A single ill-chosen cast member can wreck the chemistry of a stage comedy, for instance.

Mr. Sakellarios wrote 187 stage comedies and 105 movie scripts during a career that spanned half a century.

The blonde entertainer displayed both her singing and dancing talents in the stage comedy.

The novel's plot is perfectly contoured for a stage comedy of manners.

He later acted in stage comedies to supplement his income.

The film was based on J. M. Barrie's 1902 stage comedy of the same name.

The other is that it was also the inspiration for - of all things - a stage comedy.

Surely this is the only stage comedy in which audience members are reprimanded for laughing ("Stop that!")

These would not seem promising building blocks for a contemporary American stage comedy.