act curtain

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It’s Paul who brings down the first act curtain of Selina Fillinger’s rough-and-tumble feminist comedy — and with it, in a way, the patriarchy itself.

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2022

I leave my seat the moment the first act curtain starts to fall.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2017

She finds it desirable and, until the second act curtain, possible to accept all three simultaneously.

From Time Magazine Archive

So theatrically threadbare is this narrative scheme that it takes an ignited dish of red fire to bring down the first act curtain, an off-stage explosion to close Act II.

From Time Magazine Archive

These are hung at intervals of about six feet, the first being about that distance back of the act curtain and the others spaced about every six feet to the back wall of the stage.

From The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession by Wayburn, Ned