How Do You Solve a Problem Like Kalita?
What the tangled history of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Kalita Humphreys Theater in Dallas can teach us about the stages of tomorrow.
All Stories About Theatre architecture
Get Past the Lobby: Theatres Rethink How We Gather
From Arkansas to Harlem, theatres are using lobbies, rooftops, exhibition spaces, and more to expand the ways they can gather and engage their communities.
A Big Table: What the New Irish Arts Center Means for New York
The company’s glittering new $60 million building, long in the works, puts the emphasis on multidisciplinary programming and Irish hospitality.
Featured Contributors, July/August 2017
Theatre architecture’s cyclical history, and the newest state-of-the-art space at Chicago Shakes.
This Must Be the Place
You can tell where theatre happens from its name.
Offscript: Theatre Architecture, ‘Disgraced’ in China
On this week’s podcast, we interview Alison Friedman of Ping Pong Productions, which regularly takes American productions to China. Plus the editors discuss Hedy Weiss, ‘Julius Caesar,’ and the history of theatre architecture.
Hugh Hardy: Bringing Life to Buildings
The designer and restorer of some of his city’s most iconic theatre spaces was something of a New York icon himself.
Letters: Black Box Blowback
Several responses to Joshua Dachs’ Jan. ’21 essay deploring the spurious ‘neutrality’ of so many theatre spaces.
The Neutrality Trap
The great minds of 20th-century theatre wanted to free our thinking about theatre spaces. How did we end up in a black box?
A Lively Theatre
There’s a revolution afoot in theatre design that takes its cue from the three-dimensional spaces of centuries past.
