stage door
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of stage door
First recorded in 1770–80
Example Sentences
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Josie said she met Sleep in person years earlier, outside York Theatre Royal's stage door, to give him paintings of the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky which she had created herself.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2025
After she signs in at the stage door, she’s handed a flower bouquet sent by her agent and manager.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2025
There are few movies, and almost no musicals, that depict the nasty way that fascism tends to sneak in through the stage door before announcing itself in the spotlight like 1972’s “Cabaret.”
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2025
On a late-spring day in 2018, when the New York Philharmonic was deep in rehearsals of a Strauss symphony, an unexpected visitor showed up at the stage door of David Geffen Hall, the Philharmonic’s home.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2023
He took her to the stage door of a theater given over to Broadway shows on the first lap of the road.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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