How to Use playwriting in a Sentence
playwriting
noun- He gave classes in playwriting and poetry.
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In a prescient piece of playwriting, Aaron Sorkin has tapped into all of that and more.
—Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
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So much of our new playwriting has gone on to productions all over the country, not just New York.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2023
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Breuer was more adept at working out his ideas in his staging than in his playwriting.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
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Julie Phillipps, of West Hartford, has a playwriting background.
—Michael Walsh, Courant Community, 5 Sep. 2017
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The Windham Theatre Guild is launching a playwriting group.
—Courant Community, 1 May 2018
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But rather than enriching the play’s mystery, the character’s vagueness begins to seem like a playwriting flaw.
—Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 29 June 2018
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Writer David Mamet was born, grew up and had his first playwriting experience in Chicago.
—Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com, 22 Feb. 2018
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The production, an embarrassment of riches, cannot conceal the poverty of the playwriting.
—Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2019
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Hart and Greywoode, from different backgrounds, but both very much into music, were students in a playwriting course at Tisch.
—John Orr, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2019
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Because playwriting is a solitary art, many of the men and women described routines that felt both somewhat typical and wholly changed.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2020
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Davis’ commandingly earthy performance sets the tone for a film that creates enough theatrical freedom for the full range of Wilson’s playwriting.
—Dallas News, 11 Dec. 2020
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Marx Brothers movies were among Ms. Howe’s childhood passions and influenced her playwriting.
—Neil Genzlinger, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
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For the 2018 class of fellows, artists working in two categories — live arts (dance, theater, playwriting and other live performance mediums) and film and music — were awarded grants.
—Ryan Patrick Hooper, Detroit Free Press, 20 June 2018
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In classes with college students and adults, difficult stories do come up, said Deb Margolin, a professor of playwriting and acting at Yale.
—BostonGlobe.com, 24 Nov. 2019
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During summer playwriting programs and in rehearsals, Rasson and Armstrong hope more high school students can get involved.
—Lily Oppenheimer, kansascity, 3 Aug. 2017
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The piece was written during such a specific moment in American playwriting, where the things artists wanted to say were addressed directly.
—Juan A. Ramírez, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2023
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The little funny man’s significance to the screen is roughly that of Shakespeare to playwriting, da Vinci to painting or Jim Farley to party politics.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2020
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The other issue, endemic in Greenberg’s playwriting, is the overly abstract nature of the thematic design.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2021
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The playwriting is more mechanical, organized around a series of snafus that are made worse by the counterintuitive solutions brought to bear.
—Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
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Throughout the duration of her fellowship, Espino hopes to learn more about the Jewish culture, while incorporating her passion for playwriting.
—Orange County Register, 30 Jan. 2017
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So after some time under the influence of Jones’ comic playwriting, that imaginary little restaurant morphed into a joint called BurgerTown.
—David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 29 June 2017
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The arts, music, sculpting, painting, playwriting, film, creative writing, literature, and the arts succeed where politics and religion fail.
—Michael Klein, SPIN, 22 Sep. 2022
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All four contenders were by American writers, and marked Broadway debuts for the authors, delighting champions of American playwriting.
—Michael Paulson, New York Times, 12 June 2017
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Great playwriting often helps inform our views on American character and identity.
—The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2019
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Ritual is central to Wilson’s playwriting: His dramas record the routines and manners of a culture typically shown in secondary relationship to white society.
—Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 24 Oct. 2017
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Torres majored in English literature but dabbled in playwriting.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2020
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UC San Diego's graduate playwriting program is a national powerhouse, with alumni regularly getting their plays produced at prominent theaters around the country.
—James Hebert, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 May 2017
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Annual kids’ playwriting festival performance Presented by the Twin Beach Players.
—Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2017
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Schellhardt oversees the undergraduate playwriting initiative in the Department of Theatre.
—Annie Alleman, chicagotribune.com, 9 May 2018
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