Examples from literature

• His book is a repository of theatrical information, but the great part of it of more absorbing concern for the manager's-room or the stage-door than, say, the dress circle. 
• Imagine it filled with people from foot-lights to the last row in the topmost gallery—orchestra, dress circle, and balconies—a huge uprising, semicircular bowl, lined with human beings. 
• In those days the theatre had no stalls, so we sat in the front row of the dress circle, Tom having in his modesty refused a box. 
• It was like a stage scene viewed from the dress circle. 
• One bar is generally just opposite the entrance to the dress circle, an arrangement which is particularly annoying to ladies.