stage business

Example Sentences

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Schumacher “helped build our stage business from the ground up,” Bergman said.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2025

Another part of his success was his ability to negotiate intricate stage business in an opera in which the action can become so complicated that almost nobody can follow it.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2023

Or, some sly stage business involving moving library shelves, which provides humor, artful havoc and, briefly, a visual correlative to instrumentals.

From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2022

Outside of the big numbers, all carried off robustly, it is not, perhaps, as suave as it might be; the pacing is sometimes erratic, the stage business stereotypical.

From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2018

I finished the play in September, and Mr. Frohman was so far pleased with it that he promised to find a playwright who understood stage business to work with me.

From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston