Definition of onstage
: on or onto a stage : on a part of the stage visible to the audience
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Transaction necessitates multiple people, but Pusha is onstage alone.
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In addition to playing featured roles in Friday's play, students also designed the sets, costumes, and danced onstage.
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Surrounding the mausoleum in the photograph are several floral arrangements including the black and silver painted arrangements similar to those that were onstage with Onfroy’s casket at his public memorial at the BB&T Center on June 27.
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Explore the blueprint room to relive some of the show’s most exciting moments, test your hypothesis in the workshop and catch a live demonstration onstage on the demo stage, with multiple shows throughout the day.
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In the more than two decades since the 41-year-old became mega-famous for her turn as Cher Horowitz in Clueless, she's stirred the creative pot now and then with a role onscreen or onstage, but mostly put acting on the back burner.
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Ultimately, everything ended up being built onstage, so that was accommodating for them.
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Even those who recall the times, or know the history well, must pay rapt attention to keep up with who's who onstage.
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Crucially, the Sisters are onstage for the opening scene, created by the directors out of whole cloth, in which Chaon Cross's Lady Macbeth mourns over a small coffin containing what appears to be her own stillborn baby.
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First Known Use of onstage
1925
ONSTAGE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of onstage for English Language Learners
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: on or onto a stage and in front of an audience
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