treading the boards
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Dame Diana enjoyed further success treading the boards once again in Mother Courage.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2020
That's because the 33-year-old is treading the boards in New York in a revival of the one-woman show that started the whole phenomenon in 2013.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2019
And now, at age 71, she’s treading the boards in a beloved musical whose initial Broadway run with Carol Channing in 1963 won 10 Tony Awards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2019
It's the ham actor in a daytime soap opera who dreams of treading the boards for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2012
"Ah, would that I were back again, treading the boards in my beloved Shakespeare, instead of in this miserable moving picture acting," sighed the tragedian.
From The Moving Picture Girls Under the Palms Or Lost in the Wilds of Florida by Laura Lee Hope
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