She did not see the back curtain rise, nor the figure that crept within.

My character had every other line from curtain rise to curtain fall.

The Chestnut Street Theatre was once again consumed in a fire in 1856 and would not see another curtain rise for six years.

Just before the front curtain rises, it becomes transparent and reveals a few dancers moving behind it.

After nine little prop swans have floated past a miniature castle, the front curtain rises and introduces a desolate place.

How to get round the stiff predictability of sets that declare themselves at curtain rise and will be there till curtain fall?

The fake curtain rises and the dancers are seen in near silhouette against a white expanse.

Her choreography extends the dancers in the prologue and deepens when the fake curtain rises.

"Once that curtain rises, my voice will rise 10 octaves," she says, heading toward the wings.

Shannon glanced back to see the heavy, rippling curtain rise as if weightless.