act curtain

noun

1. Theater.,  a curtain for closing the proscenium opening between acts or scenes.

Example Sentences

It’s Paul who brings down the first act curtain of Selina Fillinger’s rough-and-tumble feminist comedy — and with it, in a way, the patriarchy itself.

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She brings down the first act curtain with coy quiet.

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We could have taken an act break after the winning of the Revolutionary War, and certainly “Yorktown” felt like a fantastic first act curtain, but it was clear we needed to set up the stakes for the second act before letting the audience go.

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I leave my seat the moment the first act curtain starts to fall.

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Mr. Sommer’s wittily appalled Bradley needs to be a shade more menacing for the second act curtain scene to unsettle as it should.

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