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

"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

East Coast scenes are presented in black and white, the assorted proscenium and backstage settings filmed in old, 99-seat theaters in Chinchón and nearby towns.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 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