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Next up is removal and storage of historic architectural features, such as the theater’s original proscenium arch, to be reinstalled in the new playhouse.
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Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 6 June 2025
The beach becomes a stage for human behavior, and Nat Ward’s images create the proscenium arch for these domestic scenes.
—Literary Hub, 22 May 2025
The division between the two stages is actually the proscenium arch of the stage that Maxine performs on.
—Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Apr. 2024
David Zinn’s set design, all framed with a flashy vaudeville-esque proscenium arch, is a grand playing field, even if the staging does push the action into strangely tight spaces and leaves too much empty space.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2024
By extending the stage into a thrust and, behind the proscenium arch, creating layer after overlapping layer in the playing space using curtains, scrims, and elegant, rotatable scenery, Shimizu renders the play’s palimpsest tangible.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2023
Radio City Music Hall’s proscenium arch helped drive home the more theatrical parts of the show, with some of Monáe’s mid-song quips and speeches having the endearing air of an off-Broadway musical.
—Kyle Denis, Billboard, 27 Sep. 2023
The staging, like the material itself, is both approachable (an effect magnified by David Korins’s set, which shrinks the theater down to manageable scale by adding a second proscenium arch behind Edelman) and stealthily unsetting.
—Vulture, 27 June 2023
The chip display was admirable, with boxes stacked elaborately into a proscenium arch.
—Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2023
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Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 6 June 2025
The beach becomes a stage for human behavior, and Nat Ward’s images create the proscenium arch for these domestic scenes.
—Literary Hub, 22 May 2025
The division between the two stages is actually the proscenium arch of the stage that Maxine performs on.
—Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Apr. 2024
David Zinn’s set design, all framed with a flashy vaudeville-esque proscenium arch, is a grand playing field, even if the staging does push the action into strangely tight spaces and leaves too much empty space.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2024
By extending the stage into a thrust and, behind the proscenium arch, creating layer after overlapping layer in the playing space using curtains, scrims, and elegant, rotatable scenery, Shimizu renders the play’s palimpsest tangible.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2023
Radio City Music Hall’s proscenium arch helped drive home the more theatrical parts of the show, with some of Monáe’s mid-song quips and speeches having the endearing air of an off-Broadway musical.
—Kyle Denis, Billboard, 27 Sep. 2023
The staging, like the material itself, is both approachable (an effect magnified by David Korins’s set, which shrinks the theater down to manageable scale by adding a second proscenium arch behind Edelman) and stealthily unsetting.
—Vulture, 27 June 2023
The chip display was admirable, with boxes stacked elaborately into a proscenium arch.
—Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2023
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“Proscenium arch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/proscenium%20arch. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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