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
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
Brown and Barnard don’t meld as seamlessly with their characters as Horne does with his, and once in a while they make bits of stage business look contrived instead of spontaneous.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 19, 2021
All of it matters: singing, concept, sets, costumes, lighting, stage direction and stage business.
From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2017
Here he became acquainted with Mr. Joseph Younger, who was at the time prompter at Covent Garden theatre, and though no actor himself, knew stage business as well as any man in England.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)
