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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Theatres, cinemas & their parts
apron
art house
arthouse
backdrop
backstage
billboard
bioscope
fleapit
footlights
green room
loge
onstage
scenery
spotlight
stage door
stage left
stage right
stagily
stagy
wing

upstage | American Dictionary

upstage
verb[ T ]
us/ˌʌpˈsteɪdʒ/
to take people’s attention away from someone and make them listen to or look at you instead:
The mayor doesn’t like to be upstaged by his subordinates – he likes to make all the public announcements.

Examples of upstage

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The traditional emphasis on domestic politics had been upstaged by international conflicts of the worst kind.
Even here, it was upstaged by bright brash buildings of new image-conscious scientific industries.
In the meantime, world affairs upstaged regional planning.
One reason for this may have been that he had already been upstaged by a spectacular entrance that had taken place just a few days earlier.
To the eye as actor, the backdrop usually lies between 10 and 50 feet upstage.
The upstage height of the proscenium arch was 28 feet 6 inches, so there was a 4-foot gap to be covered by a valance.
The man in a straw hat was standing on his chair upstage, overlooking the scene.
In nearer zones, the depth information effectively specifies the tracks as parallel and holds the backdrop in its place upstage.
With the removal of the niche circle, the stage would have possessed sufficient entrances, though all decidedly upstage.
As noted in the essay above, upstage entrances for the choristers were apparently the exception to the rule.
Lacking co-ordinates in the theatrical space, all movement must be related to the stage, to the theatre space: characters enter from 'upstage right', not from next door or the street.
The four oppressors upstage walked towards four young men centre stage, holding their chairs in front of them like shields, and slowly shoved the young men offstage.
In the opening scene of this highly stylized production, the stage is almost bare, but for a small tree upstage right and an altar upstage centre.
He seldom troubles to verify a reference or document a case, his rejections tend to be magisterially dismissive, his judgements readily upstage even his most august victims.
The recent upsurge in guerrilla violence rather upstages his successes against the cartels.
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