proscænium

Noun

proscenium (plural prosceniums or proscenia)

1. The stage area between the curtain and the orchestra.
   • It looks like a film, a meticulous, detailed, visually balanced wide-screen Wes Anderson one. There’s no proscenium, no stage, no wings, no audience.2023 June 15, Manohla Dargis, “‘Asteroid City’ Review: Our Town and Country”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
2. The stage area immediately in front of the scene building.
3. The row of columns at the front of the scene building, at first directly behind the circular orchestra but later upon a stage.
   • The front of the scene-building and of the parascenia came to be decorated with a row of columns, the proscenium (πρό, "before"+σκηνή).1936, Roy C. Flickinger, The Greek Theater and Its Drama, 4th edition, page 58
4. A proscenium arch.
   • Screamers trumpeted from the roof of the supermarket, white storks rattled their bills as their surveyed the town from the proscenium of the filling-station.1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 19