Word: proscenium
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...stage will be 90 by 25 feet, and the proscenium arch will have an opening 80 feet wide, half as wide again as the opening of the largest operatic stage in the world. The size of this opening insures a perfect view of the stage from every side of the Bowl. Every one of the 20,000 spectators will have an equal opportunity of hearing the performance...
...class in architecturre at the University, under the direction of Frederick M. Mann, is now working out the design and construction of the theatre, taking up successively the proscenium arch, the seating arrangements, the lighting effects, etc. Charles E. Skinner, of the rhetoric department, who conducts the class in dramatic technique, has general charge of the project, and with Mr. Mann is securing for the playhouse the latest ideas in lighting and scenic effects. The theatre will have its own orchestra pit, seating eight or ten pieces, and its own greenroom and dressing rooms. The productions will be written...
...necessary to eliminate 10 sections of the Stadium or the equivalent of 6,000 seats. This distance is 175 feet in length and will be taken from the open end of the Stadium. The stage itself will be over 150 feet long with a depth of 75 feet, a proscenium opening of 100 feet, and an apron of 5 feet...
Some idea of the difficulties under such it has had to work may be gained nothing the following dimensions of the stage: proscenium arch, 20 feet, inches; backline, 17 feet, 10 inches; at wings, 11 feet, 4 inches. In of the ambitions productions which Workshop attempts to stage, the size the stage on which it has to work is a handicap...
...production is ambitious and interesting. For one of the first times in this country a setting is shown such as Munich and other German cities have long used for Shakespearean plays. A dark blue cyclrama drop fills the back of the stage. At front as a kind of inner proscenium, or as replacing the tormentors of former days, are doors at left and right in panels painted to represent marble. Pinkish curtains carry the eye back from the drop curtain to these panels. Properties or bits of setting placed between these panels and the back drop vary the full-stage...