How to Use stage direction in a Sentence

stage direction

noun

• And then there’s this beautiful stage direction that Jesse wrote in the script of Tom and Shiv in the car.
  — Krystie Lee Yandoli, Rolling Stone, 29 May 2023
• What’s the protocol when a stage direction calls for a kiss?
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 8 July 2020
• What’s the most famous stage direction in all of Shakespeare’s canon?
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2019
• Then the screenplay then cuts off in the middle of the action, with the final stage direction left hanging.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2021
• Did Damon and Nick’s stage direction describe a lot of the action beats?
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2020
• Did your stage direction include all the fun action moments like bouncing the bat on the ground or lighting a biker’s beard on fire?
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2020
• But the real revelations are found in the stage direction and screenplay notes.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Aug. 2019
• Fans of William Shakespeare will recognize the phrase as one of the most famous stage directions in history.
  — OregonLive.com, 5 Feb. 2018
• Strong: Jesse Armstrong, the writer, had written this stage direction that there’s a moment where Kendall’s up on the top of the boat and finds out definitively that his father is gone.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
• With such a text-heavy play, Meadow must make sure that each prop, sound cue and stage direction supports what the characters are saying onstage.
  — Sonia Weiser, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2020
• The lack of a set will be offset by characters in costume and stage direction that allows them to interact with each other.
  — Anthony Barcellos, sacbee, 4 May 2018
• Rhea Perlman's Carla Tortelli is supposed to be in her 20s, according to the stage directions.
  — Eric Webb, USA TODAY, 5 June 2023
• Across the stage, in a studio of his own, is the visual artist Blake Habermann, who quickly scribbles stage directions, mountains, and rays of sunshine onto a blackboard.
  — Vulture, 23 May 2023
• Producers shifted the stage direction for the final act so Hunt could sit atop a table placed at center stage — the main loft location in Rent — with his right foot propped up on a chair.
  — Lesley Goldberg, Billboard, 27 Jan. 2019
• Some sentences are presented to us in italics, as stage directions.
  — Priscilla Gilman, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
• The slumbering bodies are arranged in tableau fashion, as the stage directions prescribe.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 10 May 2018
• Martin Riker’s The Guest Lecture begins with a paragraph of stage direction, establishing the scene that will make up the entirety of the novel.
  — Meghan O’Gieblyn, The New York Review of Books, 2 Mar. 2023
• The cast at his mercy includes new actors such as Dennis (Sayer), who can’t memorize text and is given oversized headsets to feed him lines and stage directions.
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 20 Apr. 2023
• Small said a favorite course was introduction to theater, exposing him to texts, playwrights and stage directions.
  — Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 24 May 2018
• Any tickle is documented, like a stage direction that everybody else can see.
  — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• Galella studied acting and stage direction in California and worked as a photographer in the air force during the Korean War.
  — Sasha Urban, Variety, 2 May 2022
• The play’s title refers to a theatrical stage direction indicating sounds coming from backstage.
  — Julia M. Klein, Philly.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• Dominic Fryers, a teacher, gave stage directions as children playing Roman soldiers mimicked nailing the child playing Jesus to a cross.
  — Megan Specia Andrew Testa, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023
• Hopefully whoever plays Hedda also does the bear who causes that famous exeunt, chased by stage direction.
  — Vulture, 31 Aug. 2022
• His blurting out of his political stage directions was a vintage moment of Trumpian indiscretion.
  — Jonathan Martin, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2017
• Matthew Ozawa’s stage direction underscored the point, keeping all eyes trained on the soprano, with small supporting roles and chorus consistently deflecting to her.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 27 Nov. 2019
• Serviceable stage direction was by Rebecca Choate Beasley.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 9 Mar. 2020
• The stage direction, by Ophelie Wolf, lacks precision — characters walk up stairs to a bridge along the back of the stage for no apparent reason and little emotional moments that could enhance the familiar plot are seemingly overlooked.
  — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• The malleability of his stage directions reflects the flexibility of the surroundings.
  — Jeremy D. Goodwin, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• Hammerstein then proceeded to go through every stage direction, every song, every scene, every line of dialogue.
  — Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024