The new expansion of the Arena Stage is nothing if not theatrical. Eighteen monumental columns of Douglas fir sustain a 45-foot-tall glass curtain wall, which curves like a giant Alvar Aalto vase. A cantilevered white cloud of a roof salutes .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77635Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-77635
Maybe there really are no second acts in American lives, as F. Scott Fitzgerald famously pronounced. But the lives of American theaters are a different story. On Oct. 23—after seven years in planning, three years in constructing and $135 million in financing—the 60-year-old Arena Stage, .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77631Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-77631

By Maura Judkis

The new cradle of American theater was first rocked by artist Richard Serra. The Kogod Cradle - so named because it is intended to cradle the innovative works of American playwrights - is the newest theater within the gleaming .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77632Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-77632
Peer closely and you'll make out not one theatre behind that glass facade, but three. It's Bing Thom Architects' audacious response to the need to make artistic and architectural sense of two dysfunctional theatres in a deprived area of Washington DC. Ike Ijeh was wowed<.... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77633Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-77633
In the late 1950s, after poverty near the Capitol became a national embarrassment, blocks of old row houses in the southwest waterfront district here were bulldozed in a radical slum-clearing effort. Built in their place were several crisp apartment blocks by I. M. Pei and .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77629Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-77629
Washington likes its buildings imposing, their walls stone-solid—and the activities inside concealed and guarded 24-7. The city's century-old height limit preserves the iconic views of the Capitol at the cost of imposing a bulky and boxy shape on most large buildings, from concrete government .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77630Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-77630
Arena Stage's new building: a brilliant addition, and a challenge, to the city

As you negotiate the traffic-clogged lanes of I-395 as it passes over the Washington waterfront, look east, and there's a tonic on the horizon. The thin white roof of architect .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77626Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-77626
Arena Stage is about to make the most dramatic entrance in its storied, 60-year history, reintroducing itself to the city in a radical new shape, with a $135 million remodeling that seeks to turn it into a gleaming fixture of Southwest Washington and a national center .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77627Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-77627
Many artists come to New York to play the big room, and these days the biggest of the big rooms is the 55,000-square-foot Drill Hall at the Park Avenue Armory, a faded relic of the Gilded Age that has been gradually undergoing a $200 million conversion .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77628Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-77628
Like a seasoned orchestra, an arrangement of elite engineers, architects and consultants is working symphonically in downtown Las Vegas to create the Smith Center for the Performing Arts.

The $470 million multivenue music and performance complex at Grand Central Parkway and Bonneville Avenue promises .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77625Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-77625
They're going to build a international-level performing arts center where? South Miami-Dade County? Yes, specifically in Cutler Bay, formerly Cutler Ridge (before that known as the sticks or boonies). That's right. It's coming. And even if the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center is several years .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77622Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-77622
Utica's Stanley and Syracuse's Landmark theaters find their own ways to compete against Turning Stone

The operators of the Landmark Theatre in Syracuse and the Stanley Theatre in Utica knew they were in for some tough competition when the Turning Stone Resort and .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77624Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-77624
A long-planned $16 million renovation of the historic Landmark Theatre in downtown Syracuse is expected to begin this fall.

First announced in 2002, the renovation will take about a year. The theater's auditorium and stage will be closed to events, including the showing of movies, .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77623Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-77623
Here's something you probably don't know about Molly Smith, the artistic director of Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage: She's a parallel-parking whiz. It's not a talent to sneer at in a city that can be harder on automobile owners than it is on unconfirmed .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77714Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-77714
Jan Benzel is an editor at The Times who is being reassigned to Paris. Before she leaves, she is attempting to do all the things in the city that every New Yorker should do, at least once.

Lincoln Center, that Eisenhower-era complex of .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77621Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-77621
Costume Shop Director Joe Salasovich is pleased as punch with his set-up at Arena Stage's Mead Center for American Theater, which the company moved into last Monday—he's got more space, he's no longer hopping between locations in Northern Virginia and U Street NW, he .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77619Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-77619
Toward the end of our phone conversation Tuesday, I ask Arena Stage's artistic director, Molly Smith, if the company's choice of Oklahoma! as its late-October season-opener—the first performance in its dramatic, glassed-in, $125 million Mead

Center for American Theater on the Southwest waterfront—.... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77620Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-77620
Municipal Auditorium will have a new name — the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts — in honor of a local family known for its arts philanthropy and the result of what's believed to be the largest single arts-related donation in San Antonio history.

