How to Use proscenium in a Sentence

proscenium

noun

• The host walked onto the proscenium.
• The guys with the mics rhyme not from a proscenium, but amidst the crowd.
  — Vulture, 15 Sep. 2023
• Gustern would liken the mouth to a theater, and the arch over the tongue a proscenium.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2022
• The proscenium has been reduced in size at least twice since the theater opened in 1835.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2017
• When those big old stage lights came on in the proscenium arch theater, my whole heart leapt.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 19 Dec. 2022
• The proscenium theater, which would have the largest footprint of the new additions, would sit along the southern edge of the park.
  — Dallas News, 8 Dec. 2022
• With the orchestra onstage, the pit will be covered so that singers can move out past the proscenium and closer to the front of the stage.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2019
• Out goes the proscenium arch and the entire fabric and texture.
  — David Benedict, Variety, 13 Dec. 2021
• The gilded proscenium masks — sorry to use that word — the fact that most of the scenic design is made from curtains.
  — Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023
• Otherwise, Nelson and Carrazana will walk around, sit on the floor and on the lip of the proscenium stage, and mostly just talk.
  — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 23 July 2019
• So Daldry breaks through the proscenium pretense to let his characters talk to the camera (us).
  — Armond White, National Review, 3 Sep. 2021
• Mary stage right, Joseph stage left, with the Magi hovering near the proscenium.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 24 Nov. 2020
• At the opening of the third act, the stage was dominated by a two-story house that very nearly filled the proscenium.
  — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 7 June 2018
• The gleaming metal bas-reliefs above the proscenium arch are pure ‘30s swank.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2022
• The original, set to a score by Cage — it won’t be played at the beach, which provides its own score — was created for the proscenium stage.
  — Gia Kourlas Amir Hamja, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• So the sound of instruments behind the proscenium is sucked up in the flies and wings of the stage at least as much as it’s projected out to the audience.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 14 Oct. 2020
• Early in her career, Brown wanted no part of the proscenium stage.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 24 June 2019
• 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.
  — New York Times, 26 Sep. 2021
• The Wilbur crowd was buzzing even before Rock entered the proscenium a little after 8 p.m.
  — Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Mar. 2022
• Located on the south end of the complex, its proscenium is framed by the skeletal remnants of the original east shed.
  — Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2022
• Gone is the proscenium, gone are the front rows of seats, and now a long walkway thrusts toward the audience in a darkened atmosphere.
  — Mel Shields, sacbee.com, 22 June 2017
• 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.
  — Amy Kaufman, latimes.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• The dark cityscape acts as a proscenium, beyond which are the lights, turntables and a stool, now empty: In his version, the invisible man is gone.
  — New York Times, 11 June 2021
• 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.
  — Sarah L. Kaufman, Washington Post, 2 June 2022
• The full-scale stage had a seamless backstage area, proscenium and curtain that measured roughly half the length of an Olympic-sized swimming pool.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2023
• But now, stepping past the proscenium of his private life and performing on the public stage, Douglas faces great risk.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2021
• Sachs’s proscenium-like images catch glints off the sword-sharp edges of the elegant dialogue.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2019
• Theater fans were invited to bring their dogs to the Drake Theatre and unleash them on the proscenium stage, transformed into a sort of dog park.
  — John Timpane, Philly.com, 25 June 2018
• This will create artistic and budgetary questions for the Rep on some shows, because the proscenium setup adds about 100 seats to the audience.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 8 May 2024
• The story unfolds on the deck’s deep shade of red, with the proscenium doubling as the icon of Asian American grocery products, the omnipresent and awesome 99 Ranch Market.
  — David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024