Word: proscenium
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...factor may be that it looks out on a water view that's calmer and more predictable than a cityscape. The Wyly is also a very flexible cavity, with movable banks of seats and balconies that can slide in and out or fly up and disappear. Even the proscenium can be raised and lowered. The idea here is that theater has ancient roots and a completely unpredictable future...
...Harvard theater scene would finally get exactly what it had been missing: a theater. The Loeb, designed by Hugh Stubbins, was to be a state of the art facility, technologically advanced and innovatively designed. The flexible main stage allowed for three different set-ups, an Elizabethan theater, a proscenium and a theater in the round. The experimental theater next door was exciting in its originality...
...boys themselves… test the notion of what it means to sit in seats and listen to a teacher. They’re very active, so there’s no reason why this play needs to be done like classroom, teacher, and audience in a proscenium. I think it’s more of an interactive piece.” Caplan agrees that the play deserves this kind of intimate setting. “It’s written to be played around with,” he said. “The script has a very strong...
Over one year ago, University President Drew G. Faust christened the New College Theatre, prefacing the venue’s first performance in the new space with a grand announcement. Framed by the proscenium arch and backed by a billowing red curtain, Faust joyfully declared the formation of a “Task Force for the Arts” before introducing the play to come. “It is my hope,” Faust said at the time, “that the Task Force will complete the bulk of its work during the 2007-08 academic year...
...what else? -- herself. The result is Girlie Show, an essay in retro show biz. As another star with some mileage on her said in Sunset Blvd., ''Not a comeback, a return.'' The show is a return to the womb of popular culture: a calculated peek at American innocence. The proscenium stage is fronted with red drapery suitable for a Louisiana bordello; the title promises and delivers burlesque. But burlesque in the older sense of parody, travesty, impudent fun. There is humid sexuality at the start of the two-hour extravaganza (topless acrobat on a phallic pole, Madonna easing a whip...