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Recent Examples of tragicomedy
The audience—both the fictional one upstate and the real one in Manhattan—soon slips into a world where human-scale beach balls and painter’s buckets become a playground for physical investigation, where the tragicomedy of real life slips in through the cracks.
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Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 25 Apr. 2025
In its first glimpse of their Carabao Cup-winning team, St James’ Park gave no inclination of letting the moment go, of consigning the recent past to history books which have traditionally read like epic tragicomedy.
—Chris Waugh, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2025
That proved to be the case once more when a major studio balked at his tragicomedy take.
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2025
Directed by Josef Hader The soil of the Austrian countryside is rich with tragicomedy in writer-director-star Hader’s second feature as a director after 2017’s Wild Mouse.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2025
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Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 25 Apr. 2025
In its first glimpse of their Carabao Cup-winning team, St James’ Park gave no inclination of letting the moment go, of consigning the recent past to history books which have traditionally read like epic tragicomedy.
—Chris Waugh, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2025
That proved to be the case once more when a major studio balked at his tragicomedy take.
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2025
Directed by Josef Hader The soil of the Austrian countryside is rich with tragicomedy in writer-director-star Hader’s second feature as a director after 2017’s Wild Mouse.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tragicomedy
Noun
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His performance in The Studio garnered him a nod for outstanding guest actor in a comedy series.—
Julia Moore,
People.com,
15 July 2025
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Fox, Deadline exclusively reported, has been cast in Season 3 of the comedy series.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
15 July 2025
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This is the stuff of old-as-the-hills melodrama, as a vulnerable youngster is caught between good and, well, less good life paths.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
12 July 2025
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The backstage melodrama, the rehearsal montages, the glittering audition sequences didn’t start with disco.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
10 July 2025
Noun
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As the climate crisis accelerates, producing more frequent and devastating tragedies, our leaders must offer more than thoughts and prayers.—
Brian Recker,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 July 2025
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Blakely, along with 26 other Camp Mystic girls and counselors, perished in the deluge – forcing her family to endure yet another unfathomable tragedy.—
Pamela Brown,
CNN Money,
18 July 2025
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How that psychodrama played out in the UK could have lessons for the US — not least because Cummings eventually succeeded in undermining Johnson’s political career, ultimately defenestrating the prime minister through relentless briefings and leaks.—
Jim Waterson,
semafor.com,
6 June 2025
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And there are many things that people can actually do to get this transcendence, to get away from the tedium of the psychodrama of your own life.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
25 May 2025
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On London's West End, a musical of the 1990s movie Clueless also started running this year, with a plot that takes its cues from Austen's novel Emma.—
Robbie Griffiths,
NPR,
20 July 2025
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Cygnet Theatre presents Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic musical about love, betrayal and changing times in the early 1900s Oklahoma Territory.—
Abby Hamblin,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 July 2025
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That actor was Jefferson Mays when this musical comedy by Steven Lutvak and Robert L. Freedman premiered at Hartford Stage in the fall of 2012 directed by Darko Tresnjak.—
David L. Coddon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 July 2025
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Based on the 1980 movie, the musical comedy spins a tale of sexism, revenge and the fight for equal rights in the workplace through the characters of Violet (played by Susan Campen Preuter), Judy (portrayed by Megan Roberts) and Doralee (performed by Brittany Hill).—
Janice Phelan,
Kansas City Star,
25 June 2025
Noun
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Brett Goldstein, also a writer and executive producer on the dramedy, and Brendan Hunt, series co-creator, are also set to reprise their roles as Roy Kent and Coach Beard, respectively.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
21 July 2025
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And there’s North American premieres for Scarlett Johansson’s Eleanor the Great dramedy, which bowed in Cannes and has Sony Pictures Classic releasing the feature directorial debut and award season contender on Sept. 26; and Ramesh Sippy’s Sholay, a remake of the Bollywood epic.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
21 July 2025
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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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“Tragicomedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tragicomedy. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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