How to Use stage direction in a Sentence

stage direction

noun
  • And that’s just a stage direction.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Thing provides stage directions to get Tyler to find and chase Enid.
    — Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Michaels reads the stage directions for each sketch aloud but refrains from commentary.
    — Susan Morrison, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Even like having to write the action lines, because a lot of my plays, there’s no stage directions.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
  • What’s the most famous stage direction in all of Shakespeare’s canon?
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2019
  • The funniest bit about the script is the stage directions for the audience.
    — Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Every word of the script, every joke, and every beat of the stage direction came directly from me.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Then the screenplay then cuts off in the middle of the action, with the final stage direction left hanging.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Some sentences are presented to us in italics, as stage directions.
    — Priscilla Gilman, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Did Damon and Nick’s stage direction describe a lot of the action beats?
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2020
  • But the real revelations are found in the stage direction and screenplay notes.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Did your stage direction include all the fun action moments like bouncing the bat on the ground or lighting a biker’s beard on fire?
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2020
  • And then there’s this beautiful stage direction that Jesse wrote in the script of Tom and Shiv in the car.
    — Krystie Lee Yandoli, Rolling Stone, 29 May 2023
  • In August Wilson’s writing, there’s not a lot of stage direction.
    — Zak Cheney-Rice, Vulture, 13 May 2026
  • But the new chamber opera’s libretto and some of the stage direction were disappointing.
    — Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Sometimes Michael Mayer’s stage direction is too crisp and emphatic for its own good.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 20 June 2024
  • Any tickle is documented, like a stage direction that everybody else can see.
    — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • In this same mode, McCraney often has his characters speak their own stage directions.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The slumbering bodies are arranged in tableau fashion, as the stage directions prescribe.
    — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 10 May 2018
  • With such a text-heavy play, Meadow must make sure that each prop, sound cue and stage direction supports what the characters are saying onstage.
    — Sonia Weiser, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Fans of William Shakespeare will recognize the phrase as one of the most famous stage directions in history.
    — OregonLive.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Small said a favorite course was introduction to theater, exposing him to texts, playwrights and stage directions.
    — Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 24 May 2018
  • The play’s title refers to a theatrical stage direction indicating sounds coming from backstage.
    — Julia M. Klein, Philly.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Hopefully whoever plays Hedda also does the bear who causes that famous exeunt, chased by stage direction.
    — Vulture, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Hammerstein then proceeded to go through every stage direction, every song, every scene, every line of dialogue.
    — Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Slade’s could easily have been described in Wilson’s stage directions as a location for some postshow unwinding.
    — Imani Perry, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2023
  • His blurting out of his political stage directions was a vintage moment of Trumpian indiscretion.
    — Jonathan Martin, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2017
  • Peter Sagal, the host of radio show Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me, will host and read stage directions.
    — Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Seeing the global response to my specific stage direction and script was incredibly rewarding.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Callie Prendiville’s stage direction transcended the usual limitations of plays on film.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2021

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