The .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77615Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-77615
On May 11, Stanford University broke ground on a new 844-seat performing arts space that will be a key element of an emerging campus arts complex presently anchored by the Cantor Center for Visual Arts.

Designed by New York's Polshek Partnership, the $110-million Bing .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77613Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-77613
Sometimes, architectural complexity comes in a simple form, even a box. The Diana Center, designed by New York–based Weiss/Manfredi for Barnard College, looks simple: a five-story glass prism served straight-up. Its terra-cotta color matches the largely brick Barnard and Columbia University campuses, which .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77611Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-77611
Marina Bay Sands is a high-density, mixed-use integrated resort that brings together a 2,561-room hotel, convention center, shopping and dining, theaters, museum, and a casino across the water from Singapore's Central Business District.  Designed by Boston-based architect Moshe Safdie, the 929,000 square meter (10 million square-foot) .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77616Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-77616
Weighing 19 tons in total and consisting of a maze of nearly 4,200 pipes that need to be put back together after years in storage, pieces of the city's only concert pipe organ were emptied on Monday from two semi-trailer trucks parked outside the newly rebuilt Alice .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77614Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-77614
As Spoleto Festival USA audiences celebrate the return of the Dock Street Theatre, artists and production staff are left grumbling about the challenges at another Spoleto venue, Gaillard Municipal Auditorium.

There is a section in the orchestra under the overhang of the balcony .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77612Sun, 13 Jun 2010 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-77612
I was eating lunch Monday at Chicago Hot Dogs on Rancho Drive when a woman sitting near me struck up a conversation with some people who had just given their order. She said her employer transferred her to Las Vegas three years ago, she doesn't .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77602Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-77602
From an Upper East Side townhouse to a SoHo storefront to a Long Island City warehouse, New York City's Museum for African Art has had three different homes since opening to the public in 1984. While this nomadic existence was somewhat fitting for a fledgling institution .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77596Wed, 19 May 2010 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-77596
Stanford University broke ground Tuesday morning on a 844-seat concert hall designed to gather all of the university's musical activities under one roof.

The $111.9 million Bing Concert Hall, named in honor of donors Helen and Peter Bing, will stand at the east end .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77595Wed, 12 May 2010 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-77595
On Tuesday, May 11, Stanford University will celebrate the groundbreaking for its state-of-the-art concert hall, which is slated for completion in summer 2012, with the first public performances in January 2013.

The 844-seat Bing Concert Hall has been designed for a wide range of music performances, .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77590Fri, 07 May 2010 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-77590
Envisioned as an oval ship rising from a sea of glass, the area's newest music venue, Bing Concert Hall, is scheduled for its groundbreaking ceremony next Tuesday (May 11) on the Stanford University campus.

The $112 million, 112,000-square-foot center has a high-profile pedigree: designed by .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77588Thu, 06 May 2010 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-77588
The board of the New School approved plans on Wednesday evening to build a 16-story, $353 million University Center, the largest construction project in the university's 91-year history in Greenwich Village.

The unusual bronze-and-glass structure will rise on Fifth Avenue, between 13th and 14th .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77587Wed, 05 May 2010 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-77587
Change comes slowly, at least psychologically, to Greenwich Village, which, despite the double-decker tourist buses and the crowds (still) lining up for cupcakes in front of the Magnolia Bakery, persists in thinking of itself as a sleepy bohemian enclave.

So the design for .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77593Wed, 05 May 2010 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-77593
At a time when arts organizations and universities are struggling to pay their bills, Stanford University is tuning up to break ground on the campus' first true concert hall with world-class acoustics financed by $112 million in private gifts.

The 844-seat Bing Concert Hall .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77594Wed, 05 May 2010 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-77594
What began in a rented townhouse on Manhattan's Upper East Side has grown to become an internationally recognized preeminent source for exhibitions and publications related to historical and contemporary African art.   The Museum for African Art will finally find a permanent home along .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77585Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-77585
City Center, dedicated by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in 1943 as Manhattan's first major performing arts center, is embarking on a $75 million renovation and restoration of its landmark neo-Moorish building on West 55th Street.

The renovation, which City Center is to announce on Wednesday, .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77584Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-77584
The Old Globe in San Diego is celebrating its 75th anniversary by christening the new Prebys Theatre Center and its centerpiece the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre. The White is a 250-seat arena theatre that replaces the 225-seat Cassius Carter Centre Stage. While much-loved for .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77583Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-77583
The valley's long awaited downtown cultural complex recently took a step closer to becoming a reality. The $470 million Smith Center for the Performing Arts, a multi-theater and concert venue, celebrated a construction milestone on Feb. 25. Southern Nevada elected officials and powerbrokers turned out to see .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77582Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-77582
When Columbia builds, the city cringes. It started so beautifully: In the 1890s, McKim, Mead & White laid out a serene campus on the rocky outcrop of Morningside Heights, its gated grounds defended by a stone perimeter. But few universities could have done a more .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77601Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-77601
You don't expect to find high architecture in a high school auditorium. But the Menlo-Atherton Center for Performing Arts upsets all expectations. Rooted to its site on Middlefield Road, it's an instant civic monument, a luminous and intimate theater and a top-quality teaching tool all .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77581Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-77581
On two occasions Don Snyder approached one of the nation's largest private philanthropic organizations about supporting a performing arts center in Las Vegas. Both times, Snyder says, the foundation said it wasn't interested in getting behind the project.

More than $150 million later, that .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77579Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-77579
The showdown will begin on April 27.

The two integrated resorts (IRs) on Singapore shores will finally lock horns - some five years after their winning bids - when Marina Bay Sands (MBS) throws open its doors to visitors, punters included, that day.
<.... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77576Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-77576
New School officials and project architects presented the latest plans for the University Center - to be built at the site of the school's current 65 Fifth Ave. - at a meeting of Community Board 2's Arts and Institutions Committee last Wednesday.

As its .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77573Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-77573
Las Vegas Sands Corp. said Tuesday it will open a portion of the $5.5 billion Marina Bay Sands in Singapore on April 27.

The project's nearly 3-acre SkyPark, which sits atop the hotel-casino's three 55-story hotel towers, will open June 23 as part of the overall .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77577Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-77577
Performers won't strike their first notes in the newly planned Bing Concert Hall for at least two years, but the music community here is already abuzz with anticipation.

University trustees last week announced that construction plans have been approved for the new $110 million .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77575Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-77575
The Washington theater company Arena Stage on Wednesday announced productions for its 2010-11 season that coincide with the grand opening of its new campus. The complex, the Mead Center for American Theater,  will include three theaters, rehearsal and shop space, and offices and will .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77571Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-77571
After a $125 million makeover -- the most expensive theater renovation in Washington history -- the first words to ring out at Arena Stage in Southwest Washington this fall will be old ones. But the sentiment they express, the company hopes, will seem as fresh and .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77572Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-77572
The plot of land at Symphony Park Avenue and City Parkway sits literally at the crossroads of Las Vegas' history. What was once home to the rail yard that helped put Las Vegas on the map in 1905 is becoming home to a performing arts center .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77570Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-77570
This plot of land at the corner of Symphony Park Avenue and City Parkway feels symbolic: What was once home to the railroad that put Las Vegas on the map as a city is now home to a performing arts center designed to put us .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77574Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-77574
By PATRICK HEALY
Published: February 8, 2010

Shakespeare enthusiasts, get thee to the Armory: the Royal Shakespeare Company will hold court in Manhattan in the summer of 2011 for an unprecedented six-week, five-play residency. The troupe will occupy a newly constructed theater inside the Park .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77564Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-77564
The 52nd Street Project, a non-profit that matches kids from Hells Kitchen with professional theater artists (Cynthia Nixon, Billy Crudup, and Edie Falco to name a few) to create original works, has officially opened in its permanent home designed by BKSK Architects. After occupying various .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77565Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-77565
Diana Center opened last week as Weiss / Manfredi has managed to settle almost imperceptibly between buildings Parisian pretensions to Broadway in New York. The building is an extension of the Barnard College of Liberal Arts.

