off-stage

The hardest work seems to take place off-stage, when comedians are forced to evaluate themselves to make necessary tweaks and improvements.

Danny Groner: Seeing Comedy Get Made, and Made Better Danny Groner 2011

The hardest work seems to take place off-stage, when comedians are forced to evaluate themselves to make necessary tweaks and improvements.

Danny Groner: Seeing Comedy Get Made, and Made Better Danny Groner 2011

The central figure in both parts, the “Mother” of the title, is off-stage, for the simple reason that she died 25 or 30 years earlier.

Theater 2009

The hardest work seems to take place off-stage, when comedians are forced to evaluate themselves to make necessary tweaks and improvements.

Danny Groner: Seeing Comedy Get Made, and Made Better Danny Groner 2011

In my next story I posited humans in a four-dimensional cage, put there by more powerful off-stage aliens.

Archive 2010-02-01 Blue Tyson 2010

He was killed to make way for Wally's return (under Meltzer), who was then promptly shoved off-stage to make way for Barry's return (under Johns).

Was this trip really necessary? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

For two decades, AC Propulsion held a quiet off-stage seat in electric-vehicle development.

Car News: Buy and Sell, New and Used Cars, Reviews & Research 2010

Probably the finest actor-dancer of his generation, he trained and danced with the Royal Danish Ballet before coming to Covent Garden, where he has established a notable partnership, both on and off-stage, with the Romanian ballerina Alina Cojocaru.

The Royal Ballet: a new era awaits 2011

That the “off-stage” elements and scantily referenced back story prompted such a wide range of reactions, from distaste to confusion to praise, is instructive.

GLASS HOUSES • by TW Williams 2009

With a classy off-stage band playing from the gallery, the whole piece shone like a jewel in a fairy queen's crown.

The Turn of the Screw; BBC Proms 32, 35, 36 – review 2011