How to Use stage manager in a Sentence

stage manager

noun
  • Adler spent the bulk of his life as a stage manager.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 24 Aug. 2025
  • The clock is controlled by the stage manager who calls the show.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 16 Jan. 2026
  • One by one, the cast and the two stage managers went backstage to drop their votes in the box.
    — Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • When the stage manager yelled out the lines, why wasn’t that helpful?
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Abbott wanted a stage manager to go with him to get the show back on track.
    — Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 July 2019
  • From here, the stage manager calls and can monitor the progress of light and sound cues.
    — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 7 June 2018
  • The stage manager put on the house lights and sent the cast, crew, and audience home.
    — Andrew Daniels, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2019
  • Two different stage managers and stage crews learned the show, one for each college.
    — Catalina Righter, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 2 Oct. 2019
  • From the booking agents to the stage managers, from the brand partners to the artist liaisons.
    — Lee Trink, HollywoodReporter, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The stage manager queued us in at 15 seconds.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Only a crazy stage manager would bring down the curtain on this brand of theater.
    — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Gates had been working as a stage manager on Broadway for two decades.
    — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 9 May 2024
  • Kriger got a frantic call from the stage manager, begging her to sub in for the sick cast member.
    — Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • So much of our guild is the associate directors and stage managers.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Helping to make that happen is a stage manager's booth that can be moved anywhere around the room.
    — Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 26 June 2019
  • When a job as assistant stage manager opened up, Adler left school to take the job.
    — Shania Russell, EW.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • And the stage manager didn’t want to give me $2 to buy some cough drops at the little souvenir shop next door.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 26 Jan. 2023
  • So visitors get a glimpse of the role all those involved, from costumers to stage managers, bring a show to life.
    — Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Punk needed sound engineers; this movement needs stage managers who can code.
    — Bob Bonniol, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Seconds before the skit went live, the stage manager informed them that the music cut out.
    — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 May 2022
  • Once the audience was seated, a light cue flashed from the stage manager, and the show began.
    — Jeff Lunden, NPR, 16 June 2024
  • The stage manager led the performers to a waiting area behind the stage.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Katie worked with Joseph behind the scenes as a stage manager for church productions.
    — Tiffany Stanley, Woman's Day, 14 Apr. 2020
  • But Bersten and the stage managers (who trotted out some bitchen lasers) gave Hendrix the ride of her life.
    — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The stage manager, Janet Beroza, comes in, drags me by the scruff of my neck, and throws me onstage.
    — Mark Seliger, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Musicians, stage managers, and lighting and sound designers will be part of the process, too.
    — Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 14 Nov. 2019
  • The move followed a similar agreement made by actors and stage managers.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The stage manager came backstage every night with copious notes, and his job was to keep me on target.
    — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Producers are now only allowed to do this four times a year and must then give the actor or stage manager a day off.
    — Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Earlier this month, lights and sound equipment was installed and a booth was built for sound design and the stage manager.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2021

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