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
But both are experienced in and evidently pretty adept at treading the boards as well, the critics said.
From BBC • Dec. 13, 2021
Dame Diana enjoyed further success treading the boards once again in Mother Courage.
From BBC • Sep. 10, 2020
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
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 Horn, Henry J.
