Stage or stages may refer to:
Acting
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Stage (theatre)
In theatre and performing arts, the stage (sometimes referred to as the deck in stagecraft) is a designated space for the performance of productions. The stage serves as a space for actors or performers and a focal point (the screen in ci ...
, a space for the performance of theatrical productions
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Theatre
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...
, a branch of the performing arts, often referred to as "the stage"
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The Stage
''The Stage'' is a British weekly newspaper and website covering the entertainment industry and particularly theatre. It was founded in 1880. It contains news, reviews, opinion, features, and recruitment advertising, mainly directed at those wh ...
'', a weekly British theatre newspaper
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Stages Repertory Theatre
Stages (Houston) is a theatre company in the city of Houston, Texas formerly known as Stages Repertory Theatre. It produces performances at The Gordy, the company's three-stage venue that opened in 2020 in Houston's Montrose, Houston, Montrose neig ...
, a theatre company in Houston, Texas
Music
* Stage, an American band featuring
Ryan Star
Ryan Stahr Kulchinsky (born January 7, 1978) is an American rock singer-songwriter from Long Island, New York, currently signed on Island Records. His first major label record '' 11:59'', released via Atlantic in 2010, reached No. 31 on Billb ...
* ''Stage'', a 2002 book and DVD documenting Britney Spears'
Dream Within a Dream Tour
The Dream Within a Dream Tour was the fourth concert tour by American entertainer Britney Spears. It was launched in support of her third studio album, '' Britney'' (2001). The tour was promoted by Concerts West, marking the first time Spears di ...
Albums
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''Stage'' (David Bowie album), 1978
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''Stage'' (Great White album), 1995
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''Stage'' (Keller Williams album), 2004
* ''Stage'', by
Mónica Naranjo
Mónica Naranjo Carrasco (born 23 May 1974) is a Spanish singer widely popular in Spain and Latin America and recognised as one of the most powerful voices of the Spanish and Latin American music scenes. She has performed with singers such as Luc ...
, 2009
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''The Stage'' (album), by Avenged Sevenfold, or the title song (see below), 2016
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''Stages'' (Cassadee Pope album), 2019
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''Stages'' (Elaine Paige album), 1983
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''Stages'' (Eric Clapton album), 1993
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''Stages'' (Jimi Hendrix album), 1991
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''Stages'' (Josh Groban album), 2015
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''Stages'' (Melanie C album), 2012
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''Stages'' (Triumph album), 1985
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''Stages'' (Vedera album), 2009
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Stages: The Lost Album'', by Eric Andersen, 1991
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Stages: Performances 1970–2002'', by Neil Diamond, 2003
* ''Stages'', by
David Benoit
David Bryan Benoit (born August 18, 1953) is an American jazz pianist, composer and producer, based in Los Angeles, California, United States. Benoit has charted over 25 albums since 1980, and has been nominated for three Grammy Awards. He is a ...
, 1982
* ''Stages'', by
the Electric Soft Parade
The Electric Soft Parade are an English psychedelic pop band from Brighton, comprising brothers Alex and Thomas White, the creative core of the band, as well as a number of other musicians with whom they record and perform live, most recently ...
, 2020
* ''Stages'', by
Ella Koon
Ella Koon Yun-na (born 9 July 1979) is a former Hong Kong Cantopop singer and semi-retired actress.
Biography
Ella Koon was born in the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, and is of Hakka descent. She was raised in Hong Kong and attended high sch ...
, 2008
* ''Stages'', by
Jill Vidal
Jill Vidal () often referred to as Wei Si or simply as Jill, is a Hong Kong-based female urban pop singer. Vidal is of Korean and Filipino ethnicity with British nationality
British nationality law prescribes the conditions under which a ...
, 2022
Songs
* "Stage", by Live from ''
Throwing Copper
''Throwing Copper'' is the third studio album by American alternative rock band Live, released on April 26, 1994, on former MCA Records subsidiary Radioactive Records. It was produced by Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads and was recorded at Pach ...
'', 1994
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"The Stage" (song), by Avenged Sevenfold, 2016
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"Stages" (song), by ZZ Top, 1986
* "Stages", by Reks from ''
Grey Hairs
Grey Hairs is the third studio album by American rapper Reks
Corey Isiah Christie (born August 24, 1977), better known as Reks (styled in all caps as REKS), is an American rapper. Reks emerged from Lawrence, Massachusetts' underground rap s ...
'', 2008
People with the surname
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Ruth Stage
Ruth Stage is a British artist who uses the ancient egg tempera painting technique in her work, and is known for her landscapes. Born in Hartlepool, Stage studied at the Royal Academy Schools, graduating in 1995. In 1999 she was elected to the New ...
, British artist
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Wm. Stage
Wm. Stage, also known as William Stage (born June 30, 1951) is an American journalist, author, and photographer, with a focus on the area and history of the American Midwest and St. Louis, Missouri. From 1982 to 2004 he worked for the weekly newsp ...
(born 1951), American journalist, writer and photographer
Transport
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Stagecoach
A stagecoach is a four-wheeled public transport coach used to carry paying passengers and light packages on journeys long enough to need a change of horses. It is strongly sprung and generally drawn by four horses although some versions are draw ...
* Stage, a type of
limousine
A limousine ( or ), or limo () for short, is a large, chauffeur-driven luxury vehicle with a partition between the driver compartment and the passenger compartment.
A very long wheelbase luxury sedan (with more than four doors) driven by a prof ...
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Linear stage
A linear stage or translation stage is a component of a precise motion system used to restrict an object to a single axis of motion. The term linear slide is often used interchangeably with "linear stage", though technically "linear slide" refer ...
, a component of precise motion system
Other uses
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Special stage (rallying)
A special stage (SS) is a section of closed road at a stage rallying event used for timed speed tests. Racers attempt to complete the stage in the shortest time. A race on a special stage is coordinated such that each competing racer begins after ...
, in rally racing
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''Stage'' (film), a 1951 Bollywood film
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Stage (stratigraphy)
In chronostratigraphy, a stage is a succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic timescale, which usually represents millions of years of deposition. A given stage of rock and the corresponding age of time will by conventi ...
, a set of rock strata with the same age
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The Stage (Antarctica) The Stage is a prominent moraine floored amphitheater (a cirque) between West Aisle Ridge and Central Aisle Ridge on the north side of Renegar Glacier, Scott Coast. The cirque floor, at , is relatively flat. The feature was visited by D. N. B. Skinn ...
, a moraine in Antarctica
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The Stage, Shoreditch
The Stage in Shoreditch is a new mixed-use development from London property developer Galliard Homes, Cain Hoy, McCourt Global, Vanke and The Estate Office Shoreditch. The development is set to include a 37-storey residential tower, over 250,000 sq ...
, a mixed-use development
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Staging (pathology)
Cancer staging is the process of determining the extent to which a cancer has developed by growing and spreading. Contemporary practice is to assign a number from I to IV to a cancer, with I being an isolated cancer and IV being a cancer that ha ...
or cancer staging
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Stage (bicycle race)
A race stage, leg, or heat is a unit of a race that has been divided in several parts for the reason such as length of the distance to be covered, as in a multi-day event. Usually, such a race consists of "ordinary" stages, but sometimes stages ...
, a leg in a bicycle race
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Stage (cooking)
Staging is an unpaid internship test when a cook or chef works briefly for free (or to gain a position) in another chef's kitchen to learn and be exposed to new techniques and cuisines. The term originates from the French word ''stagiaire'' meani ...
, a period of work experience in a kitchen
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Stage Stores Inc., an American department store company
* Stage, auxiliary
breathing gas cylinder used in scuba diving
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Level (video gaming)
In video games, a level (also referred to as a map, stage, or round in some older games) is any space available to the player during the course of completion of an objective. Video game levels generally have progressively-increasing difficulty t ...
* Stage (
stream gauge
A stream gauge, streamgage or stream gauging station is a location used by hydrologists or environmental scientists to monitor and test terrestrial bodies of water. Hydrometric measurements of water level surface elevation ("stage") and/or volu ...
), a measurement of water level in a river, stream, pond, lake, or estuary
* Stage, or
apprenticeship
Apprenticeship is a system for training a new generation of practitioners of a Tradesman, trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study (classroom work and reading). Apprenticeships can also enable practitioners ...
** Stage, the training programme of the
European Commission
The European Commission (EC) is the executive of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with 27 members of the Commission (informally known as "Commissioners") headed by a President. It includes an administrative body o ...
in Brussels and Luxembourg
* ''
Stages on Life's Way
''Stages on Life's Way'' ( da, Stadier på Livets Vej; historical orthography: ''Stadier paa Livets Vej'') is a philosophical work by Søren Kierkegaard written in 1845. The book was written as a continuation of Kierkegaard's prior work ''Either/O ...
'', an 1845 philosophical work by the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard
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Calligra Stage
Calligra Stage (formerly ''KPresenter'') is a free presentation program that is part of the Calligra Suite, an integrated office suite developed by KDE.
Calligra Stage's native export format is OpenDocument. Stage is able to load presentation do ...
, a presentation program
* S.T.A.G.E., the
Scientists, Technologists and Artists Generating Exploration Scientists, Technologists and Artists Generating Exploration (''STAGE'') was created in 2005 to encourage collaboration between artists and scientists. Originally, it began as a partnership between the Professional Artists Lab and the California Nan ...
program at the University of California, Santa Barbara
* The platform and that supports a slide in an
optical microscope
The optical microscope, also referred to as a light microscope, is a type of microscope that commonly uses visible light and a system of lenses to generate magnified images of small objects. Optical microscopes are the oldest design of microsco ...
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Stage (hydrology)
In hydrology, stage refers to the water level in a river or stream with respect to a chosen reference height. Stage is important because direct measurements of river discharge are very difficult while water surface elevation measurements are comp ...
See also
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Condition (disambiguation)
Condition or conditions may refer to:
In philosophy and logic
* Material conditional, a logical connective used to form "if...then..." statements
* Necessary and sufficient condition, a statement which is true if and only if another given statem ...
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Developmental stage theories
In psychology, developmental stage theories are theories that divide psychological development into distinct stages which are characterized by qualitative differences in behavior. Developmental stage theories are one type of structural stage theo ...
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Feeling
Feelings are subjective self-contained phenomenal experiences. According to the ''APA Dictionary of Psychology'', a feeling is "a self-contained phenomenal experience"; and feelings are "subjective, evaluative, and independent of the sensations ...
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Multistage rocket
A multistage rocket or step rocket is a launch vehicle that uses two or more rocket ''stages'', each of which contains its own engines and propellant. A ''tandem'' or ''serial'' stage is mounted on top of another stage; a ''parallel'' stage i ...
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Period (disambiguation)
Period may refer to:
Common uses
* Era, a length or span of time
* Full stop (or period), a punctuation mark
Arts, entertainment, and media
* Period (music), a concept in musical composition
* Periodic sentence (or rhetorical period), a concept ...
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Phase (disambiguation)
Phase or phases may refer to:
Science
*State of matter, or phase, one of the distinct forms in which matter can exist
*Phase (matter), a region of space throughout which all physical properties are essentially uniform
*Phase space, a mathematica ...
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Social role
A role (also rôle or social role) is a set of connected behaviors, rights, obligations, beliefs, and norms as conceptualized by people in a social situation. It is an expected or free or continuously changing behavior and may have a given indivi ...
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