| 单词 | proscenium |
| 例句 | 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. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “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. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z And will designers have scope for the kind of long-distance pictorial perspective provided by proscenium stages? The thrust of the problem for the RSC's new stage 2010-11-24T10:28:00Z Like a lot of people in theatre, I used to see the traditional proscenium arch stage as elitist. Is intimate theatre 'decadent'? 2011-08-09T11:46:36Z But the beam-me-up rays of light are pulled away to reveal a floating proscenium, gilded at the edges and decorated with a landscape mural. Review: Anthony Davis’s Malcolm X Opera Finally Arrives at the Met 2023-11-05T04:00:00Z Also, each has a unique physical ambience quite different from a standard proscenium presentation, matched with a unique musical environment. Natasha, Pierre, Imelda Marcos and you: Immersive new Off-Broadway musicals 2013-07-11T19:25:59Z He breaks through the fourth wall, of proscenium illusion, but, even more importantly, he breaks through the fifth wall, of the performer’s desire to be loved. How a Lost Marx Brothers Musical Found Its Way Back Onstage 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z In Act 2, rubble from the wrecked proscenium strews the stage, the remnants of the Minstrels' Hall in the Wartburg castle, where Tannhaeuser takes part in a song contest. Wagner's 'Tannhaeuser' in time of war 2010-12-13T15:00:00Z Box clever ... a proscenium arch stage at the Theatre Royal in London. What's so wrong with proscenium arch theatre? 2010-07-19T11:36:00Z Snakes twist up and around the largest proscenium, and another is entwined in thick vines. | 'Zarkana': Radio City Is Transformed Into a Cirque Tent 2011-06-30T02:01:16Z The open-sided utilitarian space, its raised platform backed by a stark vertical cut through with a ventilation seam, resembled nothing so much as a proscenium from a de Chirico painting. Finding Mexico City, and Luis Barragán, Again 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z He’s the one who suggested that the action was actually set inside Socrates’ body, complete with a fabric-draped proscenium as the rib cage. Taylor Mac’s ‘Fever Dream’: Exploring the Philosophy of the Hang 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z As sheep grazed around us, Sofia Graves, the granddaughter of Robert Graves, the author and poet, led me across a terraced field toward a proscenium and stone steps built into the hillside in the 1960s. Robert Graves Found ‘Perfect Tranquillity’ in Majorca 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z Even before the show starts, the audience sees, instead of the traditional scarlet Broadway show curtain, a series of narrow, folded silver vertical planes, framed within a metal proscenium. How ‘Some Like It Hot’ Tunes In to the Jazz Age 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Basically, everywhere: from Broadway to bar basements to parks to proscenium stages, and in films and on television. Best Dance of 2019 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the humans' area, in story terms directly above the Clocks, is actually set on one of those handy extensions on either side of the theater's proscenium. Pocket-size people under the floor make comic mayhem 2010-10-13T18:56:00Z The Brooks Atkinson proscenium has been tricked up to suggest a Victorian music hall. Theater Review: ?Peter and the Starcatcher,? With Christian Borle 2012-04-16T02:57:15Z Five stools are lined up along a faux-wood counter, and above it a thin space opens like a proscenium onto a small kitchen, crusted black with age and smoke but hardly dirty. 2010-01-30T05:09:00Z You'll find light, airy stalls, an ornate balcony and a proscenium arch with comfortable raked seats. Unrestricted views: New Hampshire's Palace theatre 2012-06-14T14:28:16Z The desiccated procedure of modern life soon reveals itself as a proscenium. The Two Faces of Suicide 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z But after the novel coronavirus pandemic shuttered the city and scattered the cast and crew to their respective homes, Heard and company suddenly had to think outside the proscenium. Perspective | Covid-era opera is getting more intimate, accessible and experimental 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z It's a fitting farewell to this curious little stage, neither traditionally proscenium nor entirely thrust, that gave rise to a unique form of theatre-in-a-semi-circle. The Importance of Being Earnest 2010-06-11T20:29:00Z To either side of the proscenium are murals depicting the United Artists Theatre’s founders, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin, in heroic poses. | Hotel California 2014-02-10T15:38:38Z Meanwhile, smaller, more experimentally minded opera outfits have been using the uncertainty of the crisis as the milieu for new work, and hacking the corporate contours of Zoom into a postmodern proscenium of sorts. Perspective | Covid-era opera is getting more intimate, accessible and experimental 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z The centerpiece was a music festival–caliber stage, complete with a towering proscenium arch and faux painted curtains that framed two live drummers, backlit by electric stars. A Look at the Set of Tommy Hilfiger’s Spring 2015 Show 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z A decaying proscenium looms over the stage, and as the play begins, we see two workmen with flashlights exploring what appears to be a defunct theater, discovering a trunk of old commedia dell’arte masks. Review: ‘The Servant of Two Masters,’ and His Misfortunes 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z And on the curtain of the smaller proscenium appear emblazoned in large print the words “The Story of Cymbeline.” Review: ‘Cymbeline’ Unspools Its Many Plot Twists at the Delacorte Theater 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z The move to the Nederlander is a wholesale improvement for the show, which benefits enormously from the enclosed confines of a traditional proscenium stage. Review | With the opening of ‘The Lehman Trilogy,’ Broadway just got smarter — and more exciting 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z A brightly crayoned Pollock's toy theatre pops up in its place, its flat proscenium arch festooned with pictures of the Cheshire Cat and Captain Hook. Peter and Alice; The Low Road – review 2013-03-31T00:05:46Z Mr. Lunney, in a dark suit, performs on a bare black set with only a hint of theatrical artifice: a wry proscenium arch near the back of the stage. | 'Gary the Thief' and 'Plevna: Meditations on Hatred': Howard Barker?s Poetic Plays at Atlantic Stage 2 2010-07-20T21:17:00Z On display inside the garden’s conservatory in the Bronx are more than 300 types of orchids, shaped like a proscenium stage, a giant chandelier and other architectural forms characteristic of a Broadway house. A Grand Stage for a Diva Plant 2011-03-02T22:39:36Z He visited Africa for the first time during college with director and theater professor Mike Malone, working in Ghana to preserve and celebrate rituals with performances on a proscenium stage. Chadwick Boseman, who embodied Black icons, dies of cancer 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z As the guests mingled, he asked them to step into the frame of his makeshift “proscenium,” trying for as much spontaneity as possible. Richard Avedon’s Wall-Size Ambitions 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z It’s not that everyone does operas in cars — that’s not the point — but maybe opera companies think beyond the proscenium. Bayreuth’s First American Director Made Wagner a Feminist. What Now? 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z Other recent plays there, like “Tribes” and “Our Town,” were performed in the round, but Mr. Bagert said that “Buyer & Cellar” would continue to be staged as a proscenium show. ArtsBeat: ‘Buyer & Cellar’ Moving to Larger Theater 2013-05-02T16:58:55Z Unlike Mr. Vick, he treated the theater as an ordinary space with a proscenium stage whose acoustic didn’t flatter the voices. An Italian Festival Presents Verdi on His Own Turf 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Less than a year ago, the Trisha Brown Dance Company performed what were to be its final programs of works for the traditional proscenium stage. The Persistence of Vision (Trisha Brown’s, That Is) 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z And this week affords more chances to experience dance in different forms: on the proscenium stage, in a book, on the street and in a new music video. Dance This Week: Momix Comes to Joyce Theater, New York Becomes Tap City 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Beyond is a very dark room containing a floor-to-ceiling proscenium; and beyond that another room, screened by a translucent, angled wall, everything suffused in deep red. How the Hayward Gallery's Light Show monkeys with your eyeballs 2013-01-28T18:33:05Z The set designer Mitchell Greenberg’s proscenium for “Til Divorce Do Us Part: The Musical” nicely suggests the show: enlarged Valentine’s Day candies — those hearts inscribed with messages — surround the stage. Theater Review: ‘Til Divorce Do Us Part,’ a Musical Based on Real Life 2014-02-20T23:44:04Z The space sports a small proscenium stage, with chairs on the floor — which occasionally creates a sightline challenge when action occurs at floor level. Review: 'Jason and Medea' by Theatre 9/12 is love, battle, betrayal 2011-02-03T21:04:07Z "It's hard. I always think the universe that the actors work in is more than the proscenium, it's one of the most important characters." Ridley Scott's 'Exodus' casts a wide net of spectacle and family 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z The scene onstage was nothing but surreal — fragmented light beams suggesting a proscenium; towering, billowing curtains lit in dreamy shades of blue, their translucence revealing the impression of a building facade beyond. ‘The Hours’ Becomes an Opera. Don’t Expect the Book or Film. 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z There was a little proscenium stage, and lots of acts came in. The God of ‘SNL’ Will See You Now 2013-08-22T11:53:25Z The remnants of a rickety wooden roller coaster wrap around a small, antique proscenium. Review: ‘Ride the Cyclone,’ About Teenagers, and Angst, in Purgatory 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z With the audience on two sides of the stage, the show is performed for the most part as if it were a proscenium piece, playing to only one section. Review: ‘Music Hall,’ a Meditation in Stage Poetry by Jean-Luc Lagarce 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Kinley’s design also features lots of distressed-looking wood sprouting beyond the proscenium to encompass the boxes that flank the stage. Theater Review: ‘Les Misérables’ Returns to Broadway 2014-03-24T02:00:01Z The beautiful red velvet curtain is shown on the sides of the proscenium arch. “Life Story,” Virginia Lee Burton’s Picture Book for the Ages 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z As was watching performances outside, which is a challenge with bringing traditional dance to the proscenium stage. Living the Golden Life: DanceAfrica Welcomes Ghana to Brooklyn 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Second, does the proscenium arch really represent the triumph of the middle classes? What's so wrong with proscenium arch theatre? 2010-07-19T11:36:00Z Portraits of Shakespeare and Edwin Booth, one of the great Shakespearean actors of the 19th century, loom above its small, ornate proscenium arch. A Red State’s Arts Blues 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Rather than the dancers being up on an elevated proscenium stage with an audience sitting below them, the dancers were in an enclosed space was lined with mirrors on the ceiling and all the walls. How working in a strip club taught "Neon Girls" author lessons about unions and solidarity 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Angelica Borrero’s apartment set is also excellent; bonus points for the clever way she incorporates Rattlestick’s upstage proscenium into the structure of the family’s home. The Fourth Wall Is My Laptop Screen 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Already, the traditional proscenium arch is cleverly stretched. Mundo Paralelo ? review 2011-03-10T17:40:11Z Her works, full of wit and rigor, unfolded on rooftops and rafts and even on the sides of buildings as well as in lofts and galleries, and later on proscenium stages. Sending the Trisha Brown Legacy Back Into the World 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z But bringing such an immersive concept to a large, proscenium venue like Shakespeare Theatre’s Harman Center for the Arts was a challenge. Enda Walsh steps outside the Irish playwriting box 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z The Venetians gather at the edge of the proscenium in a forbidding, exclusionary wall. Review: A Flock of Shylocks Transforms ‘Merchant of Venice’ 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z The Joyce has requested a 1,000-seat proscenium theater, as well as a ground-floor rehearsal space visible from the street and an outdoor amphitheater on the roof. Carnegie Mellon and Utah Students Imagine Ground Zero Space 2011-12-21T22:56:00Z I think a proscenium has a lot to do with focussing your attention. Linda Ronstadt Has Found Another Voice 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z Vicki Mortimer’s set divides the proscenium into four parts: The actual story plays out only in the lower right quadrant, two other quadrants serve as the angels’ staging areas, and one remains pregnantly empty. ‘Written on Skin’ brings theater to opera stage 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z On Tuesday his company, Shen Wei Dance Arts, unveiled a new version, adapted from its original proscenium setting for an audience in the round. Dance Review: Shen Wei Dance Arts Performs at Judson Memorial Church 2014-04-30T20:49:29Z The table in front hangs out over the sidewalk, with a kind of proscenium above it, and passing Brooklynites couldn’t help but stare: Oh yeah, that guy, the big, scary one. Theater: He Looks Like a Big, Scary Guy Because He Is One 2010-12-26T02:24:21Z Past the proscenium is a vaulted colonnade that narrows almost imperceptibly until it reaches another gallery. A Grand Stage for a Diva Plant 2011-03-02T22:39:36Z The performance unfolded in a series of entrances and exits in-studio and not on a proscenium stage. In-your-face Tchaikovsky from American Contemporary Ballet 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z "This is theater's reaction to the screen and to the proscenium as a type of screen," Zalewski says. Immersive theater appeals to audiences wanting to take part in art 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z The opera, in English, finds Conway at his unnerving best, however, as arc lights rake the auditorium, and the glitzy proscenium of a cabaret stage gradually and ominously assumes the outline of concentration camp gates. The Emperor of Atlantis – review 2012-10-09T16:49:30Z Gutting the auditorium, they devised a shoe box layout with a proscenium arch, à la Boston’s Symphony Hall. A Notoriously Jinxed Concert Hall Is Reborn, Again 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z His motto, “Through art, for Humanity,” still adorns the proscenium arch. This Theater Brings Nature Right Into the Drama 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Often I will walk past another piece of local infrastructure, the pedestrian bridge at 103rd Street, the Wards Island Bridge, which creates a sort of proscenium opening to the Harlem River. The East River Waterfront Dazzles. Take a Virtual Tour. 