Make sure the stage is available/created when referencing it. If you are getting a null error - it might be because the stage is not available yet - this can happen when you call stage in the applications contentCreationComplete /init handler.
I always use
if(stage){
stage.color = ..... //access stage
}
that way if the stage isn't available, it won't error.
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