Box (theatre)

Boxes are typically placed immediately to the front, side and above the level of the stage.

They are separate rooms with an open viewing area which typically seat five people or fewer.

In theatres without box seating the loge can refer to a separate section at the front of the balcony.

In other countries, sports venues have luxury boxes also known as skyboxes, where access is open to anyone who can afford tickets, sometimes bought by companies.

Opera boxes were a status of wealth and high social standing in the 18th and 19th centuries.

In this 1896 lithograph of people watching a Vitascope film, the curtains just left of the screen mark the top and sides of a box, with several people sketched inside of it; the curtains could be closed for privacy if the people renting the box wanted
The interior of the Palais Garnier , an opera house , showing the stage and auditorium, the latter including the floor seats and the opera boxes above