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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
Noun
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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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Now, the proud mom-of-three — and grandmother of two — is making a splash in comedy.—
Katie Mannion,
People.com,
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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Our prayers are with the families, friends, neighbors and everyone affected by this tragedy.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
1 Feb. 2025
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All those aboard the plane were killed in the tragedy.—
Rachel Wolf,
Fox News,
1 Feb. 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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This year, the International frontrunner appears to be Emilia Pérez, a trans-empowerment musical that received 13 Oscar nominations.—
Nate Jones,
Vulture,
1 Feb. 2025
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The 2025 Oscars also marks the second time that two musicals each received 10 or more nominations in the same year.—
Lexy Perez,
The Hollywood Reporter,
31 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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At the heart of Mo, a semi-autobiographical Netflix dramedy from co-creator and star Mo Amer, is the tension between Mo the regular guy and Mo the stateless survivor, a man of estimable charms and abilities who is legally prohibited from establishing a legitimate career.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
3 Feb. 2025
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Too much guileless positivity could lean a little Kimmy Schmidt, but Marcie’s innocence and genuine concern for every character grounds Sweeney’s dramedy from going full-tilt self-loathing.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
24 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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