The Barnard College's education has always aimed exclusively .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77578Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-77578
In the early 1960s Hugh Hardy worked as an assistant to Jo Mielziner, the theatrical designer. Mr. Mielziner was collaborating with Eero Saarinen on the design of the Vivian Beaumont Theater for the new Lincoln Center, and part of Mr. Hardy's job was to mediate .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77562Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-77562
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Part education research centre, part museum, part recording studio, part live music venue, the facility will create a space for innovative and creative programs for people of all ages.

In collaboration with the Cantos Music Foundation, .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77563Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-77563
As part of a $22-million upgrade, the Old Globe Theatre demolished a 224-seat in-the-round theater and replaced it with ... a 250-seat in-the-round theater. The spaces are so similar that, from your seat, you have to look closely to notice what's different.

Good thing.<.... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77561Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-77561
In 1975, Gerald Ford was president, the country was in the grips of a recession and, in Scottsdale, a new performing arts center opened with a concert by Grammy and Tony Award-winning singer and songwriter Roger Miller.

In 2009, Barack Obama serves as president, the .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77560Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-77560
Aqua Theater presents a challenge to an architect who has created dance clubs and carousels for ships.

"Think of bouncing up and down in the back of the school bus," Scott Butler says. "Now think of 135,000 gallons of water bouncing up from a .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77566Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-77566
Los Angeles, too often dismissed as "tinsel town" for its association with the entertainment industry, is a vibrant hub of the performing arts, with sophisticated audiences and an abundance of local talent. The LA Philharmonic fills the 2400 seats of Walt Disney Concert Hall for its .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77559Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-77559
The New School's 65 Fifth Avenue has had its head on the executioner's block, so to speak, for a few months already. But still in question this whole time has been what structure will replace it. After the locals fought off the variances required for the .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77558Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-77558
It's one of the better laughs in the Old Globe's marital musical "I Do! I Do!": When the uppity husband presents his wife with a full-page litany of complaints, she responds by pulling out a single index card of her own grievances - which proves .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77557Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-77557
Megan O'Toole, National Post: Thursday, December 17, 2009

The final piece of Regent Park's revitalization plan fell into place Wednesday as officials unveiled the blueprint for a $37-million arts and cultural centre.

The sleek, glass-fronted facility is designed by Diamond+Schmitt Architects, the .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77568Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-77568
The Old Globe Theatre staged more than 200 productions on the Cassius Carter Centre Stage, which is rather impressive considering that the space was never even meant to be a theater.

"It was supposed to be a tavern," explained Old Globe Executive Producer Lou .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77556Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-77556
When Conrad Prebys was growing up, theater opened his eyes. Now the developer and philanthropist is returning the favor.

Tomorrow, the Old Globe Theatre will open the $22 million Conrad Prebys Theatre Center, which boasts a technologically advanced performance space and an eye-popping array .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=186Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-186
San Diego's Old Globe Theatre this morning unveiled a $22-million theater and education center on its 3-acre campus in Balboa Park.

The new complex, which also includes an outdoor restaurant and a plaza, came in "on time and on budget," said Globe board .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=185Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-185
When the world's largest cruise ship Oasis of the Seas sails its first Caribbean cruise on December 1, passengers will experience exciting outdoor and indoor theaters, nightclubs and lounges, a skating rink, photo gallery and a landscaped park - all designed by Wilson Butler Architects . The .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=77567Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-77567

The transformation of Lincoln Center begins with the renovation of Alice Tully Hall

Lincoln Center is undergoing a profound transformation. This is not news to anyone who, in the last year, has tried to negotiate the plaza, which .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=184Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-184
The costs for a controversial plan to build a $64 million amphitheater in Coney Island could balloon further as city officials are now considering topping it off with a retractable roof.

Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz confirmed he's "actively pursuing the possibility of adding .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=183Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-183
It looked as if a large chunk of Hampshire, complete with trees, apartments, and a street lined with shops and bars, had broken off and floated out into the middle of the Solent.
But this was no monster piece of flotsam and jetsam but .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=181Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-181
Years of wishful thinking among members of Charleston's arts community and months of discussions among community leaders have produced a clear picture of a new downtown performing arts and civic center with an extensively renovated Gaillard Municipal Auditorium at its heart.

