In Center Stage’s ‘Amadeus,’ in-character actors mingle with audiences in the lobby

Actress Sarah Olmsted Thomas would like to teach you how to play chess.

The D.C.-based performer — best known for her work with Happenstance and No Rules theaters — is making her Center Stage debut as one of nine ensemble members in “Amadeus.” She doesn’t utter a line during the show — she laughs, applauds and dances — but beforehand, she’s a chatterbox, interacting with patrons in an elaborate pre-show devised by director Kwame Kwei Armah. Half an hour before curtain, the ensemble members gather in the lobby and go about their late-18th-century business: playing chess, dancing and primping their towering wigs before vanity mirrors.

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