Stage

Stage or Stages can mean one of the following:

• Stage (theatre), a platform on which actors in a theatre perform
• Theatre, a branch of the performing arts, often referred to as "the stage"
• The Stage, a weekly British theatre newspaper

• "Stages" (song), by ZZ Top, 1986

• Stage (geology), a period of time, shorter than an epoch

• Stagecoach, a vehicle pulled by horses
• A step of development, or one particular event in a chain of events, or one particular step in a number of steps