Examples of “proscenium” in a Sentence

noun The area of a stage that lies between the curtain and where the orchestra is positioned.

• It looks like a film, a meticulous, detailed, visually balanced wide-screen Wes Anderson one. There’s no proscenium, no stage, no wings, no audience. — Manohla Dargis, ‘Asteroid City’ Review: Our Town and Country (2023)

noun A line of pillars at the front of the backdrop, originally set behind the round performing area and later built onto the stage itself.

• The front of the scene-building and of the parascenia came to be decorated with a row of columns, the proscenium (πρό, "before"+σκηνή). — Roy C. Flickinger, The Greek Theater and Its Drama (1936)

noun The arch that frames the front of a stage.

• Screamers trumpeted from the roof of the supermarket, white storks rattled their bills as their surveyed the town from the proscenium of the filling-station. — J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company (1979)