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noun

a person responsible for the technical details of a theatrical production, assisting the director during rehearsal, supervising the lighting, costuming, setting, prompting, etc., and assuming full responsibility for the stage during a performance of a play.

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Origin of stage manager

First recorded in 1810–20

OTHER WORDS FROM stage manager

stage managership, noun

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stage effect, stage fright, stagehand, stage left, stage-manage, stage manager, stage pocket, stager, stage right, stage screw, stage setting

How to use stage manager in a sentence

A live show involves so many makers, night after night—not just actors and dancers and stage managers, but also an army of musicians, electricians, laundry and wardrobe people, and others—that it may be the ultimate act of making.
Inside Broadway's Jubilant Homecoming|Stephanie Zacharek|September 25, 2021|Time
On Thursday, Actors’ Equity, the union representing 51,000 actors and stage managers, announced new protocols requiring vaccinations for its workforce on Broadway and in touring shows that have standalone runs in other cities.
How Broadway is working to ensure covid doesn’t bring the curtain down again|Peter Marks|July 29, 2021|Washington Post
She has been retained by the play’s producers to instruct the company and train stage managers as covid safety officers — in service of putting on a show seven times a week in the midst of a mutating pandemic.
How Broadway is working to ensure covid doesn’t bring the curtain down again|Peter Marks|July 29, 2021|Washington Post
To ensure distancing, stage managers used tape to divvy the studio floors into boxes, each large enough for a dancer.
Alvin Ailey’s ‘Revelations’ has a place of honor in company’s first virtual season|Celia Wren|December 2, 2020|Washington Post

People scream, the orchestra stops playing, and the stage manager whisks the diva into the wings.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The stage manager is a rubber-clad domme and there are various S&M happenings through the night.
Inside London's Underground Burlesque and Fetish Scene|Liza Foreman|August 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Not to curse the stage directions and threaten to send the stage manager to a labor camp.
Kim Jong-un Wants a New Doppler 2000|Kevin Bleyer|June 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Now that we are in the run of the play, our stage manager has the crystal backstage to ward off the boogeyman.
Cynthia Nixon on Bisexuality & Her New Role in ‘Wit’|Kevin Sessums|January 24, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Soon after he got back to England, he began working in the theater as a stage manager and an actor.
Michael Caine Tells His Life Straight|Jacob Bernstein|October 25, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Why, Lil Pendleton and the stage manager are out there in the Pendletons sleigh.
The Girls of Central High on the Stage|Gertrude W. Morrison
As she entered the vestibule the stage-manager came to meet her, and told her that her part had been given to another singer.
Black Diamonds|Mr Jkai
Irving's reputation as a stage manager is such that when his "Macbeth" comes to America everyone will want to see it.
Belford's Magazine, Vol. II, No. 3, February 1889|Various
So, like some famous stage manager, Fate was getting ready to assemble the cast for the final scenes in our little drama.
Gypsy Flight|Roy J. Snell
But when once your stage-manager is chosen, all the actors must make up their minds to obey him implicitly.
The Peace Egg and Other tales|Juliana Horatia Ewing

British Dictionary definitions for stage manager

stage manager

noun

a person who supervises the stage arrangements of a theatrical production

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