thrust stage
noun
: a stage that projects beyond the proscenium so that the audience sits around the projection
also
: a forestage that is extended into the auditorium to increase the stage area
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Mikel enters soulfully humming and begins shaking hands with the crowd before mounting the nearly bare thrust stage, close seats on three sides, to plead her case.
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Manuel Mendoza, Dallas Morning News, 12 Feb. 2026
The Guthrie’s sprawling thrust stage acts as a blank canvas on which the actors deliver the play’s transporting poetry with precious little distraction.
—Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 9 Feb. 2026
Staged on the theater’s thrust stage, in an intimate 324-seat setting, proximity to all the actors is always part of the lure.
—Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 26 Nov. 2025
The production uses the same set designer as in Denver, Brian Sidney Bembridge, but the art gallery setting and the play’s blocking have had to be revised considerably since the Denver Center has a shallow proscenium and Hartford Stage has a deep thrust stage as well as a larger auditorium.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 3 Mar. 2025
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Manuel Mendoza, Dallas Morning News, 12 Feb. 2026
The Guthrie’s sprawling thrust stage acts as a blank canvas on which the actors deliver the play’s transporting poetry with precious little distraction.
—Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 9 Feb. 2026
Staged on the theater’s thrust stage, in an intimate 324-seat setting, proximity to all the actors is always part of the lure.
—Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 26 Nov. 2025
The production uses the same set designer as in Denver, Brian Sidney Bembridge, but the art gallery setting and the play’s blocking have had to be revised considerably since the Denver Center has a shallow proscenium and Hartford Stage has a deep thrust stage as well as a larger auditorium.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 3 Mar. 2025
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