A well-written but untheatrical play.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : theatrical performances. ,a theatrical display of grief.    From Dictionary.com. 

Noun : a family of renowned theatricals.    From Dictionary.com. 

He made curious, untheatrical gestures that seemed to have some kind of significance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Fool]

The new numbers that she's written for "9 to 5," sad to say, are slick and untheatrical.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End of a Long Wait] Reference

Mr. Keller is tall, thin, untheatrical and preoccupied with the cook's alchemical ability to transform food and turn it into visual art without ever losing fundamental tastes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fat Chef, Thin Chef] Reference

Here you may read how, after the short agony of nerves was over, he faced death with a placid and untheatrical bravery, than which the long records of the scaffold show nothing finer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914] Reference

All of the poets — save, perhaps, Simic — spoke with the ease and eloquence of those who have spent years in the classroom; at points one did feel oneself in the presence of teachers, but mostly the tone was personal, autobiographical, untheatrical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poets Forum (Part 1) : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference

At the start of his latest narcissistic monologue, Morning, Noon, and Night at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center, the ex-radical stunned us all with the solemn, somewhat untheatrical announcement: "I will be signing copies of my book in the lobby after the show.".    From Wordnik.com.  [And the Heilpern Awards For 1999 Theater Go to ���] Reference

And he was noticeably and wholly untheatrical about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin] Reference

Feder's features are refined, her voice light, her diction even and untheatrical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ottawa Sun] Reference

Backup safety Derrick Martin explained that Capers 'untheatrical personality is important.    From Wordnik.com.  [JSOnline.com] Reference

Some of it had the untheatrical feel of a straightforward concert, albeit sung without scores.    From Wordnik.com.  [Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk] Reference

It was too untheatrical to be acting; too individual to be imitation; to unself-conscious to have been acquired.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jimgrim and Allah's Peace] Reference

Sane marriage is an untheatrical thing; it is therefore not surprising that most modern dramatists have devoted themselves to insane marriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Bernard Shaw] Reference

Beethoven wrote only utterly untheatrical music for the theatre, and it was from Weber and not Beethoven he had to learn his art of theatre music.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard Wagner Composer of Operas] Reference

Merrilies, with a face of peculiar, square form, most amiable in expression, and so very untheatrical in manner and bearing that I should never suspect her to be an actress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memories of Hawthorne] Reference

The piece is overcharged with mythology and rural painting, is untheatrical, and so far from pourtraying the genuine ideality of a pastoral world, it even contains the greatest vulgarities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature] Reference

In a country where people did not care for the outward show of life, where the genius of the people was untheatrical, and they exclusively regarded the substance of things, this matter would be trifling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English Constitution] Reference

Is it not true, that there is in the very substance of the English mind, that which naturally predisposes us to sympathy with the Drama, and this though we are perhaps the most untheatrical of all people?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saint's Tragedy] Reference

The two comments serve the same dramatic function: they acknowledge the fact that the subject matter is an apparently untheatrical one, and set the dramatist the challenge of proving this not to be the case.    From Wordnik.com.  [Le Monde diplomatique - English edition] Reference

Wagner, like Weber, wrote theatrical music for the theatre, whilst Beethoven wrote only utterly untheatrical music for the theatre, and it was from Weber and not Beethoven he had to learn his art of theatre music.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard Wagner]

Lord Dufferin adds: 'One of his most charming characteristics was that he was so simple, so untheatrical, so genuine, that his existence, at least when I knew him, flowed at a very high level of thought and feeling, but was unmarked by anything very dramatic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord John Russell] Reference

This was an undertaking well-nigh impossible, for its very trend is untheatrical; like Penelope, I, too, have ceaselessly woven and unwoven it for a year; and in the process I have learned much, though, I fear, I have not perfectly attained the end which I had in view.    From Wordnik.com.  [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes] Reference

My reservations notwithstanding, this was a musically inspired performance (Pappano in charge) to be savoured and remembered - and one that does nothing to counter my conviction that, despite its clumsy construction (Boito's late revision of Piave's libretto can't overcome completely the opera's awkward and untheatrical structure).    From Wordnik.com.  [Gramophone] Reference