treading the boards
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For the first time in 40 years, the artist is treading the boards in Wolverhampton this week for a production of Marie & Rosetta.
From BBC • May 27, 2025
And, in 2016 - a full quarter of a century after last treading the boards - took on the role of King Lear at the Old Vic.
From BBC • Jun. 15, 2023
And now, at age 71, she’s treading the boards in a beloved musical whose initial Broadway run with Carol Channing in 1963 won 10 Tony Awards.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2019
It's the ham actor in a daytime soap opera who dreams of treading the boards for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
From The Guardian • Jul. 11, 2012
You imagine yourself treading the boards and holding all hearts captive with your voice.
From Hetty Wesley by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir