How to Use stagecraft in a Sentence

stagecraft

noun

• All the sort of stagecraft and blocks and green lights and stuff.
  — Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 28 Mar. 2024
• That mirror is not just a metaphor for him, but a matter of stagecraft.
  — New York Times, 29 June 2018
• In the end, that was the biggest takeaway from the vice president’s stagecraft.
  — New York Times, 26 Aug. 2021
• The stagecraft was jaw-dropping, and the music sounded good, if warped with too much bass.
  — Nick Remsen, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2022
• How often can magic be used to get out of a tight spot or explain the stagecraft of a murder?
  — Chris Barton, latimes.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• The White House stagecraft sent a clear and obvious message about the Middle East.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 18 May 2021
• The clever stagecraft used to grow the beanstalk was particularly fun.
  — Elizabeth Moore, NOLA.com, 28 July 2017
• The Man of the Woods tour, here for the final date of a 36-show opening leg before storming Europe, is heavy on the new stuff, in both set list and stagecraft.
  — Drew Lazor, Philly.com, 3 June 2018
• The dialogue is as brain-numbing as the stagecraft is eye-popping.
  — New York Times, 24 May 2018
• Trump is a consummate showman, and his stagecraft was top notch.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2018
• Such over-the-top stagecraft has always been a key feature in politics.
  — Washington Post, 10 May 2021
• Well, anyway, Bannon is better at the stagecraft these days.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 18 Aug. 2017
• Overheard conversations after the show weren’t as much about the plot or stagecraft as about the best cheap airlines to fly to the Caribbean on.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 14 Oct. 2021
• His show featured the same stagecraft, light on glitz and fireworks, but heavy on compelling, forceful images.
  — Shad Powers, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2017
• Harlow has the manner and power and the name of a movie star, holding the camera with an elusive presence; stagecraft is secondary.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 June 2019
• Smith appears to be offended that the film credits so much of Reagan's success to stagecraft.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 29 June 2017
• Just as this bravura piece of stagecraft was making its debut, the pandemic hit.
  — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 15 Jan. 2022
• Both have, since the 1960s, been Shakespearean in their stagecraft, although not in their language or subtlety of thought.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 27 July 2022
• The problem is, once one builds up the veneer, the relentless reinvention can become baked into the stagecraft.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 13 Sep. 2017
• The mud coming out of speakers at too many Broadway shows, supposedly the apex of stagecraft, is appalling.
  — Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2018
• But then, in a piece of stagecraft even this play’s planners could not have foreseen, Grayson returned from his phone to call to announce that Jenkins had just been released.
  — Rebecca Boggs Roberts, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023
• Their mandate was to spruce up the film with practical effects and vintage stagecraft trickery.
  — Daniel Engber, WIRED, 18 Nov. 2014
• The stagecraft played to Putin’s long-standing desire for Russia to be taken seriously as a major rival to the U.S.
  — Brian Bennett / Geneva, Time, 16 June 2021
• But other Iraqis felt that, behind the day's stagecraft, there were problems that hand-holding among leaders could not easily change.
  — Louisa Loveluck, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Mar. 2021
• Even with the occasional audio glitch or flubbed line, the stagecraft on display was impressive.
  — David Rooney, Billboard, 18 Dec. 2017
• Still, as a piece of stagecraft, the show is a symphony of theatermakers working at their pinnacle.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2021
• The play itself finds humor in the silliness of stagecraft, and the actors even acknowledge it in the show — joking about their props, desperately fanning the haze effect to match the scene’s action and the like.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 10 July 2021
• There’s also lots of fancy stagecraft, a re-creation of the iconic wedding dress, and lots of chorus members twirling around with paparazzi cameras.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2021
• The stagecraft was immaculate, and everyone involved seemed to be having a blast.
  — Tom Breihan, Billboard, 25 July 2017
• The show was structured around a couple of Oliva’s costume changes and the occasional bit of stagecraft where an element of the stage would lift her up or lower her down below.
  — Eric Fuller, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Sep 2024