proscenium

1. (in a modern theater) The stage area between the curtain and the orchestra.Examples: "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."

2. (in an ancient theater) The stage area immediately in front of the scene building.

3. (in an ancient theater) The row of columns at the front the scene building, at first directly behind the circular orchestra but later upon a stage.Examples: "The front of the scene-building and of the parascenia came to be decorated with a row of columns, the proscenium (πρό, "before"+σκηνή)."