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'Auditorium' Answer questions from other users is a room built
to enable an audience to hear and watch performances at venues
such as theatres. For movie theaters, the number of auditoriums
is expressed as the number of screens The term is taken from
Latin (from audītōrium , from audītōrius (“‘pertaining to
hearing’”)); the concept is taken from the Greek auditorium,
which had a series of semi-circular seating shelves in the
theatre The theatre of Ancient Greece, or ancient Greek drama,
is a theatrical culture that flourished in ancient Greece
between c. 550 and c. 220 BC. The city-state of Athens, which
became a significant cultural, political and military power
during this period, was its centre, where it was... , divided by
broad 'belts', called diazomata , with eleven rows of seats
between each. Modern auditorium structure The audience in a
modern theatre are usually separated from the performers by the
proscenium arch, although other types of