How to say "backstage" in Japanese

• 楽屋がくやCommon
  nounCovers 'backstage' in the concrete sense of the dressing room or green room: the room where performers change costume, do their makeup, and rest before or after going on stage.
  それから二に階かいの楽屋がくやに歩あるいていきました。↗

  Then I walked upstairs to the dressing rooms.
• 舞台裏ぶたいうらCommon
  nounCovers the area behind or off the stage itself — 'offstage' — and, figuratively, 'behind the scenes': the hidden side of how something is arranged or run. The broader term for backstage as a space.

Use 楽屋 for the dressing room itself, where performers change and rest; use 舞台裏 for the area behind or off the stage generally, and for the figurative 'behind the scenes' of how things are run.

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• 楽屋がくやdressing room
• 舞台裏ぶたいうらoffstage
• バックステージbackstage
• 楽屋裏がくやうらdressing room