offstage
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Also new to the story is Independence, Kan., itself, which in the book is an offstage place to which Pa will sometimes go to fetch necessities, disappearing from the story until he returns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
That ethos of care extended beyond their interactions with the audience and into the way they interacted with one another offstage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
Then, he satirizes conservatives’ discomfort with his Blackness by sitting silently as Martin Short, playing a nervous young Republican delivering a hackneyed diatribe, shudders in his presence before scampering offstage to fall apart.
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2026
When he finished, he simply wandered into the darkness offstage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
There are other teams huddled offstage, on the floor.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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Reading: Literature - Drama - Introductory
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Theater - Introductory
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Reading: Literature - Drama - Middle School
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