The proscenium arch perfectly framed a still-glowin,’ still-crowin’ Carol Channing in “Hello, Dolly!” and drew all eyes to a gravity-defying Idina Menzel in “Wicked.” ...

In his 1997 book “Architects of the Web,” Rhapsody founder Rob Reid calls this phenomenon “shooting the proscenium arch,” referring to the “proscenium” that frames a traditional stage.

Proscenium-arch productions of Shakespeare have fallen out of fashion, but is it time to cast aside our prejudice? Leading Shakespeare scholar Stanley Wells explains why front-on staging can make ...

The first proscenium arch is generally agreed to be the one in Parma, Italy, in the Teatro Farnese, built in 1618. What is quite spectacular about the Teatro is that the space on the stage side of ...