Related Clues:

• Get all histrionic
• Play act
• Be hammy
• Play to the back of the audience
• Steal the scene, say
• Act amateurishly
• Show one's feelings
• Engage in cabotinage
• Try to steal the scene, maybe
• Play broadly
• Turn on the waterworks, maybe
• Act to excess
• Tread the boards broadly
• Show too much feeling?
• Play the ham