Till 1^st century AD

The roman theaters are a combination of Italian and Hellenistic features. The theaters in the capital were built on flat ground.

The orchestra losts its importance, so the actors and the viewers came closer. The semi-circle surface which was in front of the koilon (namely the rest of the old orchestra) was used for the placement of the honorable seats. The side entrances (parodoi) gained a domical roof and were filled with seats. At the highest spot of the koilon a domical stoa and a small temple was erected. The proscenium became lower and the logion had a bigger focus. Also a big curtain was used, the aulaeum. Next to the skene the paraskinia existed and behind the skene help rooms for the actors existed, the postscaenium. A stoa also behind the skene, the porticus post scaenam,, was used by the spectators in the intermissions or in case of rain.