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As in commedia dell'arte, they are always open for creative additions and dislocations, continually encouraging the actors to improvise, which means that the audience is activated in a remarkable way.

Nobel Prize for Literature 1997 - Press Release 1997

Their wacky brand of physical comedy took its inspiration from a classic European theater style called commedia dell'arte.

KUOW 94.9 Puget Sound Public Radio 2010

The camp combines classical theater forms such as commedia dell'arte with the great outdoors, performing at spaces such as Skyland Amphitheatre in the Shenandoah Valley.

Appreciating the tenor of opera company life 2010

Pag cleverly uses a commedia dell'arte troupe to enact a verismo tragedy.

Top 50 operas 2011

I am sorry to say that stereotypes are rooted in reality and, like the figures of commedia dell'arte, the roles of women in Italian society are fixed.

Frederic Whyte: The Long-Overdue Demise of Silvio Berlusconi Frederic Whyte 2011

Michael Yeargen's set—inspired by pictures of a 17th-century Italian theater and commedia dell'arte—featured a raised wooden platform, candles for stage lighting, visible weights and pulleys for scenery changes, onstage devices for generating thunder and lightning, and an ancient, doddering stage manager who cued assistants and cranked levers.

A Naughty Romp From Rossini Heidi Waleson 2011

Finally, it will be hard to resist Company XIV Pinocchio: A Fantasy Of Pleasures, a wildly improbable mix of baroque ballet, commedia dell'arte, street dance and Fellini-esque surrealism that re-invents the familiar fairytale.

This week's new dance 2011

It quickly succumbed to all kinds of influences, theatrical (commedia dell'arte, for example) and musical (the exotic harmonies and instrumentation of Eastern music, say); with the rise of professional singers, composers were irresistibly drawn to an exploration of the extreme possibilities of the human voice.

'Opera has never been more alive' | Simon Callow 2011

The seriousness with which the elder Pisoni mentored his son helped to build a solid appreciation for craft and precision as well as the history and tradition of clowning from the early days of the commedia dell'arte to the present.

George Heymont: Once More With Feeling George Heymont 2012

Director's Addition: The commedia del arte technique known as "lazzi," comic bits of action and accident that develop throughout the show.

Five Acts in the Summer of the Bard Pia Catton 2011