stage doors
Performers' private entrances
Stage doors are the entrances at the back or side of a theater used by performers and crew rather than the audience.
Fans often gather at the stage door hoping to meet actors after a show: We waited by the stage door for autographs.
The term evokes the boundary between public performance and private backstage life.
- performersThose who entertain audiences
- actorsThose playing roles
- call timeRequest play stoppage
- cast partyPost-production celebration for performers
- opening nightFirst staged performance
autograph seekers · access · entrance · back entrance · private entrance · musicians · theatre · stagehand · curtain call · threshold · dressing rooms · green room · exits · keeper · wings · egress · alley · portal
- Elizabethan theaterBlackfriars, Globe Theatre, groundlings, heavens, trapdoor
- Restoration Theatertragicomedy, playhouses, theatrical companies, prologues, epilogues
theater entrance type
stage doorsmain entrance
Principal point of entry
front of house · public entrance · house doors · foyer · grand entrance
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