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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.
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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
Its young playwrights, particularly Mr. Patrick, churned out plays, playlets and monologues akin to TikToks, Don Shewey, an author and theater critic, said in a phone interview.
—Penelope Green, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
Its young playwrights, particularly Mr. Patrick, churned out plays, playlets and monologues akin to TikToks, as Don Shewey, the author and theater critic, said in a phone interview.
—Penelope Green, New York Times, 2 May 2023
The video is a two-hander playlet.
—Steven Levy, WIRED, 24 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
In the second playlet, Visitor from Hollywood, Broderick swaps the starchy gray business suit for mod plaid pants, a rust hipster jacket and turtleneck sweater, as well as mutton-chop sideburns, to play Jesse Kiplinger, the Midas Touch producer who has never made a movie that lost money.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Mar. 2022
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
Its young playwrights, particularly Mr. Patrick, churned out plays, playlets and monologues akin to TikToks, Don Shewey, an author and theater critic, said in a phone interview.
—Penelope Green, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
Its young playwrights, particularly Mr. Patrick, churned out plays, playlets and monologues akin to TikToks, as Don Shewey, the author and theater critic, said in a phone interview.
—Penelope Green, New York Times, 2 May 2023
The video is a two-hander playlet.
—Steven Levy, WIRED, 24 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
In the second playlet, Visitor from Hollywood, Broderick swaps the starchy gray business suit for mod plaid pants, a rust hipster jacket and turtleneck sweater, as well as mutton-chop sideburns, to play Jesse Kiplinger, the Midas Touch producer who has never made a movie that lost money.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Mar. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for playlet
Noun
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Lady Gaga’s guest interlude presented the perfect chance for a costume change.—
Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
9 Feb. 2026
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Like Mind of Mine, which features an interlude performed in Urdu, Konnakol will spotlight Zayn’s cultural background.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
4 Feb. 2026
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Unfortunately for Izzo, there are decades of film refuting this as a media dramatization.—
Joe Rexrode,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2026
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With the precision of a great documentarian and the pace of an expert thriller director, Howard mounts an enviably well-rounded procedural dramatization of a story that captivated headlines in 2018.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Jan. 2026
Noun
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There have been no such incidents this year, but there has been plenty of on-court drama that only international team tennis — with home and away ties, and a slot just after a Grand Slam that sees many nations’ top stars resting — can provide.—
James Hansen,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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Then, in the final hour, there is a lot more action – but, somehow, even less drama.—
Hannah Keyser,
CNN Money,
9 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The 30-second Super Bowl version manages to capture most of the ridiculousness of the lengthier, two-and-a-half-minute version directed by Spike Jonze, which feels as silly and committed as any of your favorite Stiller comedy moments.—
Omar L. Gallaga,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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Sánchez Arévalo has framed the film as a deliberate genre blend — thriller, drama, black comedy and Western — emphasizing that its resistance to easy labelling was central to the appeal.—
Emiliano De Pablos,
Variety,
9 Feb. 2026
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Yet after gesturing toward a promising thriller setup, the film soon begins to spin its wheels — doing little to complicate or tighten the melodrama, while only superficially probing its two principal characters as their romance is inevitably reignited.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
5 Feb. 2026
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At their best, these shows are a mirror for what ails society, typically delivered with a heaping side of melodrama and romance.—
David Faris,
TheWeek,
29 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Stoppard broke through in 1966 with his play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, an ambitious tragicomedy that reimagines the lives of two minor characters in Shakespare’s Hamlet, and which became a landmark moment in British theater.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
29 Nov. 2025
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The citizen in you laughs heartily as this film, a tragicomedy, skewers the hypocrisies and ironies of the repressed West.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
21 Nov. 2025
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