How to Use restage in a Sentence

restage

verb
  • What’s your process when training artists that will restage your performance work?
    — Vogue, 23 Sep. 2023
  • This involves a sense of every element of the show, not just an attempt to restage a movie in a live manner.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 19 May 2024
  • That the play hasn’t been restaged has fueled the idea, fed by Beaulieu’s compendium, that copies no longer exist.
    — Elon Green, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2025
  • As the family restages its feuds, acting becomes group therapy.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • This unfortunately means my cancer will likely be restaged to stage 4.
    — Janelle Ash, Fox News, 12 Sep. 2024
  • The film restages that moment for the cameras, as Jackson wanders into a drag bar where Ally happens to be singing.
    — Kristen S. Hé, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Part of the appeal of restaging Romeo and Juliet lies in its familiarity.
    — Sara Krolewski, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2026
  • In 1997, the event was canceled and restaged to a small audience after a bomb scare threatened the original date.
    — Leila Sackur, NBC News, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Mitzi describes her young son’s desire to restage DeMille as a way to control a chaotic situation.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2022
  • DuVernay restaged a Nazi book-burning rally in Berlin’s Bebelplatz.
    — Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Scott’s Napoleon restages the couple’s meeting as an encounter at a party where both are outsiders observing French high society.
    — Nathan Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Versions of this sequence have been restaged, updated, and modified over the decades while never straying far from the fundamental stylishiness of the concept.
    — Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Despite the invasion, the couple and their families decided to proceed as planned with their wedding date — but restage the event across the world, in New York.
    — New York Times, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The opening credits acknowledge that pivotal moments have been restaged but leaves the impression that everything really happened.
    — Michael Waters, New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Why not restage Judy Garland's legendary 1961 Carnegie Hall performance?
    — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 31 July 2020
  • Lloyd said that will not be possible in New York (the team has previously expressed concerns about safety) but said it would be restaged for Broadway.
    — Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Lee’s dream became to restage that photo, documenting the momentous contribution of Chinese workers who never got their due.
    — Alexandra Tatarsky, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2021
  • In a theatrical revision from the original sequence of events, the scene is restaged in an austere church and features Napoleon violently slapping his former wife.
    — Nathan Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
  • In this promising but ultimately half-baked gory bit of business, a killer (Dacre Montgomery) restages scenes of torture and murder inspired by that film for his serial killing.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Andrea Weber, one of the few choreographers authorized to restage the works of the late dance visionary Merce Cunningham.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Fuqua uses Jaafar to restage countless iconic Jackson moments, and the moments of performance are absolutely electric.
    — Kiana Mickles, Pitchfork, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The David Zwirner gallery recently restaged a Diane Arbus retrospective.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Now it’s being restaged for Broadway, with the characters of young lovers Matt and Luisa being changed to Matt and Lewis, reinterpreting the tale through a modern gay lens.
    — Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The art dealer Yvon Lambert invited her to restage the exhibition in his New York gallery — not as a curatorial gesture but as an artwork in its own right.
    — New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021
  • But the opera, which centers around the days leading up to the Trinity test and culminates in the detonation of the first atomic bomb, was rapturously received by critics and has been restaged several times since its debut.
    — Andy Kifer, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2023
  • Milner’s artistic practice engages with similar themes as Gonzalez-Torres, restaging everyday objects in new contexts.
    — Nathan Pugh, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Here, the legendary choreographer discusses restaging his AIDS-era masterpiece and the privilege of dreaming.
    — Michael Cuby, Them, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Director and choreographer Hector Guerrero will restage the original choreography.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Paksa restages the medium’s tendency toward repetition but strips it of entertainment value, revealing the medium as an extension of totalitarian control.
    — Daniel R. Quiles, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Although that work was written specifically for that setting and that instrument, Swed notes that if Chacon were looking to restage the work, Southern California is home to a couple of the world’s largest church organs.
    — Carolina A. Mirandacolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2022

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