proscenium
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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 theater’s traditional proscenium stage, which Lea Michele not so long ago set ablaze in her performance as Fanny Brice in the revival of “Funny Girl,” has been reconfigured into an in-the-round auditorium.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2024
The surprise is how well the space works for dance despite no proscenium to hang lights from, or wings for the dancers to disappear into.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 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
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
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