offstage

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Thoughtful and easygoing offstage, Peaches’ seemingly rebellious onstage shenanigans are hardly a reaction to her upbringing.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

Then, he satirizes conservatives’ discomfort with his Blackness by sitting silently as Martin Short, playing a nervous young Republican delivering a hackneyed diatribe, shudders in his presence before scampering offstage to fall apart.

From Salon • Feb. 22, 2026

Yeah, the crowd loves it, but I go offstage and I’m not looking for the comments saying, “It was so funny.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2025

I walked offstage and I said to myself, “You don’t have to do it anymore.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025

The urge to run was like one of those big hooks that came out in cartoons to yank people offstage.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz