downstage
down stayj
- n the front half of the stage (as seen from the audience)
- a of the front half of a stage
- r at or toward the front of the stage
the actors moved further and further downstage
- The technique of a gum-chewing commentator ("Wal, all I know is what I see in the newspapers"), which he developed in vaudeville and which landed him downstage in the Ziegfeld .
- Taking his time, he eventually reached a stool in a downstage corner.
- Laurence Olivier called it the Old Vic's "sweet spot" a place Spacey situates somewhere "downstage center," where an actor can most easily make that crucial connection with the .