Her scenes seem to meander along until they stumble over a suitable curtain line.

Ms. Gilman has no answers, only one simple powerful question, which is the play's curtain line.

And even though a couple of eruptive scenes lead to a predictable resolution, winning remains an issue, right down to the curtain line.

The search for a good first- or second-act curtain line continued well into the 20th.

It was a great curtain line, but it was Friday who had the last word.

It sounded encouragingly like a curtain line, and sure enough, the doors slid across.

The curtain line, a most peculiar spin on Ibsen makes the playwright's sensibility hard to figure.

Mary took that to be his curtain line.

"He didn't even get a decent curtain line."

Leo summoned all his energy for the curtain line: "A Night Off!"