proscenium-arch

Across the length of the theatre two proscenium-arch stages face each other.

Earthquakes in London; The Good Soldier; FIB 2010

Mr. Goold says that one problem with proscenium-arch productions was that he had come to realize that they need to have one big theme or concept, such as ' Richard III ' on crutches or the 1950s-style ' Comedy of Errors ' in 1978.

Age Shall Not Wither Her Paul Levy 2010

Everybody has been wondering how it could possibly be done in all these proscenium-arch theatres.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Marc Lee 2011

These are the equivalent of downstage and upstage in a proscenium-arch theater.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3 1984

He had firmly made up his mind as they entered to obtain a place in the rear corner of the box, where he could not be seen; but he was not prepared for the generalship of Mrs. Sharpe, who so manoeuvered it as to force him to the very edge, between herself and Garland, and, as she turned to him with a laughing remark which, in pantomime, had all the confidential understanding of most cordial and intimate acquaintanceship, Bobby glanced apprehensively across at the other side of the proscenium-arch.

The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man George Randolph Chester 1896

"Even assuming that there are people who like such novels, or pictures, or music, your case is none the better, for ordinary people don't get trapped into being bored by them, and such works can live without general support, whilst drama has to appeal to the bulk of us, and you cannot stick over the proscenium-arch some phrase such as 'Philistines will be irritated.'

Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" Edward Fordham Spence 1896