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theatre of the Auditorium Building in Chicago
theatre of the Auditorium Building in Chicago The theatre of the Auditorium Building, Chicago, by Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan (1889), a horseshoe-shaped theatre with a proscenium stage.

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proscenium, in theatre, the frame or arch separating the stage from the auditorium, through which the action of a play is viewed. In the ancient Greek theatre, the proscenium (Greek: proskēnion) originally referred to a row of colonnades, supporting a raised acting platform (logeion), and afterward to the entire acting area. A proscenium in the modern sense was first installed in a permanent theatre in 1618–19 at the Farnese Theatre built in Parma, Italy. It had been introduced as a temporary structure at the Italian court about 50 years earlier. Although this arch did contain a stage curtain, its main ...(100 of 285 words)

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