So why was he even considering a visit to the box across the stage?

Then a Met official invited people to take a walk across the stage.

There was no help for it; he had to call across the stage.

He walked across the stage and looked out over the crowd.

They race across the stage and roll about the floor.

We could hear each person's name as they walked across the stage.

The sounds could therefore be moved around the audience, rather than just across the front stage.

Events passed across the stage the way thoughts pass through the mind.

I stare across the stage and she's looking back at me.

Then she had to run across the stage on her own.