upstage

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Instead, there is smoke and vivid use of light—in the most dramatic sequences, such as the fire, a wall-size blaze of color angles forward from a bank of instruments on the floor upstage.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

On the day of the event, she said, she and her friends weren’t there to provoke Kirk, or to upstage him.

From Slate • Oct. 30, 2025

“Any time Dennis could upstage Mike, he’d do it,” Jardine tells The Times.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2024

During the climactic moment, a giant load-in door in the upstage wall slowly rose like a curtain onto West 45th Street, which pulsated with color and life.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2023

It hung and moved with majesty in folds like an infinite traveler upstage in an infinite theater.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck