"framing the stage" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to setting a scene, creating a particular mood or atmosphere, or providing structure for a story. For example, "The music and lighting were perfect for framing the stage for a romantic evening."
The bat-shaped canvas tent framing the stage seemed, like Stonehenge, to be aligned with the lunar cycle.
The theater itself is full of charming details, from the curved railing in front of the balcony to the green, red and yellow proscenium framing the stage.
Audiences looking for a traditionally Western grand operatic spectacle won't find it in Mark Lamos's pared-down production, which has aqua-toned stairs and translucent shoji screens framing the stage and a fleet of naval ships suspended in the air.
Since the lyrics are helpfully projected in English on two screens framing the stage, the action can be related to the German description of trees and birds -- that is, arms spread out as boughs and wings.
The simple but elegant set designed by Josh Zangen does it, with four hanging, slatted panels evoking airy Pacific island architecture, and four rattan-like borders framing the stage, one behind the other.
Still, there was so much to look at: Noguchi opted for brash color, framing the stage with a striped tree on one side (where Lilith and the Stranger hang out), and a platform, painted red and green with two cut-out ovals, sprouting tall rods, for Adam and Eve on the other side.
The singularity of Reagan and his lonely place in the conservative pantheon is put in stark relief by photographs of the 1964 Democratic National Convention, in Atlantic City, where massive portraits of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson framed the stage.
The theatre had the grandeur of a cathedral: blood-red velvet curtains framed the stage; golden ceilings, patterned with blue-and-purple paisleys, soared over vaudeville-era balconies and plush seats.
In 1931, he used the same concept to frame the stage at the Bal Tabarin (now Bimbo's 365 Club), and to bring a changing palette of color to the ceiling above the dance floor.
Another factor making the primitive streak a good cut-off was the fact that it also marked the last point where an embryo could divide to form identical twins, which McLaren believed made it hard for opponents to frame the stages beforehand as a potential individual.
From the insane wooden wormhole structure framing the river stage, to the consistently stimulating Paradiso fit out to the thrown sculptures scattered around the main stage the production team executed a trippers promised land.
