Crossword clues for upstage
upstage
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1855 in theatrical jargon, "to the rear of the stage," from up (adv.) + stage (n.). From 1901 as an adjective, 1916 as a noun. The notion in the verb (1921) is of drawing attention to oneself (and away from a fellow actor) by moving upstage, so that the other actor must face away from the audience. Related: Upstaged; upstaging.
Wiktionary
At the rear of a stage. adv. 1 toward or at the rear of a theatrical stage. 2 away from a motion-picture or television camera. n. The part of a stage that is farthest from the audience or camera. v
1 (context transitive English) To draw attention away from others, especially on-stage. 2 (context transitive English) To force other actors to face away from the audience by staying upstage. 3 (context transitive English) To treat snobbishly. 4 (label en medicine) (context transitive English) To restage (cancer) to a higher stage than that found at last assessment (compare downstage)
WordNet
adj. of the back half of a stage; "she crossed to the upstage chair forcing the lead to turn his back to the audience" [ant: downstage]
remote in manner; "stood apart with aloof dignity"; "a distant smile"; "he was upstage with strangers" [syn: aloof, distant]
adv. at or toward the rear of the stage; "the dancers were directed to move upstage" [ant: downstage]
v. treat snobbishly, put in one's place
move (another actor) upstage, forcing him to turn away from the audience
steal the show, draw attention to oneself away from someone else; "When the dog entered the stage, he upstaged the actress"
Wikipedia
Upstage was a free monthly publication founded by Gary Wien that covered arts and entertainment in New Jersey, US. Each issue covered music, art, film, theatre, dance, poetry, literature and comedy. The magazine first appeared in October 2003 and was distributed in New Brunswick, Princeton, Trenton, Red Bank, Long Branch, Asbury Park, Woodbridge, Rahway and Point Pleasant. In 2006, Upstage partnered with Black Potato Entertainment and expanded to a statewide publication and distribution. The magazine received an Asbury Music Award for Top Music Publication and ceased publication in 2008. It was succeeded by New Jersey Stage, an online music magazine edited and published by Gary Wien.
UpStage is an open source server-side application that has been purpose built for Cyberformance: multiple artists collaborate in real time via the UpStage platform to create and present live theatrical performances, for audiences who can be online (from anywhere in the world) or in a shared space, and who can interact with the performance via a text chat tool. It can also be understood as a form of digital puppetry.
Upstage (also known as The Mask of Comedy) is a 1926 American silent romantic drama film directed by Monta Bell, starring Norma Shearer and New York musical comedy star Oscar Shaw.
Usage examples of "upstage".
Reverend Juniper Jackman, who had come to Abominadad to upstage and liberate Cooder, only to end up his cellmate.
It upstaged Ragnarok, dwarfed Armageddon, mocked Apocalypse, overshadowed the Qiyamah, outdid the Kali Yuga, ruined the prophecy of Maitreya Buddha.
I N S I L E N C E 139 Not to be upstaged, Ben insisted on taking us out for a walk.
Yet even they were upstaged by the main attractions of the gathering, a dozen or more sachems and warriors of the Caughnawaga Indians in full regalia who had been invited to dine, together with their wives and children.
BAGBY faces THOMAS, upstaging him, to darkness and silence which, after a moment, is broken by the distant sound of cannon.
One beefy man well over six feet tall, in an elegant cowboy hat, polished cowboy boots, a pin-striped suit and a western string tie, capsulizes the matter so: "I'm an unholy son of a bitch if those amazing fucking Jews haven't gone and fucking upstaged the Bicentennial!
White columns rise on the veranda, running from downstage left to upstage left center.
The parlour carries through the stark elegance of the house, with plain chairs flanking a sideboard upstage right center, a fireplace with long straight mantel at right, and the corner of a spinet showing at downstage right.
At downstage left center a rather ponderous desk littered with mail and newspapers, two chairs, and the effect of being partitioned off in a large glassed enclosure from the rest of the office beyond, reached by a glass-paneled door upstage right.
Neatly but unostentatiously dressed, THOMAS is standing at a window left staring out, as MR BAGBY advances from upstage right toward downstage center desk.
He's doing the downstage lights, his assistant will take care of upstage.
It has been suggested that this may be the result of being upstaged by Conrad, Maugham and others whose more extensive and perhaps more profound explorations of similar exotic territory have become better known.
A lavish, fabulous occasion, attended by lavish and fabulous people-politicians, diplomats, ambassadors, even the odd scion of some royal family tree here and there, very odd-and all of them upstaged by their surroundings.
Now that every knight in Poland was flying kites, Count Lambert had to upstage them all with a hot air balloon.
A canopy partially covers the stage, supported by the primary structure upstage and two narrow columns about halfway downstage.