The phrase "a distant stage" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a point in time or a phase that is far away or not immediately relevant.
Example: "As we look towards a distant stage in our project, we must consider the long-term implications of our current decisions."
Alternatives: "a far-off phase" or "a remote point".
Rows and rows of worshippers stood motionless, wearing cardboard glasses, facing a distant stage on which four elderly men in tight geometric tops stood expressionless behind identical keyboards.
The idea is this: traditional theatre shows are passive affairs where you watch a distant stage from the comfort of a chair - but a Punchdrunk show is active, mysterious, and places you inside a fiction you can touch, smell, and even taste.
Hannah Jane Parkinson, community It's become a bit of cliche to say this, but Thursday really is the best day of the festival: there wasn't any mud at that stage this year; the site's not yet at maximum occupancy; and of course there's no live music – so no pressure to flog yourself to a distant stage to see a band you once half-promised yourself you ought to see.
He must develop rapport with individuals after spending most of his campaign courting giant crowds from a distant stage.
But he understood, perhaps instinctively, that via recordings and videos, of which he made many, an artist could achieve much greater intimacy with his public than as a figure performing under pressure on a distant stage.
Enrolling deceased cases through proxies could remove the potential bias of eliminating patients at a late distant stage.
Compared to US-born Hispanics, foreign-born Hispanics were somewhat more likely to be diagnosed at a regional or distant stage of disease or with missing stage information, and to live in the lowest SES neighborhood and Hispanic enclaves.
Etzioni et al (2008), in a population-based simulation model, projected a 52% decline in distant stage incidence with PSA screening.
A substantial proportion of the responders had regional stage and moderately differentiated cancers, while non-responders had a greater proportion of distant stage and poorly differentiated cancers.
Despite an increasing proportion of distant stage, survival is increasing.
But what ambitious, contemporary architect wants to build a plain, hangar-like space, with straight rows of seats facing a distant proscenium stage, and leave it at that?
