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Recent Examples of dramatist
British playwright Tom Stoppard, widely regarded as one of the greatest dramatists of his generation, has died at age 88.
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Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2025
Shields reunited with Goold – and James Graham – for the BBC/ Left Bank Pictures television adaptation of the dramatist’s National Theatre hit, the Olivier award-winning Dear England, about Gareth Southgate’s revolutionary tenure as England’s men’s team manager.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 27 Nov. 2025
Famously, the British press conspired to draw the dramatist’s name through the mud, besmirching his literary legacy for generations to follow.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
Nevertheless, this is a very rewarding production that presents an eloquent argument for why Ibsen is considered one of history’s great dramatists.
—Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 21 Sep. 2025
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Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2025
Shields reunited with Goold – and James Graham – for the BBC/ Left Bank Pictures television adaptation of the dramatist’s National Theatre hit, the Olivier award-winning Dear England, about Gareth Southgate’s revolutionary tenure as England’s men’s team manager.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 27 Nov. 2025
Famously, the British press conspired to draw the dramatist’s name through the mud, besmirching his literary legacy for generations to follow.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
Nevertheless, this is a very rewarding production that presents an eloquent argument for why Ibsen is considered one of history’s great dramatists.
—Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 21 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dramatist
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Smith, the playwright, isn’t holding back her enthusiasm for the source material.—
Hanna Wickes,
Kansas City Star,
13 Feb. 2026
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The stage version is being written by Olivier and BAFTA award-winner Stef Smith, a playwright whose credentials signal the production is in accomplished hands.—
Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
13 Feb. 2026
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Brenda Looper joined the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette as a news clerk in April 1997, and worked as a feature writer, reviewer and copy editor on the news side before moving to the opinion section in July 2011.—
Brenda Looper,
Arkansas Online,
11 Feb. 2026
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An InStyle writer shares the surprisingly affordable perfume that earns her more compliments than her luxury fragrances.—
Melony Forcier,
InStyle,
10 Feb. 2026
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But Layton’s attention to detail, mood and character development establish him as a first-class screenwriter and director, showing the style and vision of a Michael Mann and the grasp for dialogue and character like a Quentin Tarantino or Sydney Pollack.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
11 Feb. 2026
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In January 2025, Sinclair’s close friend, the screenwriter and director Jeff Baena, died from suicide.—
Ezra Marcus,
Vulture,
11 Feb. 2026
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And because the scriptwriters love a good story, the Rams must return to the same field as their penance.—
Jeff Howe,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2026
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But for all those American fans who plan to watch the Cortina Olympics, be forewarned: Hollywood’s best scriptwriters are sitting at their typewriters, pounding out the bones of a sports movie about Lindsey Vonn.—
Frederick Dreier,
Outside,
23 Dec. 2025
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Director Wincer and scenarist Wittliff have created a big-hearted epic that sits tall in the saddle, a vivid video display of cowboy iconography that’s got the Emmy brand all over it, and that thrillingly shows how the West can be magnificently won by Hollywood.—
Miles Beller,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Feb. 2026
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The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there.—
Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
22 June 2023
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Reflecting this, in 1726’s Gulliver’s Travels, the Irish litterateur Jonathan Swift satirized early scientists as buffoons.—
Thomas Moynihan,
Big Think,
7 Mar. 2025
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The book was first published anonymously, and its authorship is consequently uncertain, though usually attributed to a minor poet and litterateur named Wu Cheng’en.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
3 Mar. 2021
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