How to Use thrust stage in a Sentence

thrust stage

noun

• The center of the excitement, a thrust stage, is made of rich, inlaid wood.
  — Danielle Harling, House Beautiful, 24 Apr. 2021
• The original was beyond rescue, and the new venue features a thrust stage, whereas the Neuhaus is a theater in-the-round.
  — Reggie Ugwu, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017
• The Taper’s thrust stage makes the audience in the show a very visible and very visceral part of the action.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2022
• Crowley’s powerfully simple set of plain screens stands deep down the huge thrust stage, with the audience wrapped around three sides.
  — David Benedict, Variety, 8 Dec. 2021
• On the festival’s deep-thrust stage, the aerial scene in which Billy is partnered by a future vision of himself comes off a bit flat.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 29 July 2019
• The back platform contains a variety of musical instruments, played by the cast of seven, and the thrust stage is covered in layers of rugs.
  — Jerald Pierce, chicagotribune.com, 16 Nov. 2021
• In its place is an intimate thrust stage, a sort of ramp that spills into the audience, surrounded by just a few risers and cabaret tables.
  — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Mar. 2018
• The messaging of Ramos' set is amplified in the Mark Taper Forum, the thrust stage forcing the audience even more directly into the heart of things.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 17 Feb. 2022
• Kokandy’s production, directed here by Lucky Stiff, is even set up to feel like a music venue, with cabaret tables surrounding a thrust stage with a platform at the back.
  — Jerald Pierce, chicagotribune.com, 16 Nov. 2021
• The script isn’t helped by Pasche’s direction and Woongjin Oh’s set design, which forces the bulk of the action far upstage onto platforms, leaving a massive gap between the actors at the back of Stage 773’s thrust stage and the audience.
  — Jerald Pierce, chicagotribune.com, 15 Nov. 2019
• Perhaps Hartford Stage is the wrong space for it, with a thrust stage that doesn’t neatly accommodate old-fashioned proscenium-style living room sets.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 19 Apr. 2022
• The renovation will allow the Rep to configure its main performing space as either a proscenium or thrust stage, increasing the kinds of shows that can be staged there.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 29 Nov. 2022
• The production fits superbly on the Newhouse Theater's sunken thrust stage, while the piece plays like clockwork yet retains an impression of dangerous spontaneity.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2017
• With such an open background to play on, as well as Hartford Stage’s iconic thrust stage, actors can face different directions, approach from great distances and take advantage of a bunch of different ways to come and go from the stage.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 25 Oct. 2021
• The second and final phase encompasses most of the renovations, including adding flexible seating for up to 1,400 people, putting in a thrust stage that would extend into the audience and restoring the black light murals.
  — Madison Iszler, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Nov. 2021
• That maneuver is exponentially amplified at the Taper, where over 700 stadium-style seats surround the thrust stage like a semicircle.
  — Jason Armond, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2022
• The only thing missing — besides easy access to bathrooms, which drew some complaints from audience members — was a time-lapse video showing the towers being turned from a proscenium configuration into a theater in the round or a thrust stage.
  — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 20 Sep. 2017
• The theater itself has undergone modification, with the installation of a thrust stage, one that, as its name implies, extends into the audience more generously.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024