proscenium
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The last decade has seen a harlequinade of big shots, celebrities, pundits and politicians bounding across the proscenium wearing stage makeup and playing different characters successively, like Peter Sellers in “Dr. Strangelove.”
From Salon • Dec. 20, 2025
None of the proscenium is actually there, nor are the musicians heard running scales and rehearsing “Follow the Yellow Brick Road.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 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
The Delacorte was, she said, her group’s first proscenium experience in New York.
From New York Times • May 30, 2024
But just when I thought I was going to get away, the creaky machinery of his face began to grind and a cardboard dawn of recognition was lowered, with jerks, from the dusty proscenium.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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