New York theater is still very much proscenium-based, and true pop-ups like Kazino are rare finds.

WSJ: Don't Call It Dinner Theater

In the half-light, the proscenium glowed like a bright department-store window, which shadowy people behind it were dressing.

NEWYORKER: The Natural

Fixed at the center of the blue-curtained Memorial Hall proscenium, the 2013 "Fireworks" offered a luminous evocation in striking blacks, whites and grays of Balla's full-color cubistic landscape of plains and pinwheels.

WSJ: A Puppeteer's 'Rite' of Passage | Basil Twist | By Robert Greskovic

Its regal interior contains nearly thirty-eight hundred seats, a square gold proscenium, and a highly mechanized stage, as well as the largest tab curtain in the world, made of gold damask.

NEWYORKER: Metropolitan Opera House

There, he collapses backward as Stravinsky's final, bleating note cues the escape from within the proscenium space of a silky wisp of pure-white fabric, sending it like a comet into the auditorium ceiling.

WSJ: A Puppeteer's 'Rite' of Passage | Basil Twist | By Robert Greskovic

As the mind-numbing tech rehearsal rolled on, from my perspective in the orchestra the proscenium blurred and became a kind of silent screen on which the players signalled their meaning through gesture and mime.

NEWYORKER: The Natural