An auditorium is a room built to enable an audience to hear and watch performances. For movie theatres , the number of auditoriums is expressed as the number of screens . Auditoriums can be found in entertainment venues, community halls, and theaters, and may be used for rehearsal, presentation, performing arts productions, or as a learning space .
3-608: Sumner High School and Sumner Auditorium , now the Sumner Town Hall is a historic high school building and auditorium in Sumner, Georgia , Worth County, Georgia . It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 27, 1996. The buildings are located at 716 Walnut Street. The auditorium is used as Sumner's Town Hall . The old school building is used by Worth County. This article about
6-639: A property in Georgia on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Auditorium 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 , divided by broad 'belts', called diazomata , with eleven rows of seats between each. The audience in
9-458: A modern theatre are usually separated from the performers by the proscenium arch , although other types of stage are common. The price charged for seats in each part of the auditorium (known in the industry as the house ) usually varies according to the quality of the view of the stage. The seating areas can include some or all of the following: Sports venues such as stadiums and racetracks also have royal boxes or enclosures, for example at
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