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Swirling hand-held cameras suggest the intimate chaos of lived experience in a way no choreography framed for a proscenium could. Bumps on the Road From Broadway to Hollywood 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z I liked the idea of a proscenium stage. Linda Ronstadt Has Found Another Voice 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z With actors deployed as inadvertent obstacles downstage, Godwin’s blocking isn’t uniformly well adapted for the Klein’s proscenium. Review | ‘Timon of Athens’ is tricky Shakespeare. A fearless director gets it right. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z "When you look at it longways, it's like mini proscenium arches," Ms. Spencer said. The Carpetbagger: Below the Line: The Design of 'Anna Karenina' 2013-01-30T17:39:24Z Chariots, sphinxes and cherubs perch on the prosceniums. Antiques: ?Home Theaters? for the Victorian Age 2010-12-16T22:35:56Z At his Greenwich Village duplex last month, he noted how the arched entrance to his blindingly white boudoir resembles a proscenium. Confessions of a Drag Legend: Charles Busch’s Memoir Is Here, Darling 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z But dreaming up enough variety for the relatively small space of a proscenium stage? Streb ‘action heroes’ provide an exhilarating show 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Like many of the theaters where the tour is stopping, the Pantages isn’t a nightclub setting but a large, traditional proscenium house. 50 years of 'Cabaret': How the 1966 musical keeps sharpening its edges for modern times 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z These images seem to draw their spectators into the picture plane by an almost gravitational force, pulling them across the proscenium threshold. How a Family Transformed the Look of European Theater 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z The action was framed in a large circle within the proscenium that began and ended each act veiled by a metal mesh, like a harem screen. Review | With spectacular squib of ‘Samson,’ Met Opera grasps at new start 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z My heart sank a little further when I entered the theater to see a gleaming gold proscenium looming above the stage — to knowing eyes, the signature scenic device of the City Center Encores! series. Review: In Takarazuka’s ‘Chicago,’ the Midwest Looks a Lot Like Japan 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z His “Lohengrin” is tame by comparison; after all, it was made for a traditional proscenium space designed by Wagner. Bayreuth’s First American Director Made Wagner a Feminist. What Now? 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z The tales are separated by a present-day framing device in which an actor, actress and director sit before a theater proscenium, casting themselves in the classically styled tales they've imagined. 'Tales of the Night': Striking visuals brighten animated vignettes 2012-11-15T21:32:05Z Director and designer Yannis Kokkos treats it as Greek tragedy, and his creation of a frame within the proscenium gives every big moment and strategic action its optimum dramatic context. Tristan und Isolde – review 2012-05-22T11:57:52Z Albery and set designer Michael Levine stage this scene as a theatrical entertainment put on for Tannhaeuser's amusement, and they frame it with a smaller version of the Royal Opera House proscenium. Wagner's 'Tannhaeuser' in time of war 2010-12-13T15:00:00Z One wonders just how good he would look in a real ballet – Swan Lake on a proscenium arch stage, for instance. Swan Lake 2010-06-13T21:00:00Z Dance is no longer being shown live on proscenium stages, but its materiality haunts New York City. How We Use Our Bodies to Navigate a Pandemic 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z With no scenery to speak of except for one feeble little table, it looms as a black chasm that stretches far beyond the traditional barriers of walls and proscenium arches. Ivo van Hove Brings ‘Angels in America’ to BAM 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z A curtain draws back on a wall made of large bricks, filling the entire proscenium. Tanztheater Wuppertal Stages ‘Palermo’; Ratmansky Returns to Paris Opera 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z The Met’s squarer proscenium is much taller but also much narrower — only 54 feet wide. On the Way to the Met, a ‘Meistersinger’ Is Stranded in Europe 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z It is also one of a subset of festival shows that ask audiences to do more than merely sit in a dark proscenium space and observe from afar. Keeping You Entertained (and on Your Toes) 2010-08-27T22:59:00Z The set completes the Met’s iconic golden proscenium with a matching lower lip, giving the staging the impression of taking place within Senta’s painting, or perhaps even within her mind. The Met Opera’s ‘Dutchman’ Sails Into Port With a New Star 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z "If we put Kong in that very contained environment of a proscenium, we've got to make sure that in swiping his arms he doesn't inadvertently knock over a cast member in the process," Pavlovic said. `King Kong' musical may make Broadway fans bananas 2010-09-16T17:46:00Z Wisely, he embraced it as the frothy entertainment it is, setting its antics and merry dances behind army-drum footlights against a handsome false proscenium. Critic?s Notebook: An Orphan, a Libertine and the Walking Dead 2011-06-19T22:11:24Z Corrugated metal painted neon colors, strings of lights and African-style artworks plaster the walls of the theater and the sides of the proscenium. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: The Exploding Art of Set Design 2010-12-09T18:21:00Z By the time they were working in the theater, underneath a proscenium featuring the show’s red-eyed dragon, the cast was polishing details. ‘Wicked’ Hits the Road, Carrying the Hopes of Broadway Tours 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z Dance shows on cruise ships typically take place on proscenium stages, for seated, stationary audiences. A Dance Show on a Cruise Ship? It’s Not What You Think. 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Immediately after the jubilant ending of “Iolanta,” the sprightly opening bars of “The Nutcracker” play as that proscenium expands, revealing it to be part of a mansion. Review: ‘Iolanta’ and ‘The Nutcracker,’ Reunited Naturalistically at the Paris Opera 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z Hopper himself encouraged us to see the windows in these late paintings as a proscenium, as the Whitney emphasizes in a gallery dedicated to his interest in the theater. Edward Hopper’s Fantasy Island 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z Just as it’s too hokey for transcendence, it’s too much of a music video to make the leap to the proscenium stage. Review: Perfume Genius and Kate Wallich in a World of Angst 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z She enjoys choreographing in and out of the wings, giving a sense that the proscenium is simply a viewfinder onto a larger world. Step-by-step guide to dance: Trisha Brown 2010-10-13T13:07:00Z Davies finds it "incredibly rich being able to rethink movement away from the mediating effects of the proscenium stage". Shake the room: how architecture is inspiring dance 2012-06-24T17:00:01Z The armory’s strategy also departs from that of traditional theaters, which have subscriptions, marketing strategies, rows of fixed seats and prosceniums. The Park Avenue Armory, Indisputably Big 2011-12-21T21:04:21Z “Glacial Decoy” was Ms. Brown’s first piece for the proscenium, and it was wittily designed so that its dancers feed in from the wings to blur the stage’s borders. Review: Stephen Petronio Company Revives ‘Glacial Decoy,’ With Its Supple Sylphs 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Taylor viewed the stage like a painter, using the proscenium as a frame, and Novak thinks the same is true of Lovette. A Ballerina Finds Her Modern Dance Home: It ‘Feels Limitless’ 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Fancy riders mounted on horseback pose within a theatrical proscenium, where human and animal both seem to grin. The mystery of an artist only deepens: The remarkable drawings of Martín Ramírez at DTLA's new museum 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Kim is rewriting it for a more traditional proscenium stage and songwriter Helen Park is adding new songs. Despite coronavirus, 1 musical is holding auditions, online 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z The result aims to expand our notion of dance’s proscenium stage using the iPad. ‘Fifth Wall,’ With Jonah Bokaer, as iPad App 2012-06-22T15:23:11Z Lucy Guerin “Untrained” Nov. 27 through Dec 1 Spatial arrangement: proscenium. Choreographers Explore New Brooklyn Academy of Music Stage 2012-08-30T22:17:31Z The stage of Salzburg’s Grosses Festspielhaus, or Large Festival Hall, where the “Meistersinger” had its premiere, is short and wide, with a rectangular proscenium more than 90 feet wide. On the Way to the Met, a ‘Meistersinger’ Is Stranded in Europe 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z Look up there at the top of the proscenium arch’s gilded frame! Review: In ‘Sisters’ Follies,’ Basil Twist Conjures Two Avant-Garde 1915 Benefactors 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z The strategy was classic: Find a theater outside New York with a solid subscriber base and a big proscenium stage to test ideas in front of an open-minded audience. An Unexpected New Stop on the Road to Broadway: Edmonton 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z Like Miller's set, which reveals the bare canvas frames behind the gold-fronted proscenium arch, they convey a sense that the whole narcissistic charade might collapse at any moment. Valhalla! 2010-07-12T20:31:00Z “She understands how to do dance for camera, because it’s actually a different animal — it’s not a proscenium, it’s 3-D. It’s everything the world envelops.” Putting ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ in Motion 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z We will see how it looks on tour, reconfigured for big proscenium stages like the Paramount’s. At the Paramount, enter ‘War Horse’: a boy, a horse, a hit play 2013-02-07T22:14:09Z He just sauntered up to the edge of the proscenium, and broke its convention. Losing Max Ritvo 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z The dignified profiles of Dante and Michelangelo adorn the proscenium arch of the neo-Renaissance theater inside Columbia University’s Italian Academy. Review: Ensemble Origo, Doing the Lowbrow With Dignity 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z So we have an upstage proscenium arch with a plush velvet curtain that parts to allow star entrances. Pygmalion 2010-07-20T21:45:00Z Linda Shelton, the Joyce’s executive director, said she wants to see how the new stage works before offering it to other companies that want an alternative to the proscenium. The Joyce Theater Confronts Its Own Staleness 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z “And so I began right then to move outside of the proscenium and to surprise those little devils, to throw things at them, to challenge them, to intimidate them.” Adrian Hall, Who Invigorated Regional Theater, Dies at 95 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Of course the proscenium is just a frame, but everyone gets the idea of pretend by now, don't they? The arch and its nemesis 2010-07-29T14:29:00Z Its sensuous currents need more time to accrue; its games with space require the framing of a proscenium stage. Review: ‘Trisha Brown: In Plain Site’ Sends Dancers Gamboling in the Grass 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z When the orchestra plays on a stage that now extends past the proscenium and into the auditorium, the hall holds just 2,282. As Geffen Hall’s Renovation Stumbles, Cincinnati Shows the Way 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z As I've written elsewhere, audience behaviour, even in proscenium arch theatre, is extraordinarily variable throughout modern history. What's so wrong with proscenium arch theatre? 