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Recent Examples of tragicomedy
The Off-Broadway tragicomedy stars Driver as Strings McCrane, a country music icon who finds himself at a crossroads following the death of his mother.
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Jessica Wang, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2024
But in this first-rate production – featuring superb performances from Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati – the play nevertheless emerges as a gripping drama of great wit, absurdity and tragicomedy.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 26 Sep. 2024
Her writing radiates a cosmic empathy that coexists, sometimes on the same page, with a strain of intolerance blind to life’s tragicomedy.
—Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
As previously reported by Variety, the film is an episodic dark tragicomedy about five individuals grappling with rejection and the desire for revenge.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 2 Aug. 2024
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Jessica Wang, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2024
But in this first-rate production – featuring superb performances from Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati – the play nevertheless emerges as a gripping drama of great wit, absurdity and tragicomedy.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 26 Sep. 2024
Her writing radiates a cosmic empathy that coexists, sometimes on the same page, with a strain of intolerance blind to life’s tragicomedy.
—Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
As previously reported by Variety, the film is an episodic dark tragicomedy about five individuals grappling with rejection and the desire for revenge.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 2 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tragicomedy
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Netflix has unveiled its 2025 Australian content lineup, featuring three new productions spanning mystery, comedy and social commentary.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
30 Jan. 2025
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Dark comedy Fabula, by Dutch director Michiel ten Horn, about a provincial criminal grappling with personal and professional failures, will open the festival, the first Dutch movie to do so since 2018.—
Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
30 Jan. 2025
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Still, Dynevor and Ifans do their best to present these bursts of accidental melodrama in a straightforward manner.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
23 Jan. 2025
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During a run-through for one of the boat’s many melodramas, a Mississippi sheriff storms in, tipped off that Julie is secretly biracial.—
Helen Shaw,
The New Yorker,
21 Jan. 2025
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The GoFundMe appeal continues to raise donations from well-wishers keen to help the family move on from the tragedy.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
20 Jan. 2025
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All these years later, through prosperity and tragedy and a rebirth with the Chiefs, Reid has become what might be considered a coaching version of Picasso — one of the most influential and successful forces ever at their craft.—
Vahe Gregorian,
Kansas City Star,
19 Jan. 2025
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The results are equal parts marital crisis, sins-of-the-father psychodrama and visceral body horror.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Jan. 2025
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Niemann himself sometimes seems like a method actor appearing in a psychodrama, whether by temperament or by a recognition that the mad villain is the only decent role available to him now.—
Louisa Thomas,
The New Yorker,
5 Jan. 2025
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The film adaptation of the iconic musical was released widely in the United States on Jan. 21, 2005 Comments It's been 20 years since Emmy Rossum and Gerard Butler stepped into the iconic mask and white dress to bring The Phantom of the Opera to the big screen.—
Alexandra Schonfeld,
People.com,
22 Jan. 2025
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Taylor-Corbett choreographed and/or directed more than a dozen off-Broadway musicals since 1987, including 1992’s Eating Raoul, 2009’s My Vaudeville Man!—
Mike Barnes,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Jan. 2025
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The cast of Sing Sing will perform an off-Broadway rendition of the play Breaking the Mummy’s Code, a time-traveling musical comedy originally staged at Sing Sing correctional facility in 2005 and reenacted in the A24 film.—
Kalia Richardson,
Rolling Stone,
13 Jan. 2025
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The 54-year-old will become the first Supreme Court justice to make her Broadway debut, with a one-night-only walk-on role in the hit musical comedy & Juliet.—
Dave Quinn,
People.com,
9 Dec. 2024
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British and Irish dramedy Kneecap also found favor with six nominations.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
15 Jan. 2025
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The 1995 dramedy features a split narrative following four women (played by Melanie Griffith, Demi Moore, Rosie O'Donnell and Rita Wilson) recalling their childhood in the 1970s.—
John Russell,
People.com,
10 Jan. 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 2 Feb. 2025.
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