restage

verb

re·​stage (ˌ)rē-ˈstāj How to pronounce restage (audio)
restaged; restaging

transitive verb

: to stage (something) again
The play was restaged abroad.

Examples of restage in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web This involves a sense of every element of the show, not just an attempt to restage a movie in a live manner. Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 19 May 2024 Versions of this sequence have been restaged, updated, and modified over the decades while never straying far from the fundamental stylishiness of the concept. Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024 Despite talk of restaging it in Vienna and San Diego’s Balboa Park, when the debut summer in Germany was over, Luna Luna was packed away and eventually forgotten. Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2024 As the family restages its feuds, acting becomes group therapy. Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024 What’s your process when training artists that will restage your performance work? Vogue, 23 Sep. 2023 The piece was restaged in December 2023 at London’s Royal Academy of Arts for an Abramović retrospective. Scottie Andrew, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024 Scott’s Napoleon restages the couple’s meeting as an encounter at a party where both are outsiders observing French high society. Nathan Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023 DuVernay restaged a Nazi book-burning rally in Berlin’s Bebelplatz. Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1893, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of restage was in 1893

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“Restage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/restage. Accessed 20 Jun. 2024.

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