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Definition of Stage door
1. Noun. An entrance to the backstage area of theater; used by performers and other theater personnel.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stage Door
Literary usage of Stage door
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1879)
"As the contributions are only "by those who enter "_the stage- door, of course,
the accepted story-tellers have all gone inside, and are stopping there. ..."
2. On the Stage--and Off: The Brief Career of a Would-be Actor by Jerome Klapka Jerome (1891)
"Through the stage door. |T was not until about a week before the opening night,
that I received a summons to attend at the theater. ..."
3. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Edward Bagby Pollard, Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1908)
"and tottered to the stage door speechless, where she was caught. The audience,
of course, applauded until she was out of sight, and then sunk into awful ..."
4. The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations by Thomas Williams Bicknell (1920)
"... it will be taken as a particular favour if no gentleman will be at the stage
door unless he has previously secured himself a place in either the stage, ..."
5. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1877)
"It is now nearly half-past seven ; there is a little bastle at the stage-door,
and a lady, who н a perfect mountain of wraps, passes hurriedly across the ..."
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