to direct; director (film etc)

to play the leading role; to star; lead actor

to perform (a play etc); to stage (a show); (bound form) to develop; to play out; to carry out (a task)

to play the role of; to act

to screen (a movie); to stage (a play); a screening; a staging

to perform (in a play, film, concert etc); to play the part of; to portray

(theater etc) to tour; to be on tour; to give itinerant performances (abbr. for 巡迴演出|巡回演出[xun2 hui2 yan3 chu1])

to recur (of events, esp. adverse ones); to repeat (a performance)

to act; to play a part

to perform in public; to give a performance

maiden stage role; first performance; first public showing

to rehearse (a performance)

audition; dress rehearsal; preview (of a theatrical performance); dummy run

dummy run; to run through sth; to rehearse

(of a play, movie etc) to begin

to take part in a performance; to appear in (a movie etc)

an extra (in a movie) (abbr. for 臨時演員|临时演员[lin2 shi2 yan3 yuan2])

benefit performance; charity show

military exercises

to put on extra shows; to extend the run (of a show); to include an additional element in a show

inversion (geometry)

to act together; to put on a joint performance

commercial performance

natural change; evolution (early translation, since replaced by 進化|进化)

(dialect) to perform; to act (in a play etc)

to deduce; to infer; to derive; an implication

drill; exercise; demonstration; to demonstrate

variant of 敷衍; to elaborate (on a theme); to expound (the meaning of the classics)

(Tw) to screen a movie

joint performance

to ban (a play or movie)

extra (actor engaged to appear in a crowd scene) (abbr. for 群眾演員|群众演员[qun2 zhong4 yan3 yuan2])

to lecture; to speak publicly

road show or promotional tour (for a product etc)

to stop performing a play; to interrupt a stage run

war-gaming; simulation of a military operation

history repeats itself

to repeat an old stratagem; up to one's old tricks

fashion show

(of an actor) to play a role that matches one's own character or personality

to plan a military mission on a sand table (idiom); to rehearse a planned action or activity; to conduct a dry run

to go on stage

joint military exercise

to direct a movie in which one also plays a major role as an actor; (fig.) to plan and execute a scheme all by oneself

leading actors (in a show); starring