afterpiece

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Their antics earned the notice of Billboard magazine, whose reviewer wrote, “Martin and Lewis do an afterpiece that has all the makings of a sock act,” using showbiz slang for a successful show.

From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2017

Tales My Father Taught Me, the latest entry in this sibling revelry, is an afterpiece entirely devoted to his patrician papa.

From Time Magazine Archive

Unknowingly, he has already been betrayed by a Judas among his disciples who, in an afterpiece to the fable, tries to free himself of the ownership and taint of the 30 pieces of silver.

From Time Magazine Archive

We still speculated indolently as to the nature of the afterpiece in which we assumed this ex-hero of our comedy might yet appear.

From The Collectors by Mather, Frank Jewett

Dismissed from the Stranger, however, the stage-book probably reappears in the afterpiece.

From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Cook, Dutton