offstage

Ethiopia Habtemariam, the president of Motown Records, has spent the past year assisting her artists in navigating the painful reality of life offstage while retooling album-release plans.

He needed his art because, offstage, the chaos was sometimes too much.

All these folks were full of gripping stories about their time with Pryor, since he created much drama offstage as well as on.

And they never break character, even offstage—at least in front of the press.

The agents of their slide were many, and they operated offstage.

Just offstage, however, stands a nation of unemployed, abandoned and desperate people.

He used even Johnny Simms as an offstage voice repeating stern commands.

And even if he found them, who would believe an actor offstage, delivering such improbable lines?

When Ophelia perishes offstage you don't think of post-mortem lividity or foam on the mouth.

"—caught red-handed with the incriminating papers," shouted an offstage announcer.