The phrase "a permit to stage" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the official authorization required to organize or present an event or performance.
Example: "Before we can proceed with the concert, we need to obtain a permit to stage the event in the park."
Alternatives: "authorization to organize" or "license to present".
She obtained a permit to stage regular protests on Freedom Plaza over the next two months.
One rehearsal of "Woman's Outcry" was broken up by the police, because the women hadn't applied for a permit to stage a play.
After weeks of negotiations with the city, organizers for the largest protest group, United for Peace and Justice, reversed course this week and pledged to continue pushing for a permit to stage a rally for as many as 250,000 people in Central Park.
"With the crowd the way it was, if anyone goes out there without a badge or a gun or some authority, you're not gonna get anywhere [as far as crowd control]," said Savedra, who noted that while the MDR is required to obtain a permit to stage an event, spectators are essentially free to congregate on public land.
She and associates like Nadya Nikiforova, a Russian-born communications worker, have put up a Web site, distributed SkateFair pins and obtained a police permit to stage a protest march.
The likelihood of a showdown on Tuesday became evident once Mr. Hazare applied for a police permit to stage an indefinite fast.
As a result, festival organizers have only been issued a one-year permit to stage Burning Man 2012, and their efforts to obtain a five-year permit are now in jeopardy.
He was among at least a half-dozen people detained after they applied for legal permits to stage a demonstration in designated protest zones.
The residents cavort like spoiled courtiers, and Sade is permitted to stage a sadomasochistic tableau vivant set in a harem and depicting the "joys of captivity".
For many years he battled local police chiefs over permits to stage open-air concerts on adjacent land.
In the two decades that followed the revolution in 1949, China's theatre groups were only permitted to stage government-approved plays written by the likes of Ibsen and Chekhov.