2010-07-19T11:36:00Z In fact, Fo makes explicit reference to the theater throughout, and uses borrowed techniques — including a visual “proscenium,” prolepsis, asides, interludes, shifting scenes and the dismantling of the fourth wall. ‘The Pope’s Daughter’ review: Dario Fo’s novel defends the Borgia clan 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Friends reported that they found the sight of 20 suited bankers lining up beneath the proscenium arch curiously moving. Mere fact, mere fiction 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z By the time I was 11, I had converted our basement into a proscenium theater with seating for 75, curtains, lights and scenery. Your First Theater Crush 2013-08-21T16:24:20Z That means no curtained proscenium stage, or performers sticking to single roles. Review: Reliving Those Arabian Nights in ‘Pay No Attention to the Girl’ 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z The vast, antique interior has a giant stage beneath an elaborate proscenium arch. In California, Finding ‘Fat City’ With the Man Who Wrote It 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z William Forsythe would like the world to understand a thing or two about choreography — not from the distance of a proscenium stage, but from the inside out. Our Critics Pick the Dance Moves (and Objects) to See This Fall 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z And in one poignant moment, Grandma waved goodbye and walked away into the yellow mist beyond the proscenium. Barry Lubin, Grandma the Clown, in Final Big Apple Tour 2011-09-20T22:02:29Z For me the magic also tends to die in immersive performances when I step through the proscenium into the world of the play. The arch and its nemesis 2010-07-29T14:29:00Z Hildegard Bechtler’s set is dominated by a huge wooden door frame, evoking both a proscenium and the threshold the guests are unable to cross. Your Guide to the Met Opera’s ‘Exterminating Angel’ 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Their act cries out for a traditional stage, and Druid’s theater in Galway lacks a proscenium arch. A rock. A road. A tree. How set designers for 20th century’s most famous play change it up. 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z The production was highly self-referential: much of the set consisted of images from La Scala, including the curtain, proscenium and boxes, reproduced on flats or constructions and in reflections on a mirrorlike backdrop. ArtsBeat Blog: Watching a La Scala Opening on the Big Screen 2011-12-07T23:05:49Z The pavilion includes a 370-seat proscenium theater and a 200-seat black box theater, as well as two sizable rehearsal rooms that are frequently in use by Boston theater troupes as well as Huntington artists. ArtsBeat: Boston's Huntington Theater Receives $10 Million Gift 2011-04-28T17:38:26Z A transfer to Broadway would be trickier, since the show’s 360-degree staging would not fit with the traditional proscenium layout of most Broadway theaters. ArtsBeat: ‘Here Lies Love’ Adds Another Month to Public Theater Run 2013-04-26T14:16:16Z Some shots are framed almost as if inside a proscenium, and the screenplay consists mostly of monologues and duologues. | 'Autumn Sonata': A Fraught Mother-Daughter Drama 2011-04-28T22:18:19Z “He built a proscenium theater around the piece.” | It’s Marina Abramovic’s World, Willem Dafoe’s Just Living In It 2013-12-16T23:32:55Z A steampunk circus reoriented for the proscenium stage, the latest show from this American company performs traditional circus acts with a few more gears and wheels. 15 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Even the proscenium arch has Western African carvings in it. ‘I Want to Live in That Room’: Designers on Their Broadway Sets 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z But at a certain point the proscenium trappings fell away, as those strangled tidal waves of feeling found their way through. Dance Review: Sisters Standing Up to the Man 2011-04-29T21:21:24Z There is nothing resembling a proscenium stage in its sparkling white vicinity. Museum Shows Leap Beyond The Frame 2010-12-26T02:23:54Z It can take roughly 10 seconds for some backdrops to fall the full 45 feet of the Met proscenium. Metropolitan Opera Embarks on $60 Million Renovation 2012-12-05T23:10:28Z But the play was built for a proscenium stage, not three-quarter seating and McCallum and his designers sometimes struggle to make the action visible to all, particularly in the final act. Review: In ‘Mr. Burns,’ Apocalypse Now, With ‘The Simpsons’ and Songs 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z It’s to be hoped that other companies will take up these proscenium arch works in the future. From Movement in Ancient Art to Radical Choreographers 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z RICHMOND, Va. — On Saturday, under a candy-colored proscenium arch, Louis C.K. told a story about the day he learned “all the bad words.” Louis C.K. Doubles Down on the Value of Saying the Wrong Thing 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z STG also installed a bar and theatrical lighting, refurbished and expanded the restrooms and uncovered a good amount of detail around the proscenium stage. Neptune Theatre grand opening starts Sept. 25 2011-09-05T22:38:12Z After seating, the event begins with a bright red spotlight trained from the proscenium onto the lone viewer. LACMA's exhibition 'Sculpt': Incoherent pretension for an audience of one 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Theater critic Nelson Pressley provides a history lesson in rowdy behavior, and insight into what it’s like on the other side of the proscenium, where actors have their own passionate feelings about audience misbehavior. How to act in public spaces in a digital age 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z It frees them from acres of proscenium arch and orchestra pit. Silent Opera do away with the orchestra 2011-02-24T22:45:00Z Five hundred seats have been eliminated, along with the proscenium. After Decades, the Philharmonic’s Hall Sounds and Feels More Intimate 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z It all has the feel of a toy theatre but with magical departures, such as a proscenium created by a leafy canopy of trees. The Rake's Progress; BBC Prom 35; Three Choirs festival 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z Piled around the outer proscenium are crates, boxes and odd bits of statuary, vaguely suggesting that we are in a disused theater of some advanced age, filled with odd props. Review: ‘Cymbeline’ Unspools Its Many Plot Twists at the Delacorte Theater 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z They will need to sell 52,000 seats over the run and perform without the proscenium arch. The Royal Opera House: Welcome to the new people's palace 2011-03-06T00:16:48Z For this balmy festival, he adapts the dance from its gallery setting to a proscenium stage, pairing it with his gorgeously sweeping “Map.” 50 Essential Summer Festivals 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Put “Dante” in the pantheon of great ballet scores that stand alone — thrive, even — outside the pit and the proscenium. Review: Thomas Adès Charts a Journey Through Hell and Heaven 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z Rather than seeing the proscenium from the audience, viewers are mostly stage with the actors, looking out, as Lubezki's camera swings around the theater a full 360 degrees. Human foibles give 'Birdman' its superhuman wings 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z While The Regent does not have all the ornate detail of its brethren on Broadway, its proscenium arch and wall moldings acts as reminders of more than a century of changing trends in live entertainment. In Downtown Los Angeles, the Return of the Movie Palace 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z There’s no proscenium, no stage, no wings, no audience. ‘Asteroid City’ Review: Our Town and Country 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z The amplification of the offstage priests in the Judgment Scene was distorted, resulting in weird sibilants blaring from above the proscenium. Review: ‘Aida’ Gives a Taste of the Met Opera’s Bad Old Days 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z They hold long strands of barbed wire that stretch, weblike, across the proscenium. ‘Access as an Ethic’: Giving Dance Myriad Points of Entry 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z Even the famous red velvet stage curtains were replaced by pink ones monogrammed with Smith's initials, and above the proscenium her portrait was hanging in front of that of the Queen. Anna Nicole - review 2011-02-18T01:07:14Z Yet the most obvious transformation is visual: “Hadestown” is now performed on a proscenium stage instead of in a miniature Greek amphitheater. Review: The Metamorphosis of ‘Hadestown,’ From Cool to Gorgeous 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z Even at the Miller, a traditional proscenium theater, the opera insinuates itself under the skin. Review: An Opera Reaches the American Dream’s Brooding Heart 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Flossie joins the Women’s Land Army, remaining at Chilcombe, where the finances have become predictably shaky, skinny-dipping with a German prisoner of war as vegetables fill their onetime proscenium. Bright Young Things, Revisited: War Clouds a Childhood Idyll 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z He has gratifyingly rethought the beloved top-of-second-act song, “Seasons of Love,” usually staged with the cast in a single line across a proscenium stage. Review | A galvanizing ‘Rent’ raises pulses as it welcomes audiences back to Signature Theatre 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z The idea that his films are shows and that the frame is a kind of cinematic proscenium, and he wants performance — I really dig that. In the Company of Wes Anderson 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z He wanted to examine them, really look, and he does, making their trunks fleshlike and sinewy, turning their branches into proscenium curtains of black crepe. Art Review: ?Claude Monet: Late Work? at Gagosian Gallery 2010-05-06T22:49:00Z The proscenium effect fades away, and the films seem less like fly-in-amber records of stage presentations than little movies in their own right. Video: All Talking, All Singing, All but Forgotten 2011-05-06T21:13:01Z What becomes more apparent here than ever before is the toughness of mind underlying these proscenium works, and it enriches the choreography with qualities of suspense and tension. Review: From Trisha Brown, Three Last Dances (Maybe) in Brooklyn 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z It adds a proscenium quality to the scenes, which I really like. Greta Gerwig on Frances Ha: “I Feel Like an Adult” 2013-05-02T21:23:51Z Blum was commissioned to paint grand murals along the proscenium of Mendelssohn Hall in New York City. Motor City exhibition ‘Dance’ shows how motion has long inspired American art 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z You are out among the audience, not tucked safely back behind the proscenium arch. The Royal Shakespeare Company: an exciting new chapter 2010-11-24T16:44:00Z The whole thing is built, as Lloyd Webber is fond of saying, “like a cast iron boat” — a rock radio play, or a stage show for the proscenium of the imagination. Why ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ the Album Has Always Rocked 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Whereas some of the Washington Ballet’s earlier Marquee TV videos used more involved film language, this work is made for a proscenium. Washington Ballet concludes its virtual season with a breath of fresh air, captured on film 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Further scarves appear and weave up between the oscillating figures, turning the proscenium into a giant loom. Spider-Man the Musical: The webbed crusader comes out fighting 2011-01-26T17:31:15Z Wilson imagined it for a conventional proscenium stage. August presence: Joe Turner's Come and Gone and back again 2010-06-15T09:32:00Z And in March, the Stephen Petronio Company will present “Glacial Decoy,” Ms. Brown’s first work for the proscenium stage, at the Joyce Theater. Sending the Trisha Brown Legacy Back Into the World 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z I’ll cop to some trepidation about its arrival in a traditional proscenium theater. Review: ‘Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812,’ on the Heels of ‘Hamilton’ 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Christopher Oram’s evocative design suggests a blurring of reality by positioning a once-grand proscenium arch within the Rice’s family home, and Neil Austin’s lighting casts a shimmer that can turn ominous at will. Review: ‘The Entertainer,’ ‘Unfaithful’ and ‘They Drink It in the Congo’ 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z The proscenium works are challenging; “L’Amour,” in particular, features robust partnering. The Persistence of Vision (Trisha Brown’s, That Is) 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z In January 2016, the Brooklyn Academy of Music gave a season to the company’s final presentation of her “proscenium” theater pieces. Trisha Brown, Choreographer and Pillar of American Postmodern Dance, Dies at 80 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z The script is conversant in the online language of whatever we’ve chosen to call the generation succeeding the millennials, and it recognizes Instagram as their combination podium, proscenium and proving ground. Double screening: how Hollywood embraced Instagram 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Two of the four shows I saw over the weekend were proscenium productions with orchestras in the pit: opera as you imagine it. A Hotbed of Operatic Innovation Wins With Tradition 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z “Acting is never boring,” Plummer observes, casting his glance over to the theater’s proscenium. Christopher Plummer: 'Why not bring me in to play Roseanne for the next season?' 