stage directions
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Today, to gauge a film’s potential, Macy aims to read scripts in one sitting and skips over the stage directions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025
Thornton Wilder, whose “Our Town” is the most famous dramatic inheritor of Winesburg’s legacy, cautioned in his stage directions that the play “should be performed without sentimentality or ponderousness — simply, dryly and sincerely.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2024
The title of “Enter Ghost” is drawn from William Shakespeare’s stage directions, when King Hamlet’s ghost commands his son to seek justice in their rotten kingdom.
From Washington Post • Apr. 4, 2023
In the stage directions to “Lonely Stardust,” Hairston describes how she wants her audience to relate to her play.
From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2023
His scripts—for that is what they were—were meticulously detailed, and came complete with stage directions.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
