downstage
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noun
adverb
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of downstage
Vocabulary lists containing downstage
Theater - Introductory
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Theater - Middle School
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Cave would often make a mad dash between his piano and downstage, making a show of it as he danced his fingers across the keys.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2025
At one point, during “Be a Lion,” an encouraging song sung to the cowardly lion, Corn’s Dorothy walks downstage toward the audience.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2022
Biden walked in and, relatively unceremoniously, sat downstage right.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2022
Claudia McNeil in the original “Raisin in the Sun,” falling on her knees, downstage center, at the end of Act One, looking to God for guidance after learning that the family’s entire savings were gone.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2020
Farther downstage Maxine Grossinger stood with a blank look on her face.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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