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Recent Examples of psychodrama
This will test the Jonathan Majors bodybuilding psychodrama that debuted at Sundance in 2023 but was derailed by abuse accusations against its star after winning the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision and a distribution deal with Searchlight Pictures, which dropped it.
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Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 21 Mar. 2025
Comic pastiche gives way to tender romantic ballads only to explode in musical psychodrama.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2025
About Town Indie Rock As Father John Misty, the singer and multi-instrumentalist Josh Tillman stages albums as little psychodramas.
—The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2025
The thought that Sam Riley’s Tom might turn out to be Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity or John Garfield in The Postman Always Rings Twice is tantalizing but gradually appears to be more like teasing misdirection as the movie shifts into psychodrama gear.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2025
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Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 21 Mar. 2025
Comic pastiche gives way to tender romantic ballads only to explode in musical psychodrama.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2025
About Town Indie Rock As Father John Misty, the singer and multi-instrumentalist Josh Tillman stages albums as little psychodramas.
—The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2025
The thought that Sam Riley’s Tom might turn out to be Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity or John Garfield in The Postman Always Rings Twice is tantalizing but gradually appears to be more like teasing misdirection as the movie shifts into psychodrama gear.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for psychodrama
Noun
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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
Noun
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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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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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The first couple have long planned on attending the opening night performance of Les Misérables, which is one of the president's favorite musicals.—
Meredith Kile,
People.com,
12 June 2025
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More than a century after Jack Norworth penned the lyrics, a nonprofit founded with the song’s royalties is celebrating 50 years of supporting young musicians — including the talent behind some of today’s most popular musicals.—
James Pollard,
Chicago Tribune,
12 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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In the aftermath of the tragedy, Persun grieved on the shoulders of her parents, Tyler's parents and her circle of ever-supportive friends.—
Zoey Lyttle,
People.com,
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
Noun
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At the end of mountain stages, a delicious monodrama always unfolds.—
Thomas Curran,
Time,
8 Aug. 2023
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Suzie Miller constructs her monodrama at the intersection of #MeToo and British justice, and though the dramatist appends a superfluous moral to the story, the proceedings amount to a virtuosic, blow-by-blow account of a process stacked against female victims.—
Peter Marks,
Washington Post,
17 May 2022
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Essentially, Song created these interludes to expand the world of Materialists.—
Ilana Kaplan,
People.com,
14 June 2025
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The Union Beer interlude kicked off the search for a brick-and-mortar spot, always a difficult process in Miami’s expensive and ever-shifting culinary landscape.—
Connie Ogle,
Miami Herald,
13 June 2025
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“Psychodrama.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/psychodrama. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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