Sentence examples for empty stages from inspiring English sources

On their own, they're a bit dismal, as empty stages always are.

From celebrated theatres to working men's clubs and school halls,  welcome to the strangely beautiful world of empty stages, as photographed by Tim Etchells and Hugo Glendinning.

Robbins rehearsed the cast of his new ballet everywhere and anywhere -- in hotel lobbies and hallways and ballrooms, in theater basements and temporarily empty stages -- any space he could find while on tour.

It's an unusually stripped-down concert film, with a few establishing shots of gathering fans and empty stages and then nothing but music — no introductions, no interviews, no back story.

The Public Theater's artistic director, Oskar Eustis, found himself with two empty stages for early 2012 when one play was pushed back until the fall, and another play, "Chinglish," went to Broadway.

A bright-red Berber carpet spread on the sand can be an empty stage, all empty stages, the limits of the known world, and it is the limits of the unknown world – and it's also a bright-red Berber carpet spread out on the sand.

Show a baby an empty stage.

Staring at an empty stage".

Why has it become "a sort of empty stage"?

"Two people alone on an empty stage for ten minutes".

They can't mean a literally empty stage.