treading the boards
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But both are experienced in and evidently pretty adept at treading the boards as well, the critics said.
From BBC • Dec. 13, 2021
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
British actress Thandie Newton will also be treading the boards this autumn, this time in a revival of the Ariel Dorfman play Death and the Maiden.
From BBC • Jul. 22, 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
