 Most theaters still standing today date from the Hellenistic period.In Roman theatres, "scaenae frons" ("facade of the skene") is the term for the elaborately decorated stone screens, rising two or three stories, that the skene had now become.By the 1st century BC, the "skene" was as elaborate as its Roman development, which dispensed with the orchestra altogether, leaving a relatively low "proscaenium" facade, often decorated, and a wide stage or "pulpitum" behind, ending in an elaborate "scaenae frons" with three or more doors, and sometimes three stories.