How to Use downstage in a Sentence

downstage

noun

• The cast spends most of their time downstage, front and center.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2022
• And then, at the precise right moment, U2's drummer, Larry Mullen Jr., walks downstage to the drum kit.
  — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 5 Sep. 2017
• At the finale, the entire cast and both designers brought out chairs and posed as a group, Christmas-card style, downstage.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Feb. 2023
• Racine and Anaia open the play downstage center, in glaring light, positioned in a way that invites — no, dares — us to stare at them.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2018
• Baryshnikov's route to the stage takes him through a door at the back of the structure, across its near-empty interior, and finally out a downstage set of doors.
  — Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 3 Feb. 2018
• But instead of bringing the action and minimal set downstage, everything is moved to the wall furthest from the seats.
  — Lee Williams, OregonLive.com, 18 June 2017
• Once the opera gets started, all the activity is downstage, leaving a dark, empty space behind.
  — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2020
• The shows are being held at Three Brothers Theatre's smaller downstage theater.
  — Sheryl Devore, Lake County News-Sun, 23 Jan. 2018
• With Swanilda, the diagonal is a retreat (downstage right to upstage left); its charm lies in how very little her upper body does and in how that little makes magic.
  — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 31 May 2018
• Clair marshaled the combined forces of the singers, the orchestra and the Pacific Chorale efficiently under trying circumstances – his back is to the action, most of which happens in a small downstage sandbox.
  — Orange County Register, 24 Feb. 2017
• There’s the stage with different acoustics upstage and downstage, the orchestra level seating area, under the balcony, which is an extremely deep area with a low ceiling, and the upper balcony.
  — oregonlive, 27 Sep. 2021
• After Lapine confuses upstage and downstage and gives inappropriately harsh notes, Grammer, who plays several small roles, reams the director out in front of the company.
  — New York Times, 28 July 2021
• At one point, there’s a misplaced spotlight, illuminating nobody, and a performer well downstage of it, looking at it like a member of the audience, regards the empty circle with something resembling suspicion.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 July 2022
• Since the 18th century, orchestras have relied on the leadership of a single individual standing downstage center and waving a baton, sculpting the sound to their preference.
  — Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 7 Nov. 2019
• Tesshi Nakagawa’s scenic design focuses attention on the handsome downstage dining area.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2022
• The piece ends with a massive, rectangular plank, with a relatively small square cut out at one end, tipping over and toward associate artistic director and longtime company performer Cassandre Joseph, standing downstage.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2021
• Throughout the two-hour program, Mr. Springsteen appeared as approachable and amiable, occasionally wandering downstage to address the assembly.
  — Jim Fusilli, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2017
• The cast spends most of their time downstage, front and center.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2022
• And then, at the precise right moment, U2's drummer, Larry Mullen Jr., walks downstage to the drum kit.
  — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 5 Sep. 2017
• At the finale, the entire cast and both designers brought out chairs and posed as a group, Christmas-card style, downstage.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Feb. 2023
• Racine and Anaia open the play downstage center, in glaring light, positioned in a way that invites — no, dares — us to stare at them.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2018
• Baryshnikov's route to the stage takes him through a door at the back of the structure, across its near-empty interior, and finally out a downstage set of doors.
  — Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 3 Feb. 2018
• But instead of bringing the action and minimal set downstage, everything is moved to the wall furthest from the seats.
  — Lee Williams, OregonLive.com, 18 June 2017
• Once the opera gets started, all the activity is downstage, leaving a dark, empty space behind.
  — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2020
• The shows are being held at Three Brothers Theatre's smaller downstage theater.
  — Sheryl Devore, Lake County News-Sun, 23 Jan. 2018
• With Swanilda, the diagonal is a retreat (downstage right to upstage left); its charm lies in how very little her upper body does and in how that little makes magic.
  — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 31 May 2018
• Clair marshaled the combined forces of the singers, the orchestra and the Pacific Chorale efficiently under trying circumstances – his back is to the action, most of which happens in a small downstage sandbox.
  — Orange County Register, 24 Feb. 2017
• There’s the stage with different acoustics upstage and downstage, the orchestra level seating area, under the balcony, which is an extremely deep area with a low ceiling, and the upper balcony.
  — oregonlive, 27 Sep. 2021
• After Lapine confuses upstage and downstage and gives inappropriately harsh notes, Grammer, who plays several small roles, reams the director out in front of the company.
  — New York Times, 28 July 2021
• At one point, there’s a misplaced spotlight, illuminating nobody, and a performer well downstage of it, looking at it like a member of the audience, regards the empty circle with something resembling suspicion.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 July 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024