Stage

Stage or Stages can mean one of the following:

Arts and media
Acting
 Stage (theatre), a platform on which actors in a theatre perform
 Theatre, a branch of the performing arts, often referred to as "the stage"
 The Stage, a weekly British theatre newspaper

Songs
 "Stages" (song), by ZZ Top, 1986

Science
Stage (geology), a period of time, shorter than an epoch

Other uses
Stagecoach, a vehicle pulled by horses
A step of development, or one particular event in a chain of events, or one particular step in a number of steps