stage time

[stayj tahym]

noun

1. the time spent on stage by a performer, either at a single event or cumulatively.

2. the time at which a performer is scheduled to appear on stage or at which a show is to begin.

3. time as experienced by the characters in a play or other theatrical production; time thought of in the context of the events in a story being represented on stage.

Example Sentences

But for the past 23 years, Steph Tolev has used every ounce of stage time to build up the proper amount of dirt to smear across a long career built on depravity, perversion and lethal amounts of bathroom humor to become comedy’s reigning “Filth Queen.”

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Pearson: That’s exactly what it was, but there was stage time too.

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David Patrick Kelly as King Sextimus the Silent spends much of his stage time engaged in a series of charades.

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“We don’t see it as competition when there’s other venues; it’s just more opportunity for comedians and artists to get stage time, and it’s ultimately better for everyone,” said Flam.

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Blake Treinen, who threw a season-high 42 pitches in 21/3 scoreless innings of the Series-clinching win in Yankee Stadium, ceded most of his stage time to Daniel Hudson, the 36-year-old reliever who announced his retirement after Wednesday’s game.

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