The Gaillard .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=182Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-182
Bing Thom, AIA, can rightfully say he's in the business of building cities-but not in the imperial, strong handed, single-authorship mode of Robert Moses or Corbusier. His Vancouver-based firm Bing Thom Architects specializes in regenerative urbanism that works on many scales, from individual cultural, institutional, .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=179Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-179
Architect Jack Diamond embraces high-tech tools but doesn't see the computer ever replacing pencil and paper when it comes to conceptual design

"I started in one room on my own some years ago," says Jack Diamond, 76, the founding principal of Diamond and Schmitt .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=180Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-180
In its previous incarnations over the last nine decades, Henry Miller's Theatre on West 43rd Street has been a Broadway mainstay, a discotheque, and a porn palace. Reaching back into the past was therefore something of a delicate matter for Cook + Fox Architects, which has .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=178Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-178
In weekend celebrations, audiences got their first look inside the architecturally bold new theater at Menlo-Atherton High School.

On Friday, the M-A community gathered for student performances. Saturday's grand opening featured the Menlo-Atherton Jazz Band and talks by M-A Principal Matthew Zito and .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=177Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-177
 It's big. It's bold. It certainly is bodacious. Perhaps the new performing arts center at Menlo-Atherton High School is also beautiful in its panorama of beige angles rising at the intersection of Ravenswood Avenue and Middlefield Road in Atherton.

Beauty depends on .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=176Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-176
Although Henry Miller's Theatre is part of the recently completed Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park, its exterior hardly looks brand new. The beautiful facade of the original 1918 building remains intact: the red brick walls, Greek-inspired urns, and neo-Georgian details are flanked by .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=174Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-174
When David M. Rubenstein turned 54, he read that white Jewish males were likely to live to 81. "So I said, 'I have 27 years to go,' " Mr. Rubenstein said. "I could be like the pharaohs and say, 'Bury me with my money.' Or I could .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=175Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-175
The stage is set! After months of planning and a multi-million dollar makeover, Nazareth College's Arts Center is reopening its doors.
    
The center officially opens Saturday with a special night of performances.
    
"The .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=173Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-173
Plans were unveiled last night for the Cantos National Music Centre in Calgary; the results of an eight month global design search and competition. Opened in March 2009, the contest was narrowed to five architecture firms by July, each of whom presented their vision to a .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=170Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-170
Allied Works Architecture of Portland, Ore., and New York City is the winner of an international architectural competition to design the new National Music Centre at the King Eddy, it was announced Wednesday by the Cantos Music Foundation.

Brad Cloepfil, the firm's 54-year-old .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=171Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-171
After 40 years of leading the Menlo-Atherton band in temporary spaces, Frank Moura is close to seeing a proper $32 million performing arts center open on the campus.

While the 492-seat theater with an orchestra pit, a small cafeteria and practice space is practically complete, .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=169Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-169
The Juilliard School will unveil its new state-of-the-art, multi-use space, the Rosemary and Meredith Willson Theater, at an Oct. 6 ceremony at the Manhattan school.

The theatre is named for the late composer of The Music Man and The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Juilliard alumnus .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=172Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-172

Transition Announcement

The last time I wrote about Joanna Baymiller publicly, it was to praise her successful albeit unconventional efforts to bring us greater attention and lead the charge to new .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=168Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-168
After six years of drama and delay, the Russian government has selected a replacement architect and revised design for the New Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg.

On July 28, officials selected Toronto-based Diamond and Schmitt Architects for the job through an international competition. The .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=165Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-165
After more than a year of the beep-beep of forklifts and the thumping of jackhammers, music will be heard again this fall at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, which is set to reopen with a new theater, a new artistic director and a .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=167Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-167
There's one key factor that gives the Great White Way its sense of permanence: those quirky 40 stages in a narrow patch of Midtown Manhattan. When one of them turns into a movie theater or becomes a dance club, it's cause for sadness. When one is .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=166Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-166
Success breeds success--in architecture especially. For proof, witness the meteoric rise of Diller Scofidio Renfro. A few years ago, the firm hadn't completed many large projects; they were best-known as high-minded conceptualists. But then came big commissions: for ICA in Boston, Alice Tully Hall in .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=164Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-164
Canadian architectural firm Diamond + Schmitt Architects won the international competition to design Mariinsky II, Russia's first new, grand-scale opera house since the Bolshevik Revolution.