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z It was a time when art was moving off the plinth, and dance was stepping away from the proscenium stage: the two joined forces and invaded the galleries, museums and lofts of New York. Pioneers of the Downtown Scene: a walk on the wall side 2011-03-02T21:30:01Z Electronic auras seem to swirl around the audience, aided by the two antiphonal groups in the balcony boxes on either side of the proscenium — each with a percussionist, clarinetist and trumpeter. Review: ‘Hamlet’ Boldly Engulfs the Metropolitan Opera 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z You tend to draw people into the show, break down the fourth wall, even though you are using a traditional proscenium arch form. Edinburgh: the inexorable rise of variety and cabaret 2010-08-07T10:46:00Z The first figure we see in “Suicide Forest,” moving slowly around the edge of the proscenium, is a god in scarlet silk. Review: A Family Divide Haunts Heart-Rending ‘Suicide Forest’ 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z For the “Rake,” the company moved into a regular proscenium theater, if small and without a pit. For opera lovers, at last a 'Rake' for L.A., bearded lady and all 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z With its fixed proscenium stage and outdated décor, the Joyce Theater is finally facing a demon head-on: its own staleness. The Joyce Theater Confronts Its Own Staleness 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Was there something on your side of the proscenium that you could have gotten from the play without that device? ‘Fairview’: Watching a Play in Black and White 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z The Titanic was in that sense a stage prop moving across what was by all accounts a flat and unthreatening ocean and also across the proscenium of a new century. On the Titanic, Defined by What They Wore 2012-04-11T20:37:03Z Guston’s long-suffering wife, the poet Musa McKim Guston, appears in “Tears” as two enormous eyes on a proscenium stage, each orb forming a round little seascape and producing one teardrop. After the Storm, Philip Guston for Real 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Without a proscenium, without an orchestra, without Cocteau's elegantly horrific French text, Poulenc's music can be in real danger of sinking into sensationalism. Suzan Hanson brings immediacy, authenticity to Long Beach Opera's 'La Voix Humaine' 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z “Proving Up” comes to the Miller Theater in New York in September; it will be interesting to see how it reads in a traditional proscenium house. An Opera Festival’s Local Focus 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Then the play proper starts, in thick darkness, with the repeated crash of guitar chords and a blitz of bright lights that define the proscenium frame, an effect repeated between the succeeding scenes. Review: Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano Go Mano a Mano in the Riveting ‘True West’ 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z The show’s director, Lee Sunday Evans, envisioned the production as if set in a Quaker meeting house “where there’s no pulpit or proscenium and so the music wants to be amongst us.” Heather Christian’s Choral Work Is a Study of Time. Patience, Too. 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z The resulting configuration, echoing a proscenium arch, frames a cluster of sinuous volumes that contain administrative offices, classrooms, and other facilities. Morphosis Architects Crafts A Striking New College Campus in Los Angeles 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z With the sky as a proscenium arch, it’s a stage that inspires us to ponder our own insignificance in the grand scheme of things, at least compared to the larger-than-life stories we tell ourselves. Making Waves: 10 Memorable Beach Scenes 2013-08-05T09:45:21Z So great was the distance between the proscenium stage and the back row that even the stormiest Lear was all but inaudible to those seats. Royal Shakespeare Theatre: All's well ? 2010-11-23T18:43:00Z The set, designed by Matt Saunders, rises to less than half the height of the proscenium, so it weighs heavily on the characters and conveys a vivid sense of the work’s stifling atmosphere. The Operas ‘Facing Goya’ and ‘Katya Kabanova,’ at Spoleto 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z The static images recall the views from live theater, where the eyes of the audience are limited by the proscenium and the angle of a particular seat to the stage. ‘Four Quartets’ Review: Virtuosi in Verse 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Instead, he arranged them like an audience in a proscenium theater, in what he called “the colonial relationship.” Faustin Linyekula: Remember His Name (and Country and Past) 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z The sets, by Robert Brill, are framed in a rectangular proscenium with curved corners that expressly seems to suggest a giant iPad looming over the audience. Critic’s Notebook: Make-Believe at Geffen Playhouse and La Jolla Playhouse 2012-12-19T23:07:37Z Those unhappy folks speaking English under an ornate proscenium are not really Russian aristocrats, after all. Suspending Disbelief in a Savage ‘Endgame’ 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Then the show begins, and behind the radiated arches of the Hall's proscenium we see the two interior arches that Cirque's Stéphane Roy has designed to frame this episodic fairy tale. Cirque du Soleil's Zarkana: The Summer's Great Stage Show 2011-07-03T05:50:00Z It has a proscenium, an orchestra pit, a wing space, fly space and a dedicated shop in the back, which makes it a prized unicorn among Off Off Broadway theaters. At 100, the Abrons Arts Center Revels in the Risky 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z “They unashamedly provided a proscenium for our dreams.” Movie Theaters Documented on Cinema Treasures Site 2011-08-27T03:43:02Z From the concert hall’s proscenium stage, 20 attendants looked on. Another Royal Wedding. This One Newark Style. 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Before Taylor began to pursue dance, he studied painting, and he later wrote that he thought of the proscenium of a stage like a frame. ‘Oh, I’ll Show You’: Paul Taylor and Alex Katz’s Long Collaboration 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Up to that point, the set design by Lez Brotherston emphasizes a wondrous fluidity but also spatial constriction — the world of the stage, dominated by central proscenium arches. Demons, on the feet and in the soul, in Matthew Bourne's 'The Red Shoes' 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Its use of space — dancers appearing for just a moment on the edge of the dancing area — marks the 2014 work as clearly one conceived for the proscenium stage. Mark Morris Dance Group Debuts ‘Water’ in Its Element 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z One odd note was struck inadvertently right at the beginning: The proscenium was decorated like a Mormon temple - the legacy of the show that usually plays in the space, "The Book of Mormon." Play about Prop 8 makes its Broadway debut 2011-09-20T03:25:09Z Reassuring us, as ever, is the proscenium arch, the sign that says “Scene 4.” “Life Story,” Virginia Lee Burton’s Picture Book for the Ages 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Quality is not about a proscenium arch, clear acoustics or high technology — although those of course are welcome. What Do You Want From Your Local Theater? Readers Respond 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z A live-action sitcom is just like a play in a proscenium, he told her. In ‘With Love,’ Gloria Calderón Kellett Comes Home for the Holidays 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Its track record in proscenium theaters remains mixed. Cirque bugs out extravagantly with 'Ovo' 2011-07-01T07:00:00Z “There’s a problem partly inherent in the way the piece is written and exacerbated by this structure,” he told the group, indicating with a glance the theater’s gaping orchestra pit and high proscenium. Season Rescued, the Met Tackles an Oddly Resonant ‘Figaro’ 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z “My assignment with these big numbers is to choreograph to the proscenium,” he said. Arts & Leisure: Joshua Bergasse, Choreographer for NBC?s ?Smash? 2012-02-11T06:07:04Z “I see the audience as my final collaborator and sometimes the conversation spills beyond the proscenium,” she said. The theater talkback: Why they're popular, and why playwrights aren't always pleased 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Buttenwieser Hall, which Mr. Pinsky said currently has the “aesthetics of a high-school gym,” will soon say goodbye to its proscenium stage in favor of a retractable stage, movable wings and retractable seating. A Rebranded ‘92NY’ Is Getting a Long-Awaited Renovation 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z In the theatre, a protean room adaptable from arena to proscenium use at roughly 10 minutes' notice, I saw four different shows in four hours. Observer archive, 1968: the Arts Lab, a ramshackle prototype for the ICA 2013-04-27T23:04:10Z Double doors lead down to a rectangular room with loft-style windows and an arched proscenium with a velvety red curtain. Yes, There’s a New Gay Bar in Greenwich Village 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z But for me, the earth is literally my stage as I see the open field of my panorama inside the theater walls, a proscenium bounded by wooded copses stage right and left. Twyla Tharp on the Road: Homecoming, a Photo Essay 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z The dedicated dancers look at their best here, and happiest, and the spatial organization of the stage toys with, and subverts, proscenium expectations in intriguing ways. Dance Review: Philadanco at the Joyce Theater 2012-10-05T23:25:20Z “It’s going to be huge, because it’s going to fill the proscenium of the Harvey,” Karen Brooks Hopkins, the president of BAM, said. ArtsBeat: Grab Some Popcorn: Big Screen With Big Sound Coming to BAM 2013-05-29T17:38:51Z On a proscenium stage, with the audience fixed in its seats at a distance, “Habit” probably wouldn’t be very compelling. Theater Review: ‘Habit’ at the Essex Street Market, Building B 2012-09-23T21:21:05Z This performance, however, proved, as always, how superlatively Cunningham’s dances project from behind a proscenium arch. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Dance Company in ?Roaratorio? - Review 2011-12-08T23:13:25Z Both were proscenium theatres, and Nelson was experimenting with what happens when an actor turns his back on the audience. Maryann Plunkett Is a Radiant Everywoman 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z It’s not a proscenium setup, but the audience will be on multiple sides. Choreographers Explore New Brooklyn Academy of Music Stage 2012-08-30T22:17:31Z The theatrical science that allows energy to flow freely between proscenium stage and auditorium is expertly put to use in “Fat Ham,” James Ijames’ Pulitzer Prize-winning riff on “Hamlet” at the American Airlines Theatre. Commentary: Why the Tony Awards should give one to the audience this year 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z Behind the grand proscenium of Hill’s “Brava!” is another such refuge: a gallery filled with images of painted pink roses, some outlined with green neon light. The Black Artists Claiming More Space Than Ever Before 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z It was a novel experience to see the orchestra on the stage, located back far enough from the proscenium opening to leave room for the principal singers across the stage front. Not seen at Seattle Opera for nearly 60 years, ‘Samson and Delilah’ excites 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z According to a press release, he and choreographer Annie-B Parson “will transform the venue’s traditional proscenium floor space into a dance club environment, where audiences will stand and move with the actors.” David Byrne’s next Broadway show will be ‘Here Lies Love’ 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z The intimacy is such that even with a proscenium stage, this is the epitome of immersive opera. Review: In a funky Baroque opera house, Pacific Opera Project puts an immersive spin on Vivaldi 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z The proscenium has been removed entirely and the stage brought forward 25 feet, fitted with flexible risers and parterre seating. With new David Geffen Hall, the NYPhil returns on an optimistic note 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Original cove lighting have been replaced with long life lamps and the original Tiffany glass illuminated proscenium has been restored. Broadway theater to be renamed in honor of James Earl Jones 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z Would the Alexandra’s ornate proscenium and vintage flourishes fit a rowdy audience ready to clap along to the festival ads that screen before the feature? Inside the 