An array of lighting mounted to the front of the stage floor and directed back to illuminate the cast. Used today only for special effects due to more powerful overhead lighting.

Long strip of lights along the front of the stage

Once a common feature in theatres, this row of lights across the front edge of the stage is rarely employed today. Even so, you may still hear someone say of an actor: "He really projects across the footlights."

prop n. 1. Cambridge comedy troupe. 2. Mexican restaurant in the Grafton Centre.

a university drama society devoted mainly to comic revues.

Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club, commonly referred to simply as the Footlights, is an amateur theatrical club in Cambridge, England, run by the students of Cambridge University and now also the Anglia Ruskin University (formerly Anglia Polytechnic University). It was founded in 1883.