treading the boards
Example Sentences
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“It’s as much fun as it looks,” he says, adding that he can’t really give advice to his former small-screen sibling about treading the boards.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2025
And, in 2016 - a full quarter of a century after last treading the boards - took on the role of King Lear at the Old Vic.
From BBC • Jun. 15, 2023
Even over the holiday season, when in years past tourists have flocked to see Hollywood stars treading the boards, that show was pulling in less than a third of its potential gross.
From The Guardian • Jan. 18, 2013
Knightley is currently treading the boards in London's West End, playing a schoolteacher in a revival of 1934 play The Children's Hour.
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2011
Brichanteau is charming because he is always treading the boards, because he believes in good faith that his life is a drama, in which he plays the principal part.
From The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Ives, George Burnham
