Sentence examples for of modern stage from inspiring English sources

Penn Jillette was telling the Telegraph the other week about his committed atheism; that's the prevailing spirit of modern stage magic.

Audiences wouldn't tolerate getting rained on, or the absence of modern stage effects, if it wasn't in the name of history.

What we need is a true and willing director of modern stage spectacle, along with a masterly conductor and a cast of our best actors and singers, to get this whole earnest, impassioned leviathan onstage, where it belongs.

The plaintiffs contend that the Met used funds against the terms of her bequest when it presented a 2001 broadcast of Mr. Dorn's "Tristan," a type of modern staging that Harrington would never have condoned.

The expedition of the Soviet research vessel Vityaz in 1949 marked the beginning of the modern stage of oceanographic research in the sea.

It's an irresistible question for scholars, artists and critics, and while Robert Brustein, one of the true Renaissance men of the modern stage, has played all of these roles, he approaches the subject with humility.

First staged in 1924, the play sealed O'Neill's position, in the words of one contemporary critic, as "the first truth-teller of the modern stage".

The work requires tight coördination — not just of scripted words and silences but of movements, gestures, costumes, music, and the whole immersive apparatus of the modern stage.

It is one of Broadway's grandest theaters, a triumph of restoration and modern stage technology, a handsome, big-time musical-theater theater.

For instance, two of the "modern" stages deal with immigration and asylum, and are titled "Found Objects".

The flamboyant Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde and the ascetic George Bernard Shaw were temperamental opposites, but the two Dublin-born writers shared gifts of wit, intellect and a command of language that helped shape the modern stage.