proscenium

noun4

1. •
   The stage area between the curtain and the orchestra.

   • It looks like a film, a meticulous, detailed, visually balanced wide-screen Wes Anderson one. There’s no proscenium, no stage, no wings, no audience. — 2023
2. •
   The row of columns at the front of the scene building, at first directly behind the circular orchestra but later upon a stage.

   • The front of the scene-building and of the parascenia came to be decorated with a row of columns, the proscenium (πρό, "before"+σκηνή). — 1936
3. •
   A proscenium arch.

   • Screamers trumpeted from the roof of the supermarket, white storks rattled their bills as their surveyed the town from the proscenium of the filling-station. — 1979
4. •
   The stage area immediately in front of the scene building.