backstage

/ˌˈbækˌsteɪdʒ/

/bækˈsteɪdʒ/

Backstage is the area of a theater where the actors wait until it's time to walk onstage and play their parts. The audience can't see what's going on backstage.

If you get a backstage pass at a rock concert, it means you'll get to go behind the scenes once the show is over, and possibly meet the musicians in person. Many people who are involved in a show, performance, or play stay backstage the whole time: costume designers, makeup directors, and set painters, for example. The word is also sometimes used in a figurative way to mean "secret" or "behind the scenes."

Definitions of backstage

1. noun

   a stage area out of sight of the audience
   synonyms: offstage, wing

   type of:

   stage

   a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience
2. adverb

   in or to a backstage area of a theater
   “costumes were changed backstage”
3. adverb

   out of view of the public; behind the scenes
   “Working backstage to gain political support for his proposal”

   “many private deals were made backstage at the convention”
4. adjective

   concealed from public view or attention
   synonyms: offstage

   private

   confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy