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The first in a 10-part cycle of works named In Eldersfield: Elegy for Paul Dirac will theatricalise some of the more extraordinary moments of Dirac's strange life and theories in what should be a challenging event; as awkward and unique as the man himself.

Having replaced the original Superstar director with a brief to "theatricalise" the oratorio, which had already played concert performances all over America, O'Horgan filled the stage with huge angels swinging on psychedelic wings across shimmering, surreal sets, laser beams, dancing dwarves and lepers, and a crucifixion scene set on a dazzling golden triangle.

But since it's a piece of theater, we had to theatricalize it a little bit more."

Her success has always been to theatricalize folk material without souping it up.

Just how much can you theatricalize them without betraying the autobiography that is, presumably, their reason for being?

The trick is to theatricalize folk or social dances, to make them spectator material.

Their very different companies often theatricalize folk material.

They have yet to clarify the extent to which they wish to theatricalize their sources.

Everything conspires to theatricalize movement through space, to contrast dark and light, high and low, inside and out.

It would be easy to say that such technical points are for specialists, but Mr. Cunningham knows how to theatricalize movement on a formal level.

It may be fun to do but it is not a spectator sport - unless you theatricalize the material the way folk dance companies do.

Mr. Holder's tour de force is to theatricalize a voodoo funeral rite, not merely to transpose it onstage.

"All I did," Mr. von Sternberg said, "was theatricalize her charms and make them visible to everyone."

Where we've tried to theatricalize naturalistic cinematic language, 'La Bohème' will be less theatrical and more cinematic.

His staging, filled with exaggerated posturing, strutting, gesticulating and flitting about, as it is, isn't quite showy enough to theatricalize all that ornate language.

Lacking the bold strokes to theatricalize it, Gitta Honegger's staging distances us from Leopold's plight.

Unlike Ms. Yass, Ms. Dabbour doesn't theatricalize her subject.

Yet when each was asked to create a theater piece that would visualize or "theatricalize" his own esthetic as a painter, each chose to use dancers and music.

By the end, Mr. Blessing has not found the voice to theatricalize the tragedy of Kimberly Bergalis, or the resonance, or "something that's evocative."

The secret, she confides to her readers, was that "I began to theatricalize what I sold," drawing on her training as an actor with Sanford Meisner.

Like Kafig, the French group that uses the break-dance idiom in abstract form, Mr. Harris has created pieces that theatricalize this vocabulary.

Here the Hebrew letters that introduce every verse of the Lamentations and the fact that the text is sung in Latin similarly universalize and theatricalize the stage action.

"Vogel tends to select sensitive, difficult, fraught issues to theatricalize," theatre theorist Jill Dolan comments, "and to spin them with a dramaturgy that's at once creative, highly imaginative, and brutally honest."

"And with Broadway's high ticket prices, people want to feel like they saw a full show - so you have to theatricalize it, give it an underlying metaphor or a larger vision and make the songs accumulate emotionally."

Verdon seemed to embody his beliefs, and working together they created a new dance vocabulary, one that combined athleticism and the mysteries of female sexuality to theatricalize the beauty of how women moved in the everyday world.

But Valerie Harper is Valerie Harper in "The Dragon and the Pearl," an ill-conceived attempt to theatricalize the life of Pearl S. Buck whose prodigious humanitarianism has far outranked her literary reputation.

To theatricalize the colloquy, Mr. Belgrader and Ms. Barc add their own interpolations, some of them linguistic (Donald Trump joins a line of geniuses that includes Caesar and Copernicus), some of them kinetic.