stage business

Example Sentences

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Schumacher “helped build our stage business from the ground up,” Bergman said.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2025

The excessive stage business in “Our Class” often distracts from the story.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2024

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

Or, some sly stage business involving moving library shelves, which provides humor, artful havoc and, briefly, a visual correlative to instrumentals.

From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2022

Her figure is too petite to give effect to heroic characters; but her voice is good, and her stage business soigné.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)