The firm's head architect, Jack Diamond, spoke in a recent interview about what St. Petersburg will gain from the .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=162Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-162
Diller Scofidio + Renfro's Creative Arts Center for the Brown University campus is slated for completion in 2010.  The new 36,000 square foot center will include a 200 seat recital hall, 35mm screening facility, recording studio, multimedia lab, gallery space and large multi-purpose production studios.

Three .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=163Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-163
Russia is turning to a team of Toronto architects to design a new ballet and opera house at the renowned Mariinsky Theatre complex in St. Petersburg.

Diamond and Schmitt Architects was selected from five competitors around the world to work on the $450-million .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=160Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-160
Russia's world-renowned conductor Valery Gergiev announced that Diamond and Schmitt Architects of Toronto has been selected to design the new Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, which will add 2,000 seats to the growing Mariinsky complex. The existing Mariinsky Theatre, opened in 1860, has been home to premieres .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=161Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-161
Jack Diamond normally isn't a vodka man.

But he certainly was yesterday as he celebrated the Russian government's announcement that the Canadian architect had won an international competition to design one of the world's most sought-after commissions, the new Mariinsky Theatre in St. .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=157Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-157
Diamond and Schmitt Architects, the designers of the new concert hall adjacent to Place des Arts, have another major arts project to finish by 2011: the New Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg.

Sleek and rectangular like the Montreal facility, the new theatre will be .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=159Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-159
The Bexar County Performing Arts Center Foundation has chosen three teams to lead the acoustics, theatrical and cost consulting for the renovation of Municipal Auditorium into the premiere arts venue for San Antonio. Akustiks, an acoustical consulting firm, was chosen to lead the acoustical design .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=156Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-156
The final pieces of the design team have clicked into place for the remaking of the iconic Municipal Auditorium into a modern-day performing arts center.

Fisher Dachs Associates of New York will lead the theater planning and design, Connecticut-based Akustiks will lead the .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=158Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-158
The ambition and scale of the $100-million project that will transform the Cantos Music Foundation into the National Music Centre at the King Eddy comes into sharp focus with the architects' visions of what Calgary's newest cultural centre could be like.

Call it .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=155Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-155
The long-delayed Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center site is making a comeback.

A new proposal would rescue the PAC from the tangle of infrastructure in the middle of the Trade Center site and plunk it down where the Deutsche Bank .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=154Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-154
Museums are increasingly becoming like theaters, their once-staid display cases giving way to extended narratives and elaborate special effects. But now, after nearly two years of renovations, a theater has become more fully a museum. It is being incorporated into an expanding multibuilding exhibition that .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=153Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-153
The Bexar County Performing Arts Center Foundation has chosen Fisher Dachs Associates to join the team of Marmon Mok,  LMN Architects and A'Kustiks to redesign the Municipal Auditorium in San Antonio. The new performing arts center will highlight the unique character of an historic .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=152Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-152
This is a big year for golden anniversaries. Lincoln Center is marking its first half-century with a year-long celebration and an ambitious rebuilding program, and the Guggenheim Museum is honoring its 50th with a huge show that pays homage to its famous architect, Frank Lloyd .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=151Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-151
Eastman Kodak Company has committed $10 million to help complete the founder's original vision for the Eastman Theatre, and that last transformation is about to begin.

Gene VanVoorhis snapped some final pictures before the Eastman closes for renovations.

He remembers coming to .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=149Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-149
The design of a proposed addition to the Wheeler Opera House continues to evolve, although some say the most recent changes don't go far enough.

Project architects recently altered the four story addition to the circa-1890s historic theater by pulling the fourth .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=148Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-148
Construction of the Jefferson Performing Arts Center in Metairie is growing increasingly complicated and costly, leading the Parish Council to approve another $5.9 million in expenses.

It is the fifth change order since construction began more than two years ago and raises the total .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=150Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-150
Diller Scofidio + Renfro and FXFOWLE give a bravura performance with the expansion and renovation of New York's Alice Tully Hall.

