How to Use playwriting in a Sentence

playwriting

noun

• He gave classes in playwriting and poetry.
• In a prescient piece of playwriting, Aaron Sorkin has tapped into all of that and more.
  — Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Breuer was more adept at working out his ideas in his staging than in his playwriting.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• Julie Phillipps, of West Hartford, has a playwriting background.
  — Michael Walsh, Courant Community, 5 Sep. 2017
• The Windham Theatre Guild is launching a playwriting group.
  — Courant Community, 1 May 2018
• 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
• Writer David Mamet was born, grew up and had his first playwriting experience in Chicago.
  — Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com, 22 Feb. 2018
• The production, an embarrassment of riches, cannot conceal the poverty of the playwriting.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Marx Brothers movies were among Ms. Howe’s childhood passions and influenced her playwriting.
  — Neil Genzlinger, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
• 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
• 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
• During summer playwriting programs and in rehearsals, Rasson and Armstrong hope more high school students can get involved.
  — Lily Oppenheimer, kansascity, 3 Aug. 2017
• 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
• 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
• The other issue, endemic in Greenberg’s playwriting, is the overly abstract nature of the thematic design.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Great playwriting often helps inform our views on American character and identity.
  — The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2019
• 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
• Torres majored in English literature but dabbled in playwriting.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2020
• 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
• Annual kids’ playwriting festival performance Presented by the Twin Beach Players.
  — Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2017
• Schellhardt oversees the undergraduate playwriting initiative in the Department of Theatre.
  — Annie Alleman, chicagotribune.com, 9 May 2018

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024