'Weird' (Al Yankovic) world premiere: Daniel Radcliffe, Evan Rachel Wood and Hawaiian shirts 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z A yarn about a scholar and a djinn serves as a proscenium for tales from many sources, from Scheherazade to the TV news. Page-to-Screen: 'Three Thousand Years of Longing' Byatt minus the feminism (and genie sex) 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Freedom feels ever more tangible when there are no walls around you, the artists have escaped the proscenium frame, and set design is left up to the sun, sky and birds. Summer dance means fresh air and fresh ideas in motion 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z The mirror reflections transform each white, Minimalist proscenium stage into the illusion of a full floor inside a building, each stacked one atop another into infinity. Review: L.A. gallery-going during Omicron isn't optimal but offers excellent art along the way 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z The plaster and bronze details around the proscenium, which bear a delicate floral motif, have been scrubbed of accumulated layers of nicotine and grime and now sport fresh coats of paint. Way better than a parking lot: Smart reuse revives Julia Morgan's Herald Examiner building 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z “It’s a large Broadway show written specifically for a proscenium stage,” he said of the production, which chronicles the rise and fall of one of America’s most powerful financial institutions. Mark Taper Forum will reopen in 2022 with 'Slave Play' and the LeBron-centered 'King James' 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Plus, the performers won’t be limited to a traditional proscenium stage. Pasadena Playhouse to reopen with reimagined Go-Go's musical 'Head Over Heels' 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z It isn’t theater the way that we knew it before March; there’s no audience, no proscenium, no actors onstage. Why Wayne Brady is taking TikTok’s ‘Ratatouille’ musical seriously 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z The design challenge was significant: The Assembly Room alone is 59 feet long with a 25-foot ceiling, a raised proscenium stage at one end and a free-standing mezzanine — hardly built for intimacy and family life. A Cape Town Apartment That Speaks to the Past 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z Possibly my favorite fancy theater memory is “Jerusalem” — I was in proscenium heaven. 25 top theater minds dream the future: What will the post-pandemic stage look like? 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z References to Dryer’s job as a theater designer for the avant-garde company Mabou Mines recur in her art, like ruminations, most evident in gestures to curtains and frame-like proscenium arches. Moira Dryer’s art of expectancy, at the Phillips Collection and Greater Reston Arts Center 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z State Historic Park and be shepherded into a black box theater with a traditional proscenium stage. Yuval Sharon and the Industry take on the myth of America in the opera 'Sweet Land' 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Later, six thick marionette tendrils, some around 80 feet long, hang from the proscenium and hover over shop owner Mushnik before he’s pulled into an upstage darkness. 'Little Shop of Horrors' in Pasadena: Secrets of a radically reconceived Audrey II 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Early in her career, Brown wanted no part of the proscenium stage. Can Modern Dance Be Preserved? 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z It is my hope that when we’re able to gather en masse that we rethink the tyranny of the proscenium stage and our dependency on making theater in traditional and exclusionary spaces. 25 top theater minds dream the future: What will the post-pandemic stage look like? 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z Renderings shared with the trustees’ Master Planning and Facilities committee showed a new black box theatre, a recital hall for the School of Music, a proscenium theater and rehearsal spaces. Ohio State trustees’ panel OKs $147M for new arts district 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z The creative team had to figure out how to go from performing the show in the round off-Broadway to the proscenium stage of Broadway’s Walter Kerr Theatre. The L.A. producer behind the Broadway juggernaut 'Hadestown' 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z It is performed like a play, within the proscenium of your television screen. ‘The Big Bang Theory’ is ending, but we shouldn't let multi-cam sitcoms die. Here's why 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z “I was worried it would get lost with those big Broadway prosceniums,” he remembers. Lucas Hnath Lets Actors Fight It Out Onstage 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z “I don’t want to do a proscenium theatre show, which you can do everywhere in Manhattan. I want to do an immersive, spectacular performance.” Hold on to your hard hats: New York's $475m Shed throws open its doors 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z “Directors are always trying to destroy the proscenium theatre, to expand, come out, extend and come closer to the audience,” says Poots. Alex Poots: the Scottish impresario opening NYC’s largest new art space 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z Before each scene, a lighted border glows around the proscenium arch, like a snazzy picture frame or a hint of Hollywood. The Chaos of American Manhood in “True West” 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z The margins of the stage have been transformed into an old-fashioned proscenium house, with deep red balconies evoking both theaters of a bygone era and, appropriately enough for a musical about a homicidal barber, blood. Review: Sweeney Todd, Sondheim's throat-cutting barber, sets up shop in South Coast Rep's entertaining revival 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Cuarón points at rows of seats and the proscenium in the distance. A grand old theater, a middle class house: How Mexico City's landscape helped Alfonso Cuarón tell the story of 'Roma' 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Branagh’s direction is, as ever, suffused with a caretaker’s determination — in this case, a curious proscenium staging to many scenes, and cloyingly still compositions — rather than a poet’s artfulness. Review: Kenneth Branagh returns to his William Shakespeare obsession with the original drama 'All Is True' 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z New dramas that can fill Broadway’s grand proscenium houses aren’t rolling off the assembly line. Critic's Notebook: Star turns that serve the Broadway play — Elaine May, Daniel Radcliffe and Janet McTeer show how it's done 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z His body serves as both the proscenium and the players. Review: John Fleck's 'Blacktop Highway' gets political in baroque way - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Neon signs serve as titles for each act; at one point, the proscenium arch flashes with light bulbs, like a backstage makeup mirror. Harvey Fierstein and Ngozi Anyanwu’s Dramatic Self-Portraits 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z The Ford Theatres is turning over their proscenium to the topic of skateboarding — as well as real-deal skateboarding. Datebook: Avant-garde graphic design, untold stories of California slavery and poetry in the sky - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z The proscenium of the genre is that RenPy frame that contains each panel of interacting characters, set before a static background. Don’t like visual novels? These games might change your mind 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Next Tuesday, the Ford Theatres will turn over their proscenium to skateboarding. Datebook: Mini object theater set in the Holocaust, art between borders and an improvised performance - LA Times 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z “There was no proscenium. I couldn’t do scene changes. There was no pit, so the band had to be up and visible. There was no point in miking, because the theatre was too small.” Sam Mendes’s Directorial Discoveries 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z “For this 25th anniversary celebration I am directing the creation of animated digital projections for the proscenium of the Hollywood Bowl’s shell inspired by Tim Burton’s visuals,” Kraft wrote in an email. 'Nightmare Before Christmas,' and Danny Elfman return to Hollywood Bowl for 25th anniversary show Shapiro, bless her, has put a frame around the proscenium, with a large plaque at the bottom that says “Straight White Men.” The Soullessness of “Straight White Men” 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z But Rogers is not telling a story; rather he is filling the entire stage with imagery from the floor to the top of the proscenium. Review: Raiford Rogers' latest moving pictures lift off from the dance stage 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z "Because people can now walk around listening to fantastic music on high quality and reliable wifi, you no longer need audiences to sit staring at a proscenium arch for two hours," she says. How Bowie inspired a Fantasia stage show 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z As part of the package, Times classical music critic Mark Swed notes that “Hamilton” wasn’t the first production to bring political topics to the proscenium. Essential Arts: A wild procession, a female 'Tempest' and music's new sounds of protest 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z Describing himself as "a big proscenium arch guy," he said that Broadway theaters are "the most beautiful dramatic houses on the planet." Tony Kushner, thinking citizen: The playwright on 'Angels in America,' 'West Side Story' and surviving Trump 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z The polished wooden frame around the proscenium twists in toward the wall as it approaches the summit. Tony DeLap's hybrids of painting and sculpture are impossible objects 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Designed by Derek McLane — who is returning to the show for the sixth time — the Oscars stage will be surrounded by a proscenium that’s meant to look like the inside of a geode. The Oscars turn 90, and the production team leaves no room for error ... this time 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z Because it’s an immersive production, there is no proscenium dividing actor and spectator, no seats to stay in. The problem with immersive theatre: why actors need extra protection from sexual assault 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z It challenges everyone — cast, crew and audience alike — to give up the safe distance provided by the proscenium. Folger Theatre production bridges the gulfs of Shakespeare’s ‘Antony & Cleopatra’ 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Accordingly, Miss Allen has continued to stay busy on the proscenium, even directing plays herself. Indiana Jones actress Karen Allen discusses new film ‘Year by the Sea’ 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z In 2018, the square proscenium arch over the stage, with its angel sculptures and other decorative moldings, will be rebuilt and refinished. Homestake Opera House makes progress in its renovation 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z Life is not some temporary staging before the big show hereafter—it is our personal proscenium in the drama of the cosmos here and now.” Why the "You" in an Afterlife Wouldn't Really Be You 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z One minute it’s visible through the proscenium arch, the next it’s been lifted back up, out of sight. Perspective | Like sand through an hourglass, National Theatre’s sandbags are slipping away 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z More than $3 million has been invested in the fabled structure since the conflagration that took its roof and charred an ornate interior that featured gold-leaf, plaster corbels and an angel-topped proscenium. Restoration of South Dakota opera house making strides 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z A catwalk along the second floor, inspired by a proscenium but with steel beams and tie rods under a 42-foot-long skylight, “is not just a hallway,” Chesmore says. A three-story Kirkland home blends Northwest warmth and contemporary coolness 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Mike’s favorite building was the 900-seat theater, complete with a full proscenium stage, padded seats, a balcony and gorgeous Beaux-Arts detailing. Perspective | Readers remember the strangeness, beauty and controversy of St. Elizabeths 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Though “Sweat” harks back to the working-class naturalism of Clifford Odets, Nottage is eager to push beyond the proscenium. The First Theatrical Landmark of the Trump Era 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z The staging, which involves changing projections that often spread beyond the grandiose theater’s proscenium space helps keep the show eye-filling. ‘The Nutcracker’ Review: Waltzing in the Windy City 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z It wasn’t the inaugural proscenium – that would be on the Capitol steps. The years of calm are over. In Donald Trump we’ll have a child at the White House | Dave Eggers 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Because her subject was longitudinal change across the span of hours, days, and years, she needed to set her spatial position in order to see time move across the proscenium of her subjective imagination. Emily Dickinson’s Singular Scrap Poetry 