Pietro Belluschi would probably roll over in his grave if he could see Alice Tully Hall today. But not necessarily with good cause. .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=147Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-147
The proposal for an estimated $30 million remodel and expansion of Aspen's Wheeler Opera House recently debuted before local government boards, which are reviewing the plans and will ultimately determine the building's size.

It's anticipated that Aspen residents will vote on the project in .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=144Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-144
For years, they were a small group with a big plan - to build an interdisciplinary arts center at Brown University that would blur the boundaries separating traditional art forms while fostering collaboration among actors, artists, writers and musicians.

Now, that vision is .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=141Sun, 31 May 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-141
Was this a concert hall I saw before me? The immediate response to the distribution on Thursday of images of a new music palace on the northeast corner of Place des Arts was, necessarily, a Shakespearean reflection on illusion and reality.

We have .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=142Sat, 30 May 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-142
The long-awaited Montreal Symphony Orchestra concert hall took on a new hue of reality Thursday as Premier Jean Charest and other dignitaries unveiled drawings of the sleek window-clad structure planned for the corner of St. Urbain St. and de Maisonneuve Blvd.

"Mission accomplished," .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=139Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-139
Montreal's new symphony concert hall will be a private-public partnership under a $266-million agreement signed Thursday.

Premier Jean Charest unveiled the design, created by architects Diamond + Schmitt, at a ceremony on the site in downtown Montreal.

Charest defended the decision to .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=143Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-143
The Gaillard Municipal Auditorium, Charleston's largest performance venue and an essential stage for local arts groups and Spoleto Festival USA, will undergo extensive renovations beginning as early as 2011 if enough money can be raised to pay the hefty price tag.

The project likely .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=137Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-137
To the odd duet of a bell's chime and a tractor's rumble, construction for the Smith Center for the Performing Arts was christened at a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday on the site at Bonneville Avenue and Grand Central Parkway.

"This is being built to .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=138Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-138
When Lincoln Center kicks off its 50th anniversary festivities on Monday with performances by the likes of Itzhak Perlman and Wynton Marsalis, it will, in a way, be celebrating the future more than commemorating the past.

The event, after all, will be taking .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=140Mon, 11 May 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-140
After entertaining patrons for more than 30 years, the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts embarks on a renovation in three acts to spruce up its theater and lobby.

The landmark Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts is getting an encore.

So .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=131Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-131
New York City will soon have its first LEED-rated Broadway theater.

The Durst Organization and Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) yesterday announced the completion of Henry Miller's Theatre on West 43rd Street in Times Square. The 1,055-seat house is located inside the new 55.... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=133Tue, 05 May 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-133
Lou Spisto, Executive Producer of the Tony Award&reg;-winning Old Globe, is pleased to announce the grand opening gala for the new Conrad Prebys Theatre Center on December 7, 2009. The evening will include a special performance by South Pacific stars, Kelli O'Hara and Paulo .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=135Tue, 05 May 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-135
Henry Miller's Theater, the first newly built Broadway house in more than 20 years - and the first so-called green theater on the Great White Way - has completed major construction and is set to open in September with Roundabout Theater Company's revival of the musical ".... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=128Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-128
The Durst Organization and Bank of America have announced the completion of Henry Miller's Theatre on West 43rd Street in Times Square. The 1,055-seat house is located inside the new 55-story Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park and will be New York's first .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=130Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-130
Last year we broke the top secret news that Broadway was belting their asses off to help green up the theater scene!

Proving that it wasn't just talk, last Friday it was announced that The Durst Organization and Bank of America have  .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=134Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-134
After months of talk, it's official: The Roundabout Theater Company has sealed the deal with Gotham real estate company the Durst Organization and Bank of America to program the new incarnation of Henry Miller's Theater, which will open in the fall with the Roundabout's upcoming .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=127Sun, 03 May 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-127
Roundabout Theatre Company has been officially announced as the producer at Broadway's newest theatre, Henry Miller's Theatre, the construction of which has been completed, the developers announced May 3.

