stage play

A stage play is a scripted dramatic performance presented live by actors on a theater stage before an audience.

Observed surface forms (26)

• theatrical work ×28
• theatrical production ×15
• Broadway play ×13
• comedy play ×12
• stage comedy ×12
• one-act play ×4
• satirical play ×4
• theatrical play ×4
• American play ×3
• stage adaptation ×3

• verse drama ×3
• Broadway play production ×2
• English Renaissance play ×2
• LGBT-related play ×2
• theatrical adaptation ×2
• Broadway play cycle ×1
• German-language play ×1
• Jacobean play ×1
• Living Newspaper production ×1
• ancient Greek comedy play ×1
• biographical play ×1
• contemporary play ×1
• drama theatre ×1
• historical play ×1
• monodrama ×1
• romantic comedy play ×1

Instances (114)

• Clyde's
• Le Rêve – The Dream via concept surface "theatrical production"
• Everybody Comes to Rick's
• Michael Frayn
  surface form: Noises Off
• Color Struck via concept surface "one-act play"
• Once in a Lifetime
• The Man Who Came to Dinner
• Light Up the Sky
• My Fair Lady (stage direction) via concept surface "theatrical production"
• I Am Listening via concept surface "theatrical work"
• George Washington Slept Here
• Light Up the Sky (Broadway play) via concept surface "Broadway play"
  surface form: Light Up the Sky
• The American Way (pageant/play) via concept surface "theatrical play"
  surface form: The American Way
• Christopher Blake (play)
• I Am Listening (play)
  surface form: I Am Listening
• Act One (Broadway adaptation by James Lapine, source author) via concept surface "Broadway play"
  surface form: Act One
• Once in a Lifetime (co-written with George S. Kaufman)
  surface form: Once in a Lifetime
• You Can't Take It with You (co-written with George S. Kaufman)
  surface form: You Can't Take It with You
• George Washington Slept Here (co-written with George S. Kaufman) via concept surface "stage comedy"
  surface form: George Washington Slept Here
• Once in a Lifetime (satire of Hollywood)
  surface form: Once in a Lifetime
• Strange Interlude via concept surface "theatrical work"
• The Skin of Our Teeth via concept surface "theatrical work"
• You Can't Take It with You via concept surface "comedy play"
• The American Way via concept surface "theatrical play"
• The American Way (co-written with George S. Kaufman) via concept surface "theatrical work"
  surface form: The American Way
• Philip Barry
  surface form: The Philadelphia Story
• Washington Square
  surface form: The Heiress
• Justice
• Strife
• The Skin Game via concept surface "theatrical work"
• The Teahouse of the August Moon
• Picasso at the Lapin Agile
• A Streetcar Named Desire via concept surface "theatrical work"
• Henry IV, Part 2
• Do I Hear a Waltz?
  surface form: The Time of the Cuckoo
• J.B. via concept surface "verse drama"
• The Amen Corner via concept surface "theatrical work"
• Blues for Mister Charlie
• Morning Glory
  surface form: Morning Glory (play)
• Shadowlands
• Look Back in Anger
• Murray Burnett
  surface form: Everybody Comes to Rick's
• Drawn to Life presented by Cirque du Soleil and Disney via concept surface "theatrical production"
• A Raisin in the Sun
• Roadside via concept surface "stage comedy"
• The Cherokee Night via concept surface "theatrical work"
• The Humans (play) via concept surface "one-act play"
  surface form: The Humans
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Broadway production) via concept surface "Broadway play"
• A Raisin in the Sun (2014 Broadway revival) via concept surface "theatrical production"
• The History Boys (Broadway production) via concept surface "Broadway play production"