Word: proscenium
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...Dream as a gamut for the stage, a series of isometric exercises for a theater company. In its roughly 2000 lines--far shorter than a Hamlet or a Lear--are scenes of courtly reserve and natural abandon, metaphysical mystery and droll stupidity, gathered up and joined behind the proscenium of Shakespeare's florid verse. Where a play like Troilus and Cressida yokes different forms of theater violently together, Midsummer Night's Dream carefully weaves them in, under, and through each other--thus the shimmering, unsettled brilliance it displays in the hands of a good director. It's a fine opportunity...
This is a theater, possibly unique, that can convert mechanically from proscenium to theater-in-the-round staging. To switch from conventional to arena staging, the first 100 seats in the center of the orchestra can be removed (manually) and placed on bleachers on the regular stage. Giant plates under the right and left orchestra sections swivel those seats around so that they now face each other over an intervening gap. That gap is filled when hydraulic jackets lift a new stage floor. The result is a circle-in-the-square, with seats on all four sides. For students...
...numbers are exceptionally well done. Rather than restage them for television-a deflating technique endemic to PBS's Theater in America series-Kaye shoots them on a proscenium stage, usually with the help of the original set designs, orchestrations and choreography...
Television drama-leaving aside the question of TV news, whose effects are a different phenomenon altogether-becomes more complicated when it is considered as a medium of persuasion, the little electronic proscenium alive with potentially sinister ideological glints. In years past, American TV has been considered a moderately conservative influence. From the suburban complacencies of Ozzie and Harriet through the vanquishing six-gun authority of Sheriff Matt Dillon, TV entertainment seemed an elaborate gloss on the status...
...course of two hours. They seemed to have all they needed to conjure up a '40s nightclub--dim lights, thick smoke, and swinging music. But they missed the intimacy of a nightclub-sized area; the Loeb stage is pretty forbidding, especially when it's set up as a proscenium instead of the modified theater-in-the-round Loeb directors often choose. Michael Der Manuelian, Ellington's director, didn't even try to protect his performers against the mainstage's tendency to dwarf actors. They sometimes looked a little lost; Ellington at Eight could have far better succeeded...