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 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

The centerpiece of Chicago’s wildly successful Millennium Park, the bandshell’s billowing 120-foot proscenium, supported by a web of aluminum arms, is fronted by dozens of torqued stainless steel ribbons, which exuberantly frame the stage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025

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

“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