stageworthiness

Noun

stageworthiness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being suitable or effective for theatrical performance; the attribute of a play, script, or production that makes it apt for presentation on stage.
   • The thousands of persons that relied upon the press for their judgments of the stageworthiness of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, as also the majority of the censorious who were careful to get their impressions at first hand, by going to see it at ten dollars a head, constituted a peculiarly nondescript...1905 October – 1906 January, The International Quarterly, volume XII, New York: FOX, DUFFIELD & COMPANY, page 365
   • The professional dramatist, whether independent or attached by contract to a particular company, sold his script and all subsquent rights to the companies, and to do so he needed to persuade these potential buyers of the stageworthiness of his work, not simply its dramatic merit.1986 October, Wendy Griswold, Renaissance Revivals: City Comedy and Revenge Tragedy in the London Theater, 1576-1980, University of Chicago Press, page 31