noun
definition
The skills of the theater.
example
To be a professional actor you need to learn stagecraft.
definition
A specific skill of the theater.
example
Lighting is a very technical stagecraft.
Examples of stagecraft in a Sentence
In the development of characters and intellectual ideas Wagner's later works show a power before which his earlier stagecraft shrinks into insignificance.
The course delves deeper into the technical side o f playing, and explores stagecraft and band skills.
Moreover Silva possessed a knowledge of stagecraft, and, if he had lived, he might have emancipated the drama in Portugal from its dependence on foreign writers; but the triple licence of the Palace, the Ordinary and the Inquisition, which a play required, crippled spontaneity and freedom.
Later in the same year Echegaray won a popular triumph with La Esposa del vengador, in which the good and bad qualities-the clever stagecraft and unbridled extravaganceof his later work are clearly noticeable.
On the job training Picking up skills from an experienced colleague was a more common way of learning stagecraft.
Not until the third act does the great Wagner arbitrate in the struggle between amateurishness and theatricality in the music, though at all points his epoch-making stagecraft asserts itself with a force that tempts us to treat the whole work as if it were on the Wagnerian plane of Tannhauser's account of his pilgrimage in the third act.