How to Use restage in a Sentence

restage

verb
  • In 1997, the event was canceled and restaged to a small audience after a bomb scare threatened the original date.
    Leila Sackur, NBC News, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Despite the invasion, the couple and their families decided to proceed as planned with their wedding date — but restage the event across the world, in New York.
    New York Times, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Why not restage Judy Garland's legendary 1961 Carnegie Hall performance?
    Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 31 July 2020
  • DuVernay restaged a Nazi book-burning rally in Berlin’s Bebelplatz.
    Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Mitzi describes her young son’s desire to restage DeMille as a way to control a chaotic situation.
    Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Scott’s Napoleon restages the couple’s meeting as an encounter at a party where both are outsiders observing French high society.
    Nathan Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Andrea Weber, one of the few choreographers authorized to restage the works of the late dance visionary Merce Cunningham.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The art dealer Yvon Lambert invited her to restage the exhibition in his New York gallery — not as a curatorial gesture but as an artwork in its own right.
    New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021
  • In a theatrical revision from the original sequence of events, the scene is restaged in an austere church and features Napoleon violently slapping his former wife.
    Nathan Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Although that work was written specifically for that setting and that instrument, Swed notes that if Chacon were looking to restage the work, Southern California is home to a couple of the world’s largest church organs.
    Carolina A. Mirandacolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2022
  • But the opera, which centers around the days leading up to the Trinity test and culminates in the detonation of the first atomic bomb, was rapturously received by critics and has been restaged several times since its debut.
    Andy Kifer, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2023
  • The David Zwirner gallery recently restaged a Diane Arbus retrospective.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Lee’s dream became to restage that photo, documenting the momentous contribution of Chinese workers who never got their due.
    Alexandra Tatarsky, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2021
  • But the intention of the production, directed and restaged by Wayne Cilento, was explicitly to claim Fosse for the pantheon of pure dance geniuses like Robbins, as if storytelling were an impurity.
    Brian Seibert, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • Directors and creative teams will be able to iterate on visual effects and CG enhancements interactively and to immediately restage digital sets, make lighting changes, adjust camera angles and more.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Director and choreographer Hector Guerrero will restage the original choreography.
    Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2021

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