stagecraft

Example Sentences

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The show is buoyed by its classic stagecraft, with flats, escape stairs and rolling platforms.

From Los Angeles Times

Performance and illusion are recurring themes: A woman is sawed in half in a depiction of classic stagecraft; elsewhere a juggler manipulates ovoids that each contain an everyday vignette.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Incorrigibles could not help but think about him as they fashioned their disguises, for Simon was a man of the theater, skilled in the art of stagecraft.

From Literature

Penelope was not a playwright, like Simon, but she had once attended nearly all of the first act of a show in the West End, so she was no stranger to stagecraft, either.

From Literature

But perhaps the most consequential gesture of his appearance came when Mamdani, whose mother is a celebrated filmmaker, showed off his command of stagecraft.

From Salon