Word: prosceniums
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...curtain went up for the first time last night at the Loeb Drama Center as the resident genie uncorked another version of the three-in-one main stage. Some eve perhaps we shall see the third face, but for now the proscenium of Sullivan has replaced the open stage of Shakespeare. And a smashing good picture-frame stage--handsome, good sight-lines, all attention focused on stage--has come from the drawing boards of Messrs. Izenour and Stubbins...
...Pirates of Penzance is not, to my mind, one of the better G & S books. This production overcomes the script's defects, despite a few of its own, and provides an entertaining, although not spectacularly so, evening to open the Loeb proscenium theatre...
Outlining the evolution of an unusual playhouse, Hugh Stubbins, the architect, shows how Loeb can be used as a proscenium or Elizabethan stage, or a theatre-in-the-round. (Page...
After this meeting, it was decided to include a curved seating arrangement, but this decision seemingly complicated the idea for using lifts to convert the normal proscenium seating to an open stage projecting into the audience, with seats on three sides. A number of different ways of converting the theater and moving some of the seats as well as the stage were considered...
...poems her letters to the world). It is possible also for painters to paint possible for their agents. It is even possible for novelists to write novels only the initiated can decipher. But a play without a participating audience is simply not a play. The stage, even in its proscenium days, was never comprehended within the three inward dimensions but always had the fourth of the attending consciousness--a fourth dimension which the Noh play symbolized by the brooding figure waiting at the bridge. The young man of talent who thinks he can teach himself to be a playwright...