apron stage

The space in front of the curtain is called the "apron stage".

An apron stage can also be another name for a thrust stage.

Above the apron stage, on the second story, was a small stage with a balcony.

The little passdoor, I go you before, so, and you're at my apron stage.

She is currently a weekly contributor to The Apron Stage.

The apron stage and first seven rows of seats were on a revolving platform to turn the interior into an arena theatre.

At the base was an apron stage flanked by flagpoles for the swastika or the German Eagle.

A rectangular stage platform, also known as an 'apron stage', thrust out into the middle of the open-air yard.

Three The girl gyrating on the apron stage to the sounds of the tambour band was quite lovely and almost completely undressed, but Major Rawne was not looking at her.

Graham's production, performed on a mock-up apron stage, included wistful music written by Johnny Dankworth and slapstick comedy, which gave Crawford the chance to get noticed for what he did best.

The theatre of the 'Ne Plus Ultra' Play-producing Society had a dingy exterior, a death-mask of Congreve in the hall, a peculiar smell, and an apron stage.

By 1975, the Royal Vauxhall Tavern had two bars around a kidney shaped bar which doubled as a stage for the drag artists to dance along in their stilettos from the tiny apron stage at one end.

In 1962 the RSC established the Aldwych Theatre as its London base for productions transferred from Stratford to London, its stage redesigned to match the RST's apron stage.

The Straford variants, in-the-round (kind of) in the 70s, various apron stages with or without seats at the sides, broad aprons stemming from the Romans season, additional side balconies were all fascinating but none of them worked, hence the new theatre.

Poel was influenced by a performance of King Lear directed by Jocza Savits at the Hoftheater in Munich in 1890, set on an apron stage with a three-tier Globe-like reconstruction theatre as its backdrop.

It was of compact design, retaining in spite of its large seating capacity much of the intimate actor/audience contact of the Elizabethan theater, still with an almost Elizabethan-size forestage or apron stage, on which actors would come forward for maximum audience contact.

Theo Crosby, an architect, has designed a replica of the Globe (based on a drawing of the circular building made by Wenzel Hollar in 1640) with room for an audience of 1,500: some standing in an open pit around the apron stage, others seated in three-tiered, roofed-in galleries.