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A hanging cloth that conceals the stage from the view of the audience; rises or parts at the beginning and descends or closes between acts and at the end of a performance.

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Like a theatre curtain being slowly raised, the mist lifted from the surface of the water.
A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" / From the Diary of Number Five of ...
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The bed's drapes are already tied back, like theatre curtains.
The crimson petal and the white
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A series of theatre curtains create stages within stages, and mimic the permanently raised eyebrows of her ironic prose.
The Guardian
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There was nothing else in the room but a closed theater curtain along one wall.
Samurai
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The clouds parted like a theater curtain, to where a lemon sun poured warmth and light from a salmon-colored sky.
The Great Book of Amber
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A 19-by-20-foot theater curtain "Le Tricorne" painted by Pablo Picasso hangs at the Four Seasons restaurant in New York City, April 1, 2014.
Reuters
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There is no hurry about the article on theater curtains.
Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 1 / from Paris to Rome: Years o...
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The wind combed through the trees around the dilapidated little house, and the rain came and went like the drawing and undrawing of theater curtains.
Boneshaker
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