onstage

[on-steyj, awn-]

adverb

1. on or onto the stage (offstage ).

   The director shouted, “Onstage, everybody!”

adjective

1. of, relating to, or used in the acting area, or that part of the stage that is in view of the audience.

Word History and Origins

Origin of onstage¹

First recorded in 1925–30; on + stage

Example Sentences

Another section features artifacts and photographs from Ono’s “Cut Piece,” where she sat onstage and invited the audience to come and cut away parts of her outfit.

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But as Wicks fell to the floor, Jud was onstage clutching a 6-foot cross and each of the other potential suspects was seated primly in their seats.

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She also offers practical advice: “If you can’t laugh about it, it’s too soon to bring it onstage.”

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Shortly before filming on that project commenced, he remembers, he had lunch with Isabelle Huppert, who had just seen Reinsve onstage in Oslo and raved about “this one young actor in the purple dress.”

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I’ve met enough artists who say, “I feel totally myself onstage,” to know that there’s a natural state in which people feel comfortable up there.

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