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z But Moss believes that audiences develop a stronger sense of community and cameraderie during concerts in the dark, or in other physical formats that depart from the proscenium stage with a curtain. In the key of zzz: the concerts intended to send you to sleep 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z If the arena concert stage is where she’s made her biggest impact, the proscenium stage of the opera house is where she’s been the most adventurous. Es Devlin’s Otherworldly Stage Sets 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Figuring out how to make his brainchild work on Folger’s proscenium stage proved a lot trickier than he’d anticipated, Tucker says. Folger’s ‘Sense and Sensibility': a hit that’s always moving 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z There are four guitarists, five horn players, three percussionists, a bassist, singers, and goodness knows who else, hidden from my view by the edges of the proscenium arch. Cult heroes: Broken Social Scene – bruised, beautiful and chaotically epic 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z The dénouement, involving a mobile proscenium arch, was uncertain in effect. An Explosive Opera of “The Exterminating Angel” 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Today the square proscenium arch over the stage is bare brick, still scorched black by the fire. Lead opera house restoration projects turns focus to theater 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z The broad, shallow auditorium, still smelling faintly of fresh paint, has been neatly designed in a proscenium configuration. Review: Annie Baker’s Drama Is First Show in Mile Square Theater’s Hoboken Home 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Still, he wants to avoid the “shiny-floored stage and proscenium” and other predictable aspects of the format. The New Comedy Economy: Stand-Up Specials Proliferate on Streaming Services 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z To mount a proscenium in the company of Prince, who died Thursday at age 57, was to bask in greatness and to risk humiliation. Prince and the Competition 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Here is how Mr. Davis concluded his valedictory, framed by the little proscenium arch whose future is now uncertain: Harlem Church Where Malcolm X Was Eulogized Faces Its Own Final Days 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z Robbins choreographed the show not only for 1957 tastes, but also for a traditional proscenium stage. ‘West Side’ challenge: Staging a 1957 gang fight to thrill 2015 audiences 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z But when you do the movie you shoot like three pages one day,” Mr. Shannon said of the difference between proscenium and soundstage acting. Michael Shannon discusses ‘99 Homes’ financial crisis, Superman, ‘Freeheld’ 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z Sure, there was a giant proscenium arch branded with the group’s name. AC/DC at Dodger Stadium: 5 thoughts on Monday's show 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z This time he’s going up the side of a proscenium, and while his goal isn’t exactly clear, it’s still engaging. Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle: 9 hours of 'challenging' art on film 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z So was the Bluebird’s elegant proscenium arch, draped in lyrelike ornamental scrolls, painted gold, and framed by balconies faced with golden swags. Harlem Church Where Malcolm X Was Eulogized Faces Its Own Final Days 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z My experience as I move through the world is pictorial; the proscenium, the painted rectangle. David Salle at Dallas Contemporary, Skarstedt 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z When I first saw the musical, at the Public, in 2013, Kuhn’s performance—the nuances of her rage, bewilderment, and loneliness—got lost on the proscenium stage. Outsiders Take Center Stage 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z There’s a proscenium arch back there and a shallow stage maybe six feet deep. Talking pictures at the Avalon Theatre 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Once a thriving hub of the city’s night life, from theaters with gilded prosceniums to French restaurants with private bedrooms, the Tenderloin was until recently the place the tech economy forgot. In San Francisco’s Tenderloin, a Move to Help Artists as Wealth Moves In 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z His designs are familiar to many, from the proscenium stage miniature he created for the Texaco Star Theater to lamps that were sold at Sears. A Late Bloomer Finds an Audience for His Art in the Bronx 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z And the part of the stage in front of the curtain - the proscenium - is shallow to allow for greater sight lines. USI’s Teaching Theatre ‘unlike anything else’ 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z After its dramatic makeover - rebuilt from facade to proscenium arch - the theatre is almost ready. Christchurch: The pop-up city 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z Like going to the movies and having someone step out onto the proscenium in battle dress and start shooting. When did mass shootings become so frighteningly mundane in America? 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Imagine a theater director leading a tiny, white-haired amateur actress onto the proscenium for her first big starring role. Revolving Doors at Hospitals 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z There was a ballet sequence featuring a giant chandelier and proscenium arches representing Russia's most famous ballet theaters, the Bolshoi and the Mariinsky. Closing Time at the Olympics 2014-02-23T19:46:48Z During a production of Richard Strauss’s “Elektra” for the Canadian Opera, he introduced a simultaneous English translation of the libretto on a horizontal video screen above the proscenium. Lotfi Mansouri, Opera Director Who Pioneered Use of Supertitles, Dies at 84 2013-09-01T15:33:04Z “I’m delighted with this whole proscenium of trees,” she said. About New York: With the Street as a Stage, a Fictional Murder Plays Out in Brooklyn 2013-06-21T02:45:03Z From the moment he appeared in the proscenium that is the hatch of the Air Force One, the president appeared to be “on.” Getting to Know You: Bibi and Barack Finally Forge a Friendly Partnership 2013-03-21T00:05:22Z In this tiny theater, where Row A seems inches from the proscenium, audiences can feel that they really are in a wild, green-floored forest with these characters. | New Jersey: A Review of ‘Release Point,’ at the New Jersey Repertory Company 2012-08-26T03:54:26Z Through the recommendations of Holconius, Octavian obtained a seat near the proscenium in a part of the theatre corresponding to our private boxes which front upon the stage. One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules 2012-04-08T02:00:23.693Z Far overhead where the "spot" was shooting forth its brilliant ray of concentrated light a tiny serpentine tongue of flame crept over the inside of the proscenium drape. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z The proscenium, the tier upon tier of balcony and of gallery, the dozens of upholstered boxes, the exquisitely decorated ceiling had not been touched. The Romance of a Great Store 2012-02-20T03:00:21.577Z A well-preserved elderly lady left her seat on one side of the aisles under the proscenium box and came through the door which led from the auditorium to the stage. Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z An inscription found in the theatre showed that this portico, or at least the front portion of it, was called the proscenium or logeum, two terms of which the identity was previously disputed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z The proscenium presents an elevation of thirty-nine feet in the clear, by fifty in width. Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time 2012-02-13T03:00:18.260Z Like a flash it stole across the proscenium and high up into the gridiron above. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z "I don't know whether you call it a proscenium box, but the lady I mean had a sort of crown of flowers on her head—and she was very pretty, too." Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 2011-12-19T03:00:37.437Z Sherrington accompanied Miss Marvin through the door behind the proscenium box into the dark auditorium. Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z I was not long in seeing him in his place in a proscenium box. The Joy of Captain Ribot 2011-12-15T03:00:16.510Z The depth of the stage is sixty feet, and the width of the proscenium thirty-eight. Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time 2012-02-13T03:00:18.260Z The darkness was illumined by a fearful light that burst from the sea of flame pouring out from the proscenium, making Dore's representations of Inferno shrink into the commonplace. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z Hollister had purchased one of the larger proscenium boxes some time ago; he had given a great price for it to an owner who could not resist the princely terms offered. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z One of the gang must have tampered with the switchboard back of the proscenium arch just before the others swooped down on us and carried away the body.” The Gray Phantom 2011-11-04T02:00:21.427Z It was brought out with great splendor of costume, scenery, proscenium, and the other usual accessories of stage effect, and presented one of the most gorgeous spectacles of the season. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z A golden-fringed national drapery falls from the proscenium, displaying an ingeniously contrived allegory in the centre. Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time 2012-02-13T03:00:18.260Z Where there is a fireproof screen to the proscenium opening it must be lowered at least once during every performance, to insure it being in proper working order. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z It was as if some puppet strutting within a proscenium should suddenly bleed. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z One odd note was struck inadvertently right at the beginning: The proscenium was decorated like a Mormon temple — the legacy of the show that usually plays in the space, “The Book of Mormon.” Broadway play about Calif. Prop 8 case makes its debut hours after a judge unseals recordings 2011-09-20T03:26:49Z In the rear of the left hand proscenium box was Mr. Thorpe’s private office. Burning of the Brooklyn Theatre A thrilling personal experience! Brooklyn's horror. Wholesale holocaust at the Brooklyn, New York, Theatre, on the night of December 5th, 1876 2011-09-13T02:00:36.647Z Behind this, the stage grew deeper, and formed a quadrangle called the proscenium. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z It was the second act, the moonlight octette, if I am not mistaken, when I saw on the left hand side behind the proscenium arch a bright light. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z We had a splendid box, first rank, and the second from the proscenium boxes on the left, in which sat the royal family. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z Here a gaudily painted gable thrust itself out of the white sheet; there, through a proscenium of clinging wool, one saw the gray interior of a machine-room. The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z The house was very full, as I say, and many gentlemen were standing in the side aisles over the proscenium boxes. Kitty's Conquest 2011-08-30T02:00:36.270Z The rank of the personages was generally indicated by the particular door at which they entered; that in the centre of the proscenium being reserved for royalty. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z Meanwhile the flames had eaten their way to the front, and with one fell swoop licked up the combustible drop curtain, spread themselves across the proscenium and were working up towards the ceiling. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z The western wall was clear, shining and empty, enclosed by a proscenium of amber flames. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z The boxes and proscenium were all finished in solid polished cherry wood. Colorado?The Bright Romance of American History 2011-08-25T02:00:28.183Z They know that I have always wanted a proscenium, and that there are no prosceniums, now, to be had for love or money. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z Under the proscenium arch of the fireplace the flames supply actors and scenery, and the show goes on indefinitely. The Comforts of Home 2011-08-11T02:00:13.980Z We were seated in the twelfth row," said Mr. Field, "when we saw fire at the top of the proscenium arch. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z The Maker of Sounds enters with his arms full of instruments, crosses the scene and sits with his back against one side of the proscenium, outside the curtain line. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z And after you had passed through that, then you came to something like a proscenium, covered in overhead. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z But even then this proscenium was not permanent and architecturally conventionalized; it was invented afresh for every successive entertainment, and it was adorned with devices peculiar to that particular mask. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z The signal for raising the curtain was given just as they reached a hidden corner in the proscenium, where the chorus entered. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z The smoke and some of the sparks had already made their way into the main part of the house, curling down and around the lower edge of the proscenium arch. