How to Use thrust stage in a Sentence

thrust stage

noun
  • The center of the excitement, a thrust stage, is made of rich, inlaid wood.
    — Danielle Harling, House Beautiful, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Crowley’s powerfully simple set of plain screens stands deep down the huge thrust stage, with the audience wrapped around three sides.
    — David Benedict, Variety, 8 Dec. 2021
  • The original was beyond rescue, and the new venue features a thrust stage, whereas the Neuhaus is a theater in-the-round.
    — Reggie Ugwu, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The Taper’s thrust stage makes the audience in the show a very visible and very visceral part of the action.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2022
  • In its place is an intimate thrust stage, a sort of ramp that spills into the audience, surrounded by just a few risers and cabaret tables.
    — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Mar. 2018
  • On the festival’s deep-thrust stage, the aerial scene in which Billy is partnered by a future vision of himself comes off a bit flat.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 29 July 2019
  • After a hiatus, the Mark Taper, a nearly 800-seat theater with a thrust stage, will be back in full.
    — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 17 May 2024
  • The back platform contains a variety of musical instruments, played by the cast of seven, and the thrust stage is covered in layers of rugs.
    — Jerald Pierce, chicagotribune.com, 16 Nov. 2021
  • One sequence had a 40-foot-long dinosaur skeleton trailing her down the thrust stage that extended in an L-shape through the audience.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Staged on the theater’s thrust stage, in an intimate 324-seat setting, proximity to all the actors is always part of the lure.
    — Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Kokandy’s production, directed here by Lucky Stiff, is even set up to feel like a music venue, with cabaret tables surrounding a thrust stage with a platform at the back.
    — Jerald Pierce, chicagotribune.com, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Perhaps Hartford Stage is the wrong space for it, with a thrust stage that doesn’t neatly accommodate old-fashioned proscenium-style living room sets.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The renovation will allow the Rep to configure its main performing space as either a proscenium or thrust stage, increasing the kinds of shows that can be staged there.
    — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2023
  • The renovation will allow the Rep to configure its main performing space as either a proscenium or thrust stage, increasing the kinds of shows that can be staged there.
    — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Outdoors, with a thrust stage, Little Island’s theater is subject to the elements and open to onlookers, who can watch performances, for free, from the winding paths of the park.
    — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 5 June 2024
  • The messaging of Ramos' set is amplified in the Mark Taper Forum, the thrust stage forcing the audience even more directly into the heart of things.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The theater itself has undergone modification, with the installation of a thrust stage, one that, as its name implies, extends into the audience more generously.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2019
  • That maneuver is exponentially amplified at the Taper, where over 700 stadium-style seats surround the thrust stage like a semicircle.
    — Jason Armond, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2022
  • With such an open background to play on, as well as Hartford Stage’s iconic thrust stage, actors can face different directions, approach from great distances and take advantage of a bunch of different ways to come and go from the stage.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 25 Oct. 2021
  • The only thing missing — besides easy access to bathrooms, which drew some complaints from audience members — was a time-lapse video showing the towers being turned from a proscenium configuration into a theater in the round or a thrust stage.
    — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The production, directed by Robert O’Hara (who has been so instrumental in the play’s success), uses the Taper’s thrust stage to connect more viscerally to the audience.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The second and final phase encompasses most of the renovations, including adding flexible seating for up to 1,400 people, putting in a thrust stage that would extend into the audience and restoring the black light murals.
    — Madison Iszler, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Nov. 2021

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