Sentence examples for stage reputation from inspiring English sources

I could listen to him chat all day, he's such a softly-spoken gent for his stage reputation.

His stage reputation was beyond dispute, and people said that he looked the part – tall, dark and thirsty – when he did Dracula (1979).

It was only with the production of John Bull's Other Island (performed 1904) in London, with a special performance for Edward VII, that Shaw's stage reputation was belatedly made in England.

Her stage reputation even kept matinee idol John Barrymore on the straight and narrow.

But when the indie fest gets underway next month, it will bring a very particular kind of reinvention: comic performers with robust stage reputations taking on highly serious screen roles.

Photograph: Tristram Kenton Any stage director's reputation rises and falls in waves, but last winter Katie Mitchell's literally rose and fell with Waves, her much-debated "devised work" based on Virginia Woolf.

After Pinter's radio play A Slight Ache (first produced 1959) was adapted for the stage (1961), his reputation was secured by his second full-length play, The Caretaker (first produced 1960; filmed 1963), which established him as more than just another practitioner of the then-popular Theatre of the Absurd.

It proved a blessing in disguise, as Buckley has since graduated from Rada and is now carving out a growing stage and screen reputation, excelling as pious Princess Marya Bolkonskaya in the BBC's handsome adaptation of War and Peace, where she met her boyfriend, on-screen brother James Norton.

As Australia advanced courtesy of their superior record in the group stage, South Africa's reputation for "choking" was well and truly established.

Rye, middle baritone of the Gogan Boys, an act too big for this stage (not only reputation-wise but in strict bodily terms, the three Irish louts in their thick brocaded vests would never have fit on this club's riser), was the celebrity among them, not that any of them would acknowledge it.

Yet as Stanley Plumly points out in "Posthumous Keats," his moving and perceptive book about him, there is something elusive, mysterious and attention getting about the epitaph, which is after all inscribed in stone in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome; it's as if Keats were stage-managing his reputation from beyond the grave.