downstage

Cave would often make a mad dash between his piano and downstage, making a show of it as he danced his fingers across the keys.

He not only conducted the orchestra upstage, but regularly pivoted to turn downstage, cuing the principal singers when they needed it.

DeBessonet’s staging, refined but little altered from the Encores! outing, uses only a wide set of stairs and a downstage strip in front of them.

We see her in close-up on a screen downstage, her image frustratingly out of sync with the sound of her voice, which travels faster.

Kushner remembers how moments before the final confrontation between Biff and Willy Loman in “Death of a Salesman” Garfield would walk downstage and smoke a cigarette, leaning into a spot of red light.