Overcome by the sheer theatricality of it, the precarious control I had been hoarding suddenly snapped.

For sheer theatricality and scale, the TriBeCa Grand Hotel is a good bet, as is the other Grand, the SoHo, up the way.

There is sheer theatricality, for example.

But that flaw is not lethal to this grand production, which luxuriates in the sheer theatricality of Chekhov's imagination and totally absorbs one - even for more than three hours.

Wilder brings Grover's Corners vividly to life through sheer theatricality.

But for sheer theatricality, he would probably have enjoyed the "Romeo and Juliet" that Joseph Papp has imported from Mexico for his Festival Latino.

What is new this year is the sheer theatricality of the approach.

Mr. Wadsworth intensifies the sheer theatricality of one of the most sheerly theatrical plays ever written.

For sheer theatricality and tension, the offstage gallows humor and truly hysterical good times of a valiant cast surpasses the performance of Mr. Ludwig's play on stage.

Few musical books deliver such urgency and no leading lady is drawn with the complexity or the sheer theatricality of Rose.