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plural prosceniums or proscenia
(in a modern theater) The stage area between the curtain and the orchestra. quotations examples
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.
2023 June 15, Manohla Dargis, “‘Asteroid City’ Review: Our Town and Country”, in The New York Times
(in an ancient theater) The stage area immediately in front of the scene building. examples
(in an ancient theater) The row of columns at the front the scene building, at first directly behind the circular orchestra but later upon a stage. quotations examples
The front of the scene-building and of the parascenia came to be decorated with a row of columns, the proscenium (πρό, "before"+σκηνή).
1936, Roy C. Flickinger, The Greek Theater and Its Drama, 4th edition, page 58
A proscenium arch. quotations examples
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.
1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 19