Word: proscenium
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Sheindlin was tapped for the show by Larry Lyttle, president of Big Ticket Television, who argues that she is an antidote to America's not-so-rewarding experiences with the judicial system. "We broke the proscenium of the courtroom world with the O.J. trial, and when we pierced that proscenium we saw stuff we hated," he says. "When Judy showed the audience that she was decisive, that was the elixir for all the malaise that we'd suffered...
...your eye close to the window, several floors up; and this contributes a dreamlike tone to the image, as though you were levitating while the man and woman remained bound by gravity. This is not realism, but the scene is intensely real, a vignette framed in the dark proscenium of the window...
...world of theater, as Andre Antoine's quote states in the program, "the fourth wall is the name we give to the hypothetical wall that separates the stage from the audience in a proscenium theatre...
...built for the Orfeo Catala, a choral-music society. Pablo Casals and Montserrat Caballe, both Catalans, began their careers here. From the mosaic-sheathed ticket office to the stupendous inverted bell of a stained-glass skylight in the auditorium, from the sculpted Valkyries riding across the proscenium arch to the encrustations of ceramic roses (each the size of a cabbage) on the ceiling, it takes decor beyond congestion; and yet, because it is also one of Europe's earliest curtain-wall buildings, framed in a steel grid, Catalan historians are fond of praising its "rationalism" -- which was also real...
...long-suppressed and now acclaimed production of Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground at Moscow's Theater for Young Spectators, the withdrawn and embittered central character repeatedly pushes with all his might against the immovable proscenium arch at the side of the stage. The gesture is an apt visual metaphor not only for a melancholy nobody's passion to smash the barriers of loneliness but also for the yearning of the whole Moscow drama world to break down the confines of habit and tradition. Everywhere one goes in the theater these days, the same artistic self-criticism is heard: there...