The host walked onto the proscenium.

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John Macfarlane’s set completes the Met’s gold proscenium with a fourth edge across the front of the stage, creating a picture frame for the Dutchman’s portrait—a giant eye. Heidi Waleson, WSJ, "Keelhauling Wagner," 4 Mar. 2020

See more updates Updated 5m ago More live coverage: Markets New York Dance is no longer being shown live on proscenium stages, but its materiality haunts New York City. New York Times, "How We Use Our Bodies to Navigate a Pandemic," 31 Mar. 2020

References to Dryer’s job as a theater designer for the avant-garde company Mabou Mines recur in her art, like ruminations, most evident in gestures to curtains and frame-like proscenium arches. Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, "Moira Dryer’s art of expectancy, at the Phillips Collection and Greater Reston Arts Center," 27 Feb. 2020

The South Carolina native was a pioneer in opening up the Hollywood musical, expanding the proscenium arch of the stage. Duane Byrge, Billboard, "Stanley Donen, Famed Director of Mirthful Movie Musicals, Dies at 94," 23 Feb. 2019

The stage is divided by three proscenium arches, asymmetrical and distorted as though seen in a fun-house mirror or a bad dream. Andrea Simakis, cleveland, "Kander and Ebb’s ‘The Scottsboro Boys’ at the Beck Center entrances as it weaves its story of savage racial injustice," 16 Feb. 2020

The work’s title appears in big red letters at the bottom of the painting, below a close-up of a naked female posterior that’s framed by a trompe l’oeil proscenium arch. Karen Rosenberg, New York Times, "Overlooked No More: Pauline Boty, Rebellious Pop Artist," 20 Nov. 2019

Sachs’s proscenium-like images catch glints off the sword-sharp edges of the elegant dialogue. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, "“Frankie” and the Performance of Life in the Face of Death," 25 Oct. 2019

With the orchestra onstage, the pit will be covered so that singers can move out past the proscenium and closer to the front of the stage. Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, "Fast-rising soprano makes U.S. debut in title role of S.D. Opera’s ‘Aida’," 13 Oct. 2019

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