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z At I is a second suit of armor, concealed behind the proscenium. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z It belongs to that strange world behind the proscenium, wherein we gaze, and gazing sometimes utter chatter about “strong situations,” “stirring climaxes,” and the like, as people hypnotized. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z He found a peep-hole near the proscenium arch and peered intently through it for a moment or two; then beckoned Joan to take his place. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z His feet could scarcely support him under the burden, panting for breath, he dragged himself to the proscenium. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z It was during the second verse of the 'Pale Moonlight' song that I suddenly saw a red light to my left in the proscenium arch. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z Did the author of a successful play advance to the proscenium and enjoy the tribute of plaudits paid to a successful playwright? Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z The Minion had the proscenium box, so to speak. Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty 2011-05-30T02:00:18.047Z Patti visited the opera that evening, the Mayor of the town conducting her down the passage way to her proscenium box amidst such a storm of applause as is rarely heard in an Opera-house. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 2011-05-26T02:00:18.807Z The orchestra, too, was roofless, as also were the proscenium and the stage, at whose extreme right and left stood the houses of Pilate and Caiaphas, between which stretched the streets of Jerusalem. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z The inner edge was attached to the stage side of the jamb of the proscenium walls with hinges. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z On the right and left-hand sides of the proscenium were two dressing-rooms alike in every respect. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 2011-05-20T02:00:28.363Z And out beneath the proscenium arch of this fantastic gilded dream, an archangel rode and a beloved face looked down upon the girl. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z The opening of the proscenium measured no less than 70 feet, with an elevation of 65 feet at the highest point of the arch, and a projection of 20 feet in front of the curtain. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 2011-05-26T02:00:18.807Z The chorus was stationed on the proscenium and here all the great scenes in which the populace took part were performed. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z When the reflector was not in use it was set back in a niche in the proscenium wall, and the curtain, when lowered, passed over it. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z At my suggestion, too, a few feet were cut from the front of the stage, which improved the proscenium boxes, and gave me two extra rows of stalls or parquet seats, numbering sixty in all. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 2011-05-20T02:00:28.363Z Ours was a proscenium box in the second tier. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z The majority of my stockholders were careful to remain away, thus leaving a very bare appearance in the proscenium boxes. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 2011-05-26T02:00:18.807Z The story is related that on his return he went to see what progress had been made, and found mural painters at work, over the proscenium arch. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z The light was about five feet high and was within a foot and a half or two feet of the edge of the proscenium arch and close to the curtains. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z I likewise removed the twelve proscenium boxes, ten each side of the stage, thereby advancing the drop curtain some 16 feet nearer the public. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 2011-05-20T02:00:28.363Z To make all the legerdemain possible, David M. Barber has transformed the theater’s thrust stage into an elegant gold-arched proscenium, complete with side boxes and a plush, red curtain trimmed with gold tassels. | Connecticut: A Spy Comedy, Complete With an Airplane Chase 2011-04-17T01:10:26Z This the actors ascended to perform their characters; and here all the dramatic representations of the Romans were exhibited611, except the Mimes, which were acted on the lower floor of the proscenium. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The theatre was filled to its utmost capacity when our four San Dieguinos arrived and occupied their proscenium box, which was on the left of the auditorium, very roomy and elegantly furnished. The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z Fireproof paint is compulsory on the woodwork behind the proscenium wall, but in painting scenery combustible paint may be used. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z The proscenium doors that had been used for coming in front of the curtain, were done away with and the present boxes put in their stead, a very sensible and profitable improvement. The Mormons and the Theatre or The History of Theatricals in Utah 2011-03-14T03:01:07.627Z That’s Renaissance Florence on Hartford Stage’s proscenium, and those men in gold and purple robes and smart belted tunics are Michelangelo, Leonardo, Machiavelli and Soderini. | Connecticut: Two Artistic Giants, and the Man Who Manipulated Them 2011-03-12T23:59:22Z Every comedy that was produced represented life as a meagre action of persons and interests on a slight proscenium of streets and bits of green field, behind which lay the real business, transacted in stews. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z There is some mystic influence in the raised platform, the curtain, the proscenium arch that cuts off this performance from the rest of the world and gives it at once the distinction of art. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z A. On the north side of the stage, on the proscenium wall. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z For these were substituted later a set of stone columns resembling those in the proscenium of a theatre. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z A hood-shaped "light shroud" frames the screens like a proscenium arch, emitting a white glow to highlight the facial features of the people sitting before it. I'll Have My Robots Talk to Your Robots 2011-02-17T22:00:00Z This experiment took place within a specially built hoarding, within which there was erected a large model of the Drury Lane stage proscenium. Asbestos Its production and use, with some account of the asbestos mines of Canada 2011-02-01T03:00:13.163Z Mr. Gordon Craig seems to think that Shakespearian representation at the present moment is unsatisfactory, because of our miserable theatres, with their low proscenium and unimaginative scenery, which cannot suggest immensity! Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z In one of the proscenium boxes were seen the Prussian Ambassador and his wife--returned only a day or two from his vacation. The Sign of Flame 2011-01-27T03:00:43.087Z The proscenium was originally about 14 ft. high and 12 ft. broad; so corresponding approximately to the Greek stage as described by Vitruvius. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z From cardboard cut-out animals, to steam ship decks made out of lollipop sticks, the effect is part proscenium arch theatre, part model village. Stacking hands-on preview 2011-01-20T12:10:08Z The flames at once rose, accompanied with volumes of smoke, none of which, however, found their way to the front of the proscenium. Asbestos Its production and use, with some account of the asbestos mines of Canada 2011-02-01T03:00:13.163Z In another of the excerpts given at Earl’s Court, which is entitled the “Enchantment of Titania,” the costumes, business, and action of the proscenium stage are wholly reproduced on the open platform. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z They were intoxicating, these first sips from the cup of fame, and with this intoxicating knowledge, the celebrated poet now looked up to the proscenium box, whose occupants he had long ago recognized. The Sign of Flame 2011-01-27T03:00:43.087Z Just as he gained a large, open, triangular space, built round with the stateliest public erections;—the very proscenium of the town;—he saw Glen and Fred advancing, in the distance, on the other side. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z The director hurries down the centre aisle, the prompter's head appears at the proscenium arch. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z In the far end stood a gilded, silk-draped proscenium, and raised upon it, under a gold-fringed canopy, was a da�s. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z The Dresden gowns would be taken from the wardrobe and carefully compared with the gorgeous dresses worn by the charming ladies of the proscenium box twenty-five years before. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z The partition-wall between two large apartments of the monastery had been cut through, so as to form the stage, the proscenium, and the circle. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z In the theatre, the proscenium arch is there to frame the story and separate it from "real life" outside. Will the PlayStation Move or Xbox Kinect change the future of gaming? 2010-09-22T19:59:00Z I have occupied the right hand proscenium box every Saturday matin�e since the opening. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z A discordant blast of the trumpets whipped the air and a lama wearing a frightful mask with yak-horns upon it and tiger-skins flapping over his yellow robes moved toward the proscenium. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z “We really had to spend a good two years resolving whether or not we could actually put a creature that size into a proscenium theater.” The Beast Eyes Broadway: 'King Kong' to Take New York Again 2010-09-16T13:20:00Z And when a production requires going from a thrust-stage configuration to a proscenium setup, the added front section of seating will be raked, allowing for better visibility. | Connecticut: Hartford Stage?s Theater Starts Its New Look 2010-06-12T03:05:00Z “There’s no depth from the proscenium to the cyclorama,” she said. ?Cats? at the Paramount Center for the Arts 2010-04-03T00:19:00Z As I folded the letter and replaced it in its cover, I recalled that Will had glanced towards the right hand proscenium box several times. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z A detachment of soldiers in lavender-blue uniforms and brazen helmets clattered out of a door in the arena and formed a line in front of the gilded proscenium. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z The model illustrations of the planned Royal Shakespeare replica, with seating on three levels, a proscenium and a traditional Shakespearean thrust stage, look inviting and suitable for the space’s large scale. 2010-02-11T08:22:00Z The Beechwood Theatre within the school has a proscenium opening of twenty-seven feet and a stage depth, back to the plaster horizon, of the same dimensions. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors It was indeed like a scene in a pantomime, and a proscenium was wanted to frame suitably the effect of those fluted pillars that supported the ceiling with their groined arches. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Every note that Puccini writes smells of the paint and canvas behind the proscenium arch. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists The living deity moved slowly over the yellow carpet; mounted the proscenium; sank cross-legged, hands folded, like a Buddha, upon the da�s. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z Would not Edie explode in her anxiety to correct Jenny, devour bull's-eyes and see more of a mysterious figure that kept peering through a little square hole in the corner of the proscenium? Carnival The light was somewhat stronger now and flooding in through the side panel made a kind of proscenium of the landing by the main companionway. Where the Pavement Ends The decorations are costly, and the frescoes and side ornaments of the proscenium exceedingly beautiful. History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time Abruptly Max himself appeared at one side of the proscenium arch. The Destroying Angel Lictors and acolytes descended from the proscenium; the secular lords and cardinals; the Living Buddha and his attendant Grand Lamas.... Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z The framework of the wall was rearranged by the carpenters like the proscenium arch of a stage, and a drop of canvas faced the spectators where the teacher’s desk and platform had been. Frances of the Ranges The Old Ranchman's Treasure The glare of the spotlight shot down upon the238 grouped children from above the proscenium arch. The Corner House Girls in a Play How they rehearsed, how they acted, and what the play brought in From extreme left to extreme right the flattened proscenium in front of us glows with the ghastliness of the Broockon. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" There is a green lattice proscenium, too, surrounding the fountain, illuminated with colored lights and outlined in tiny flames of gas, and grotto-like alcoves circling the garden, each with a table and room for two. The Real Latin Quarter Every available space, except the vast center-court and the proscenium, was crowded with richly dressed onlookers. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z A large table placed below the gallery with a print curtain on either side of the most limited dimensions was at once the scenery and the proscenium. