Sentence examples for monumental stage from inspiring English sources

In the history of the performing arts, nothing has attained mythic status like the Royal Shakespeare Company's monumental stage adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby in 1981; it is routinely celebrated as the high-water mark of subsidised theatre's golden age and the Channel 4 screen version gave it locus classicus status around the English-speaking world.

This is the city as a monumental stage set for dreaming, with Sophie Calle enacting chance encounters with Bronx strangers, Luke Fowler taking another look at the rebel psychiatrist RD Laing's reflections on urban alienation, and Moyra Davey peering over subway commuters' shoulders to spy into their private doodlings.

She volubly recounts the mishaps that plagued Franco Zeffirelli's monumental staging.

It hit an early peak last month with a monumental staging of Verdi's Requiem, and will continue through November.

Piero Faggioni's monumental staging of Puccini's gold-rush melodrama first arrived at the Royal Opera House in 1977.

Revisiting this play, which was first staged in 1999, Walsh has expanded the text significantly; and, under his own direction for Landmark Productions, it is given a monumental staging.

Reactions to Peter Stein's monumental staging of both parts of Goethe's "Faust," since its first performance at the Hanover 2000 Expo in July, have been split along national lines.

Schwartz explores the very fine line between reality and mirage, and is able to mislead and deceive us by turning a precarious DIY installation into a monumental and obscure stage design.

The transition from high school to college is a monumental turning point, and it's more important to focus on how a young adult is moving on to a new stage than where that stage happens to be.

Now her daughter, the stellar actress Angelica Page, is paying homage to this monumental artist in her stage piece "Turning Page" (at Dixon Place, beginning previews Feb. 10).

His memoirs, first published...more than eighty years ago, constitute the pilgrim's progress of a rough Odessan youth whose monumental presence on the stage... made him a star.