It was staged as a sort-of competition between the venue's two opposing stages, one armed with drums and amps, the other with tables, mics, and laptops.
In recent years, Jam Master Jay gradually shifted from performing on stage to acting as a sort of local talent scout.
Another: The set features a huge table in the center of the stage that acts as a sort of black hole, preventing any meaningful action in the prime viewing spot.
Generous and friendly, they threw large bills on the stage as some sort of status symbol.
In this first breath, Didion establishes her stage character (played here by Vanessa Redgrave) as a sort of self-dramatizing doyenne of desolation.
The principal setting of "Underworld" is a basement speakeasy called the Dreamland Cafe — a closed, windowless environment that functions as a sort of stage on which the characters can watch and be watched.
Basically this is where the sign drops down saying "WITCHES" as a sort of stage direction to our lives.
When we say that laughter "lifts our spirits," we mean that it works as a sort of stage-managed resurrection — we are somehow taken out of ourselves, and carried back into the moment.
But others said many tenants were greatly inconvenienced by noise and dust, especially those on the second floor, which had scaffolding all the way around it and served as a sort of staging area, said Andy Humm, the president of the London Terrace Gardens Tenants Association.
Spin likened Insane Clown Posse's stage act to "a sort of circus karaoke" and portrayed the group's fans as overweight suburbanites.
