proscenium

The proscenium frame was a giant hole blasted through a concrete wall with ends of rebar sticking out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

The stage retains the sweeping, curved proscenium that has defined the Dolby Theatre era, suggesting a similar visual approach at a larger scale, with expanded screen space and a more immersive ceiling design.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

Director Nancy Medina’s staging, circumnavigating a theatrical circle, lifts the audience out of its proscenium passivity into something almost immersive and definitely interactive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2025

"The story and the music itself was great for the Harris Theater, and honestly might have been dwarfed by this big gold proscenium with 3,500 seats."

From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2024

“Number twenty-three,” he says, before descending a small set of stairs near the proscenium and hovering by the edge of the front row, pen poised over his open notebook.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

These, however, are sufficient to mark out the circuit of the ancient orchestra, on which the subsequently built proscenia encroached.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various