"Offstage" refers to an area not visible to the audience during a performance, typically beyond the edges of the stage. It is where actors wait for their cues or prepare for their next appearance.
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Kasich avoided both his audience and the press following his «Two Paths» speech in midtown this morning, walking immediately
offstage as he concluded and then departing through a side exit.
(And, lest we forget, Google is one of the pioneers of the self - driving car, which continues to lurk
just offstage.)
But with Woods
offstage for a second straight major and Phil Mickelson and his quest to complete the Lefty Slam headlining a star - studded cast, McIlroy enters this week's U.S. Open out of the spotlight.
She should have used a different method, like maybe have people in unitards rush in
from offstage and illuminate her with flashlights.
To take the rich darkness of orchestrated violence and make it bear fruit every time a child
walks offstage with a toy.
Two years ago on a summer morning, Jim Gilliam stood
offstage at New York University's Skirball Center.
A scene where George and Ralph make friends
happens offstage while Peyton plops us in a bunker listening to the military pick out the best bomb.
Daniels, whose
offstage name is Stephanie Clifford, seems well on her way to becoming to Donald Trump what Monica Lewinsky was to Bill Clinton — an indelible part of the narrative surrounding his administration.
Each time Shields, the star of the show,
came offstage, she stuck her head down the stairwell and hissed, «What's the score?»
This sequel offers more of the same peppy, upbeat blend of onstage thrust - and - grind and
offstage emotional upheaval, as Mike and the team set out for the beach to take part in a stripping convention.
Facebook was more valuable to him as a «low - key,
offstage networking tool,» a «replacement for end - of - year family newsletters» that allowed him to «passively keep up with people,» he said.
Even now, Andrew is fighting a perception that took hold when he was
working offstage for Mario that he's more enforcer than leader.
Based on Australian director Justin Kurzel's approach to Shakespeare, particularly the battle scenes kept
largely offstage in the theater, it's no surprise Kurzel's next project is «Assassin's Creed» with his «Macbeth» costars Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard.
Michael Cader and Mike Shatzkin will have a conversation about subjects they discuss with many players in the
industry offstage but which they can't find volunteers to have the conversation in public.
For the first half of the play, Dmitry Shcherbina's young, handsome Malvolio melts on and
offstage like Jeeves in a morning suit.
Friedberg and Seltzer give no indication they've actually watched most of the movies they're parodying: the gags, so to speak, invariably involve some character (like, say, No Country For Old Men's Anton Chigurh) abruptly showing up, quoting a few lines from the trailer, and then scurrying
offstage before anyone might have to write them something original.
Noisy
offstage plotting against Iain Duncan Smith in Blackpool made 2003 a memorably bad year for the Tories.
Ironically, even though customer interactions usually happen more quickly in onstage venues than
offstage venues like email, it is important that you not respond instantly in social media, review sites, or forums.
Then he dropped the microphone and
darted offstage, and with that, the Kanye West brand took another step forward.
But for the throngs of friends and colleagues in attendance, he simply appeared almost at random throughout the day: at the front of the stage, fist - pumping to whatever band was playing; onstage, peacocking like Mick Jagger; or
jumping offstage and crowd - surfing.
But there are
rustlings offstage as a cast of scientists discreetly parts the curtains to reveal some stunning new implications for natural theology.
When it finally does make a climactic appearance in the closing chapters on ecumenism, the social gospel and war, it is effective — but it has been
offstage too long.
But Tittle's openness shared the stage with, and was
shoved offstage by, other positions less sympathetic to science.
BLM supporters allegedly even chased Los Angeles Mayor Eric
Garcetti offstage and attacked his car.
Was she a magician's assistant who, after disappearing from the magic box, never reappeared because your uncle spirited her
away offstage and into an awaiting gypsy caravan?
Most of their beginners» mistakes were
made offstage, during three years of apprenticeship, followed by six more baking in a little room with a hole cut into it to reach the oven they built outside.
The players come to the edge of the dugout and
gaze offstage at the field)
In the dugout the Orioles are all half - standing in amazement, watching a ball bouncing high off home
plate offstage)
The action is set in an office — which occasionally makes the action too sedentary for too long — of staffers to a Tory education minister, who are frantically trying to find new jobs between meetings with teaching unions («If you can, do; if you're a cock, teach») and quipping about the shambles of modern politics, including a memorable comparison of coalition with foreplay, and complaining about their
perpetually offstage boss.
Amid great pomp and ceremony — not to mention
dark offstage rumblings that the end of the world was nigh — the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's mightiest particle smasher, fired up in September last year.
For an actress embarrassed that she got her big break in Grease 2, it must have seemed like an opportunity to demonstrate that she could pull off Sandy and Rizzo at the same time; she's pure lusciousness behind the microphone, sarcastic and world -
weary offstage.
Walk the Line is elevated by two of the most brilliant performances you could ever hope to see from Joaquin Phoenix as the legendary Johnny Cash and Reese Witherspoon as June Carter, Cash's partner on stage and
eventually offstage as well.
There's real tension in the sequences where she belts out songs to adoring crowds before slowly making her way down the
stairs offstage.
It's tough to sympathize with a man as spectacularly rich and successful as Seinfeld, but the movie has an engaging rhythm, a few great laughs and
offstage chats with Seinfeld and fellow comics Jay Leno, Garry Shandling and Chris Rock.
But Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore suffers from relying too much on dizzying visuals while shunting the human
characters offstage.
, it renders Olivier more machine than man and gives the film its balance by providing,
mostly offstage, a villain with charisma and a dream for a better tomorrow free of the animalism of man.
It's well over an hour before Polonius is killed, with Ophelia
essentially offstage twiddling her thumbs.
Affleck is working hard to become the most boring mammal in the kingdom (during one five - minute stretch in the middle with
Affleck offstage, I kid you not, I forgot that he was in the picture) and Thurman, combining her Poison Ivy character from Batman & Robin with Sean Connery's Weatherman character from her The Avengers (I don't understand it, either), essentially mails it in from her hiatus between Kill Bill and breaking up with Ethan Hawke.
PLANET TERROR features Rose McGowan as Cherry, the go - go dancer with the bodacious booty who weeps on stage, but kicks butt
when offstage.
All About Nina Feature Narrative Country: USA Director: Eva Vives Writer: Eva Vives Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Common (also starring in Blue Night), Chace Crawford, Clea DuVall, Kate del Castillo, Beau Bridges, Eva Vives Nina Geld's passion and talent have made her a rising star in the comedy scene, but she's an emotional
mess offstage.