downstage
Americanadverb
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noun
adverb
adjective
noun
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
Kushner remembers how moments before the final confrontation between Biff and Willy Loman in “Death of a Salesman” Garfield would walk downstage and smoke a cigarette, leaning into a spot of red light.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2021
Martin is standing downstage left, telling a story to Abby and using lots of twitchy gestures.
From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli
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