Sentence examples for offstage actors from inspiring English sources

The technology goes back to the 19th century, when the reflection of offstage actors on a tilted piece of glass was sometimes used to create the illusion that a ghost was onstage.

The director, Stanley Allan Sherman, has turned the hotel into more of a presence, with offstage actors providing the sound effects of an energetic couple in Room 204, and one unexpected appearance.

Foreigners — particularly in less-developed countries — might attribute the actions of their leaders to shadowy forces like the CIA or Israel's Mossad, but Americans knew better than to think that offstage actors could have such influence on them.

Offstage, the actors agree with the widespread Mexican repudiation of Trump's anti-immigrant talk, but they also don't take him too seriously.

Instead, he wrote about the conjoined careers on and offstage of actors Henry Irving and Ellen Terry – and their tangled families – in A Strange and Eventful History.

The same characters appear in both, which suggests a third, unseen drama taking place offstage with actors madly commuting between the two venues.

Offstage, the actor exudes the kind of weary wisdom that makes him seem just right for the role of a tortured soul like James Tyrone.

Backstage, he chats amiably with stagehands and other actors; offstage, he dotes on his 1 1/2-year-old daughter, Briahna.

(That music is played live by offstage pianists while actors sit at pianos, hands obscured).

Composure regained, he signaled to the conductor to cut the number short, got the actors offstage, raised the house lights and put the curtain down.

It, too, is a triumph of digital artistry and of the dramatic implications of actors' offstage lives, bringing together some of France's great performers, in their own name, who gather for the funeral of a (fictitious) playwright who, via video, addresses them seemingly from beyond and lures them into collaboration with other actors — also via video.