offstage
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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
The tales give insight into the lives they live offstage and their perspectives as Asian Americans that inspire so much of their material.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026
Tsuruko, the eldest, stays largely offstage but exerts a crucial, conservative influence on family affairs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
We’re not shielded from the horrors, but they almost always happen offstage, implied or alluded to in the sudden vanishing of a loved one or a mournful reference to a death.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026
I really want to walk offstage, go back to my seat, and replay the moment that just happened with Isaac and me, but I know I have to go along.
From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan
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Reading: Literature - Drama - Introductory
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Theater - Introductory
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Reading: Literature - Drama - Middle School
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