stage business

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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

In the nature of such risky stage business, the playful interludes are hit or miss: Stunts are arranged to draw audience members into the play, which embroider the carnival atmosphere but feel a bit halfhearted.

From Washington Post • Apr. 17, 2022

Instead, Ms. Cooper supplies a lot of stage blood and a lot of stage business and dance numbers that look like an especially savage Zumba class.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2019

She could not help thinking it was a clever stage business to release him from the necessity of shaking hands.

From The Prisoner by Brown, Alice