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proscenium

[proh-see-nee-uhm, pruh-] / proʊˈsi ni əm, prə- /


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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

“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




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