treading the boards
Example Sentences
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Her announcement today paves the way for her treading the boards at the Edinburgh Fringe next month with her one-woman show.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2025
“It’s as much fun as it looks,” he says, adding that he can’t really give advice to his former small-screen sibling about treading the boards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2025
Had she been treading the boards a few hundred years ago, there is little doubt Welch would indeed have been unafraid to give the Bard a piece of her mind.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2024
Even over the holiday season, when in years past tourists have flocked to see Hollywood stars treading the boards, that show was pulling in less than a third of its potential gross.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 18, 2013
Garrick, Kemble, Kean, Booth, Cooke, also Rachel, Mrs. Siddons, and a host of illustrious actors of different nations, are now "treading the boards" of spiritual theatres.
From Strange Visitors by Henry J. Horn
