treading the boards
Example Sentences
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Her announcement today paves the way for her treading the boards at the Edinburgh Fringe next month with her one-woman show.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2025
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
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
Garrick, Kemble, Kean, Booth, Cooke, also Rachel, Mrs. Siddons, and a host of illustrious actors of different nations, are now "treading the boards" of spiritual theatres.
From Strange Visitors by Henry J. Horn
