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.” Beyond creating some of the ...

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 for ...

In “As You Like It,” Shakespeare wrote, “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” But did you know that there are several types of stages for all those players to play on?