0 to take people's attention away from someone and make them listen to or look at you instead: --
Most supporting bands tend to be youngsters, and rarely upstage the star.
1 towards or at the part of a theatre stage that is furthest from the people watching the performance: --
2 to take people’s attention away from someone and make them listen to or look at you instead: --
The mayor doesn’t like to be upstaged by his subordinates – he likes to make all the public announcements.
The recent upsurge in guerrilla violence rather upstages his successes against the cartels.
He seldom troubles to verify a reference or document a case, his rejections tend to be magisterially dismissive, his judgements readily upstage even his most august victims.
In the opening scene of this highly stylized production, the stage is almost bare, but for a small tree upstage right and an altar upstage centre.
The four oppressors upstage walked towards four young men centre stage, holding their chairs in front of them like shields, and slowly shoved the young men offstage.
Lacking co-ordinates in the theatrical space, all movement must be related to the stage, to the theatre space: characters enter from 'upstage right', not from next door or the street.
As noted in the essay above, upstage entrances for the choristers were apparently the exception to the rule.
With the removal of the niche circle, the stage would have possessed sufficient entrances, though all decidedly upstage.
In nearer zones, the depth information effectively specifies the tracks as parallel and holds the backdrop in its place upstage.
