theater stage
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- noun
- /ˈθiːətər steɪdʒ/
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escenario
- While a few women were involved in the entertainment industry, in the early decades of the twentieth century, they were limited to the vaudeville theater stage.
- musical theater stage
Examples
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As with many theater stages, the Balboa's had a "doghouse" on top, with windows that opened up in the event of fire, to suck out heat and smoke.
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The area that the shelving now framed would become the home of the readers' theater stage and performance area.
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The final project for the first year was the readers' theater stage set.
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"Ruined" brings heavy subject matter to Shaw Theatre stage.
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From your hotel, buses bring the tourists here every day to show the remains of a theater stage more than a thousand years old.
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Winston Churchill himself once spoke from the National Theatre stage.
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He uses every inch of the set, taking advantage of the upper levels of the royal box and the rake of the theater stage.
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NTC Executive Director Tom Lee added, "I am personally delighted over the prospect of bringing a broad variety of artists and attractions to the National Theatre stage."
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Stoppard's concentrated adaptation happily finds room for Levin along with everyone else on the literal theater stage that serves as the starting point and home base for this drama of passion and society.
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The actors rehearsed diligently on the theater stage before the opening night performance.
Synonyms
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The most important place at an event where the main shows happen
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A stage that sticks out into the audience with seats on three sides
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'theater' (a venue for performances) with 'stage' (a raised platform for performances): it denotes the stage that belongs to or is located in a theater. This straightforward noun–noun compositional pattern is common across languages and follows normal English modifier-head structure, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Theater stage comes from the idea of a raised floor, the stage, where actors stand so everyone in the audience can see the action. So it means 'the part of a theater where actors perform'.