a drama; a play; theater; script of a play

practical joke; prank; to play a practical joke

Western opera; CL:場|场[chang3],齣|出[chu1]

to write a play; scenario; dramatist; screenwriter

a comedy; CL:部[bu4],齣|出[chu1]

theatrical work (play, opera, TV series etc); dramatic (change, increase etc); acute; severe

TV series; TV drama; CL:部[bu4]

(theater, cinema) a musical

farce; CL:場|场[chang3],齣|出[chu1],幕[mu4]

American TV series (abbr. for 美國電視劇|美国电视剧[Mei3 guo2 dian4 shi4 ju4])

tragedy; calamity; atrocity

TV series

stage play; modern drama; CL:臺|台[tai2],部[bu4]

stage play

to intensify

soap opera (loanword)

rapid; sudden

absurd drama; farce; disgraceful show

Beijing opera; CL:場|场[chang3],齣|出[chu1]

Dong opera

to binge-watch (TV)

pantomime; mime show

variant of 侗劇|侗剧[Dong4 ju4]

Sichuan opera

to quit watching a TV series

Yi opera

film and theater; screen and stage

Anhui opera

see 崑曲|昆曲[Kun1 qu3]

a Yuan dynasty form of musical comedy

bourgeois tragedy

Shanghai opera

Xiang opera (Hunan)

to perform a play

anime series

short play; sketch; skit; (neologism, attested by 2020) short-form video drama (esp. episodic videos made for mobile platforms, typically less than 5 minutes per episode)

comedy; farce

Cantonese opera

web series

dance drama; ballet

variety of opera popular in southern Fujian and Taiwan

Puzhou opera of Shanxi Province

Xieju opera (ballad and dancing monologue, popular in Sichuan)

fun and mockery

Henan opera

Shaoxing opera

farce

becoming acute; to exacerbate

to watch a TV series etc regularly; to binge-watch