Play
Stage
Stage verb - To bring before the public in performance or exhibition.
Usage example: staged the full body of Shakespeare's plays in the course of a year
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Synonyms for Stage
Play is a synonym for stage in theatre topic. Sometimes you can use "Play" instead the word "Stage" as a verb or a noun, if it concerns topics such as arrange, show, present, entertainment.
How words are described
| musical | musical play | musical stage |
| full | full play | full stage |
| long | long play | long stage |
| normal | normal play | normal stage |
| Other adjectives: short, perfect, regular, original, single, actual, entire, real, big, main, new, early, final, next, last, different, said, earlier, previous. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Catch Phrase: Billie Joe almost always says "get your ass up here" when he picks a fan to come on-stage and play with him.
Source: Music / Green Day -
Instead of using her crew, she pulled two fans onto the stage to stay there throughout the show and play the theme from Clue on her keyboard, while she ran around the stage between the songs acting out the theatre parts by herself "Tim Curry style".
Source: Audience Participation Song -
Also in 2014 he recorded a version of "Sonic Attack" for Hawkwind's stage shows.Theatre He was the first to play old Deuteronomy in Cats.
Source: Creator / BRIAN BLESSED
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