playlet

noun

Definition of playletnext
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for playlet
  1. interlude
  2. dramatization
  3. drama
  4. comedy
  5. melodrama
  6. tragicomedy
Noun
  • Additionally, the frequent interludes of dialogue from the Idlewild movie released at the same time don’t add much to the proceedings, and function as more of an inside joke than anything else.
    — John Hugar, SPIN, 26 Aug. 2026
  • It Brizé’s fourth time in competition at Venice after the Fipresci Prize winning A Woman’s Life as well as Another World and romantic interlude Out of Season, starring Guillaume Canet and Rohrwacher.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of interlude
Noun
  • Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial, a dramatization of the boardroom turmoil at OpenAI and Sam Altman’s brief ouster, was dropped by Amazon MGM shortly after Amazon deepened its strategic relationship with OpenAI.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 2 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 dramatization
Noun
  • Prior to Fifth Season, Irving served as acting director of drama at the BBC overseeing all of its primetime drama output.
    — Alex Ritman, Variety, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Fofana had spent the day at home, playing video games and largely allowing the drama to play out around him.
    — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of drama
Noun
  • Screwball comedies, dark horror flicks and so much more await in this weekend’s edition of your friendly neighborhood streaming guide.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
  • The comedian and actor spoke candidly about his health scare in a 2024 Netflix comedy special, What Had Happened Was.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of comedy
Noun
  • But Rossellini and Visconti, the latter a scion of the country’s aristocratic theater and opera traditions, also mined melodrama, historical epics, and more expressionist genres of filmmaking.
    — Erik Morse, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2026
  • 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
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
Definition of tragicomedy

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“Playlet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/playlet. Accessed 4 Sep. 2026.

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