About: The Back-Stage Mother is difficult to evaluate. […] As a rule, you find her some place where she doesn't belong. If she is not standing in the wings to watch her adorable daughter perform, and thus interfering with the property-man, electrician, carpenter, stage manager, assistant stage manager and prompter, to say nothing of blocking an important entrance where players must push her out of the road to get onto the stage, she is almost certain to be out in front, cornering the company manager in the lobby.       Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink