, PEOPLE, 4 Aug. 2026
That’s what appears to be the case with Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, who first met in 1992 on the set of romantic tragicomedy Jamón Jamón.

— Alessandra De Tommasi, Vanity Fair, 5 July 2026

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