How to Use stage play in a Sentence

stage play

noun
  • The last time these two teams met was in the final game of group stage play.
    — Julian McKenzie, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
  • The Boy Who Lived into a stage play.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 11 May 2026
  • Is another stage play in your future?
    — Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Netflix is going back in time with its Stranger Things stage play.
    — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 6 Nov. 2023
  • In fact, it was based on a stage play, which was itself an adaptation of the novel.
    — Katie Rife, EW.com, 12 Mar. 2024
  • In fact, it was based on a stage play, which was itself an adaptation of the novel.
    — Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Puig's book was adapted into a stage play in 1983.
    — Nicole Acevedo, NBC news, 9 Oct. 2025
  • There’s not much there on which to hang an American epic, though many a film and stage play has tried.
    — Bob Verini, Variety, 14 June 2024
  • For now, the Netflix movie and the eventual stage play will have to sate his fans.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Pratt said the movie, which is set in the near future, was shot like a stage play with 60-minute full-length takes.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The drama has already been proven to work, in the form of Satter’s stage play based on the same text.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The actor was removed from other roles and dropped from the cast of a stage play he was scheduled to appear in.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The stage play came out of a desire to not be on a promotional book tour, and to keep my own interest in it.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2025
  • While she's only seen as a shadow in the stage play, the upcoming film will give her a more prominent role.
    — Mekishana Pierre, EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The opponents for those matches won’t be determined until the end of group-stage play.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 2 June 2026
  • But not every author is going to thrive in a writers room or be good at turning his or her book into a film or stage play.
    — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Go on the field with The Star’s photojournalists for one more match of group-stage play.
    — Dominick Williams, Kansas City Star, 30 June 2026
  • Go on the field with The Star’s photojournalists for one more match of group-stage play.
    — Dominick Williams, Kansas City Star, 29 June 2026
  • In the stage play, Clooney will portray Murrow, who died in 1965.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 13 May 2024
  • The story of the twins is represented by a stage play happening within the episode.
    — Lisa De Los Reyes, HollywoodReporter, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Stranger Things is such a hit, it’s inspired not just candles, but also books, novels, comics, video games and a stage play.
    — Claire Franken, TVLine, 20 July 2024
  • The premiere scenes with Meredith and Catherine felt almost like watching a stage play.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Sep. 2024
  • With both her new movie and stage play, Squibb is pleased to be telling stories that show the realities of aging for women.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The two women first met in the early two-thousands, when Smart read for a part in a stage play based on Burnett’s life.
    — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • In order to do so, four of the five characters on stage play multiple characters during the production.
    — Dillon Thomas, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Betts feels that this stage play can be a reminder of the work that needs to be done in oneself, which in turn will manifest into a larger, more critical change on the outside.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 28 Oct. 2023
  • As the panelists jockeyed to explain the momentous development in this cavernous studio that was quiet as all hell, the scene had the feel of a strange stage play.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Witness ambition, betrayal and the human psyche converge in this stage play, infused with razor-sharp and dark humor.
    — Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Set in a dark, cluttered space — the tract house where hermetic Charlie’s soul unfolds — The Whale feels as contrived as a stage play.
    — Armond White, National Review, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The Round of 32 will begin immediately after the completion of the group stage play.
    — Mark Harris, FOXNews.com, 10 June 2026

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