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) Reserve one of the proscenium boxes for us on Monday, Mr. Alva. Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit) A Tragedy in Four Acts But what are those mysterious enclosures with trellis-work before them on either side of the proscenium? The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba As the violinist turned to the conductor he faced slightly to the left and in a direct line with the second proscenium box. The Fifth String They paid obeisance to the supreme pontiff and gathered at one side of the proscenium. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z The play was produced on March 30, 1798, after Dunlap had become manager of the New Park Theatre, within whose proscenium it was given. André You must keep rather more in the proscenium. Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit) A Tragedy in Four Acts His Excellency the Governor, attended by his staff of officers, occupies the big stage box on the left of the proscenium, and there is a goodly sprinkling of Spaniards in every part of the theatre. The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba In a proscenium box, filled with people, was the artillery captain, the father of Robetti, the boy with the crutches who saved the child from the omnibus. Cuore (Heart) An Italian Schoolboy's Journal A great red plush curtain parted in the center and drew in graceful folds to the edges of the proscenium. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 On each side of the proscenium boards was painted a knight in full armour, with powerful calves, weak knees, and an immense spear. Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot He led the way up the wooden steps by the proscenium, pushed aside the gold-and-crimson hangings, and they were in comparative darkness and absolute privacy immediately. The Giant's Robe It forms a theatrical proscenium on a small scale. The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba Then he accompanied him to the proscenium box, where his father, the captain, was seated; and the latter lifted him bodily and set him down inside, amid an indescribable tumult of bravos and hurrahs. Cuore (Heart) An Italian Schoolboy's Journal The fire laws require a fireproof curtain, which is on the outer or audience side of the two or more curtains that hang on the stage side of the proscenium arch. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession But, to console us in our isolation, on either side of the proscenium was painted a couple of Italians in the act of embracing as one only embraces in opera. Appearances Being Notes of Travel The proscenium pushed forward to here, eh, Jimmy? The Bill-Toppers When he came back and saw a plaster bust of Shakespeare over the proscenium arch, he waved his cane pompously and exclaimed: 'Take her down! In Our Town Under Charles's prompting Hyde & Behman bought the inside of that historic structure, proscenium arch, stage, boxes, and all, and transported them to the Thirty-fifth Street barn. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man Proscenium Arch, the Frame of the Stage Pictures Diagram of a Modern Theatre There is never any curtain in front of "the arch" or proscenium. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession Many mothers object to their daughters being seen at the theater in a proscenium box. The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men I had had the platform carried forward to our "Frozen Deep" point, and my table and screen built in with a proscenium and room scenery. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 “I didn’t know I was still such a kid,” he said, flashing a smile, the first spontaneous one he had given her, upon Betty who sat beside him in the proscenium box. The Branding Iron He resumed his former seat and only when the chorus again appeared on the proscenium did he rise, walk over to the orchestra and throw the flowers at Janina's feet. The Comedienne The proscenium arch of the stage makes the frame for the pictures on the stage. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession It is a small Grecian theatre, exactly as he supposes those ancient theatres to have been, with the same proscenium, scenes, decorations, and seats for the audience. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I We have all sorts of clubs, dramatic and otherwise, and rather plume ourselves on having put up our proscenium ourselves, that is with our own hands and hammers and nails. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis The “pulpitum” was properly an elevated place on the proscenium, or space between the scene and the orchestra. The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes Cabinska's nurse, with the two eldest children, was sitting near the proscenium under the ropes of the curtain. The Comedienne "The opening" means to the professional the width across stage at the proscenium arch, and varies according to the size of the auditorium and the line of sight of the auditors. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession In the latter the seats go down to the level of the orchestra, which they do not here, and at Pompeii there is no depth behind the proscenium, whereas here there is very considerable. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I Our heads were high above the opening of the proscenium, which was about the size and shape of the opening of the fireplace in a fairly large room. Diversions in Sicily On the proscenium, as it were, large Chinese letters were painted. A Boy's Voyage Round the World The parterre—its somewhat comfortless seats, rising as on iron stilts, as they recede, row by row, from the proscenium—was packed. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance During the musical intermezzo that followed, the lower proscenium box was vacated and in the first balcony one among a crowd of students rose and made his way up the aisle. Flamsted quarries The stage, it seems, was put too far behind the proscenium, “owing to the headstrong perversity of Dickens, who never forgave the Bath people.” Pickwickian Studies The bust, which is of black terra cotta, and bears traces of Italian workmanship, is believed to have adorned the proscenium of the Duke’s Theatre. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Then the prosceniums of the theaters framed pageants of Oriental sensuousness—scenes of hallucinatory seductiveness and splendor, through which, to a blare of startling music, bounded swarms of half-naked bodies jingling with jewels. Sacrifice The famous National Theatre at Callowhill Street has become a garage; it is queer to see the old proscenium arch and gilded ceiling dustily vaulted over a fleet of motortrucks. Pipefuls He lifted his hat in apology, and recognized one of them as the occupant of the proscenium box, the gentleman who had given the roses to the little singer. Flamsted quarries Indeed, being painted on the proscenium, with their backs to the stage, the effect they produce is one of studied indifference. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 19, 1916 The lower order of the proscenium 10 ft. Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration The proscenium doors in front of the curtain long survived their original use as entrances, but, as a rule, they have now finally disappeared with the front stage. The Facts About Shakespeare This time, too, the gentleman in the proscenium box gave the signal for the applause, but no one appeared to notice it. The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I The childish voice sustained the simple melody perfectly, and it was evident when the little girl began the second verse that she was singing wholly to please herself and some one in a proscenium box. Flamsted quarries The showman roared from the proscenium; he had been all over France, and nowhere, nowhere, "not even on the borders of Germany," had he met with such misconduct. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Total depth of the stage from the railing to the centre of the proscenium 16 ft. Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration The funds were raised, and the place was built, and the Bohemian people inscribed over the proscenium the challenging words: "Narod Sobe"—The people for itself. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 The parquet and balcony were filled with students, and only one proscenium box was still empty. The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I Above the proscenium is an ellipse, exhibiting the Australian coat of arms. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert It was restful to the corpulent Hemerlingue, puffing in his proscenium box on the ground floor, as in a sty of cherry-colored satin. The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) Communication with the front of the house is provided by a door in the proscenium wall opening into the stage door lobby, whence the outside of the building may be reached. Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration In the small and tawdry proscenium, behind a worn picture of the Bay of Naples, were silhouetted the figures of the men’s leader and of several other officials. Clayhanger A murmur ran through the theatre; the door of the proscenium box was opened and three persons entered it. The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I There was a certain quantity of flab in the binomium and the proscenium was wide open. Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels It was in the little opening between the proscenium and the curtain that the man in evening dress unexpectedly appeared. White Ashes Behind the proscenium is a large space with staircases of approach, two windows at the rear, and apparently a fireplace for the comfort of the waiting players. Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration The proscenium is beautifully carved and frescoed, and is adorned with busts of the elder Booth and the proprietor of the theatre; and in the sides before the curtain are arranged six sumptuous private boxes. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City No one noticed, however, that Luciola threw a look at the gentleman in the proscenium box, directing his attention to that occupied by Radetzky's adjutant. The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I But the old Jinx proceeded to put his No. 3 seal on de Reszke’s voice that year, and he and the opera were heard from no more under the proscenium arch. The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison They all attended the opera one evening, and a brilliant appearance they made as they sat in one of the proscenium boxes. His Heart's Queen This proscenium, given in plan and elevation, shows a semi-circular structure with a radius of fifteen feet, two stories in height, of the Corinthian or Composite order. Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration At the theatre, in a proscenium box, the publicity, the light and movement, the action of the play, all helped to distract and quiet her. The Fruit of the Tree Riding across the field of wheat, which extended all over the scene of the Spartan gymnastic exhibitions, we stood on the proscenium and contemplated these silent ruins, and the broad, beautiful landscape. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two Such pictures as those have a broad background; they are not circumscribed within the proscenium frame. Shadows of the Stage The bare boards of the platform-stage, which no proscenium nor curtain darkened, projected so far into the auditorium, that the actors spoke in the very centre of the house. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays The upper order of the proscenium 9 ft. Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration He saw again that dingy little hall, with its small proscenium opening guarded by a frayed old curtain, and he smiled as he remembered the landscape it bore. Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter The vast steel curtain arose with apparent reluctance to the top of the proscenium arch, the chatter of voices ceased, somewhat permitting the struggling orchestra to make itself felt and heard. Beth Norvell A Romance of the West Pit, stalls, and proscenium were formed into one grand room, in which the crowd promenaded. Great Violinists And Pianists The stage extended between a proscenium or front, stretching out upon the orchestra by means of a wooden platform, which has disappeared, and the postscenium or side scenes. The Wonders of Pompeii The ambassador and his wife, who had only returned forty-eight hours before, sat in one of the large proscenium boxes. The Northern Light Some act it before the altar or beneath the proscenium arch; some speak it, now in Cassandra-tones, now comfortably like shepherds of frail sheep. Preaching and Paganism They surely never think of the great size of the stage, of the distance from the proscenium arch to the footlights, or from the arch to the first set of wings. Vocal Mastery Talks with Master Singers and Teachers For answer she turned and began walking slowly across the room toward the door in the proscenium that led to the stage. The Real Adventure There were square niches in the walls of the proscenium either for statues or for policemen to keep an eye on the spectators. The Wonders of Pompeii In the pride of victory the young poet cast a glance toward the proscenium box whose inmates he had already recognized. The Northern Light The artificial setting of the stage, the lighted proscenium before the dark house, have removed the whole action from the world which is connected with our own deeds. The Photoplay A Psychological Study The ceiling of the stage to be at least twice as high as the proscenium arch. Why the Chimes Rang: A Play in One Act |
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