act curtain

American  

noun

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

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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.

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2022

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2017

She finds it desirable and, until the second act curtain, possible to accept all three simultaneously.

From Time Magazine Archive

So theatrically threadbare is this narrative scheme that it takes an ignited dish of red fire to bring down the first act curtain, an off-stage explosion to close Act II.

From Time Magazine Archive

The act curtain and the asbestos curtain are raised.

From The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession by Wayburn, Ned