The 1,055-seat house on West 43rd Street is located inside the new 55-story Bank of .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=129Sun, 03 May 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-129
Alice Tully Hall gets an audio makeover

Lincoln Center is an undergoing an ambitious, expansive  renovation that will transform it into a visually striking  arts center for the new millennium. Not that it wasn't  noticeable before, but much .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=132Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-132
The renovation of Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, designed by architectural firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro, arrived as a pleasant reward to New Yorkers after a long, difficult winter.
Located next to the Juilliard School of Music, a block north of the main Lincoln Center .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=146Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-146
A park runs like a magic carpet across the top of three 56-story towers in the Marina Bay Sands project in Singapore.

Architect Moshe Safdie, 70, designed the towers to backdrop a soaring art and science museum in the shape of an unfurling blossom. <.... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=123Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-123
Digging a basement and encountering water underground was not the biggest hurdle that the architect, Randy M. Correll, faced during the reconstruction of the John Drew Theater at Guild Hall here. The biggest challenge of the two-year project, said Mr. Correll, was bringing the technology .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=145Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-145
When I first learned that, as part of Lincoln Center's campus-wide revamp, Alice Tully Hall would undergo not just an 18-month renovation but an acoustical overhaul, my first reaction was, "why?" Of all the theaters in the Lincoln Center complex, I had always found Tully .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=124Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-124
A conceptual design for a dramatic addition to the Wheeler Opera House was presented recently to Aspen's Historic Preservation Commission and Planning and Zoning Commission.

"This [addition] will effectively make the Wheeler a performing arts center," said Michael Farewell, of Farewell Mills Gatsch .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=121Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-121
The city of Burlington has broken ground on a $26.8 million green performing arts centre, reportedly the largest capital construction project in its history.

Designed by Diamond + Schmitt Architects Inc., the centre will include a 730-seat main stage theatre, a 225-seat studio theatre, atrium .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=126Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-126
When Guild Hall opened its doors in 1931, it was the crown jewel of art and culture in East Hampton. Through the years, the facility's prestige grew as did its collection of work by renowned artists of the East End. Guild Hall also developed a reputation .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=125Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-125
It's safe to say that a lot of people are very happy that Guild Hall in East Hampton has, at long last, completed the bulk of a top to bottom renovation and makeover that began as a gleam in the eyes of the museum and .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=120Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-120
Within 90 days, this city founded on risk-taking is supposed to break ground on one of its biggest cultural gambles to date: the $475 million Smith Center for the Performing Arts.

The project is taking place at a challenging time for Las Vegas' biggest cultural .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=122Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-122
Diller Scofidio + Renfro are rebels with a cause and they have brought that to their first mainstream project, the transformation of the Lincoln Center

'We did apply to be considered for the new United States embassy in London,' says Ricardo Scofidio lugubriously, .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=118Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-118
Jules Fisher, the Tony-Award winning lighting designer and 2009 recipient of the Distinguished Achievement Award in Lighting Design from the United States Institute of Theatre Technology (USITT), is the subject of a new monograph published by USITT. The Designs of Jules Fisher by Delbert Unruh is .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=119Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-119
Grimshaw-designed amphitheater to become latest Coney Island icon

It has been rough sailing out at Coney Island of late, with the destruction of Astroland last winter and simmering tensions about the city's rezoning proposal. But good news has started to trickle in this .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=117Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-117
What makes a great concert hall isn't simply a matter of acoustics. Unpredictable variables come into play: the facade, the decor, the buzz of the crowd, the smile of a familiar usher, your memories of past concerts, your entire inner world as it stands at .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=113Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-113
It is hard to imagine New York's Upper West Side as a slum of flophouses and run-down tenements, tough to envisage the site of the Metropolitan Opera as a centre of urban blight. Yet that is what it had become in the late 1950s when .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=116Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-116
At a time when the moneyed life in New York feels as if it is being sucked into the sewers, the reopening of Alice Tully Hall, the chamber music venue at Lincoln Center, feels like an eddy in the stream.

After the hall .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=115Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-115
In its every point of contact with the public these days, classical music wants to be more solicitous than ever, and with an impressive stretch of glass flaunting enormous vitality inside, the new Alice Tully Hall has arrived at 65th and Broadway as one glamorous .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=114Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-114
Twenty-five million dollars, and all anyone will notice is the new chairs.

That's the joke Ford's Theatre Director Paul Tetreault tells while leading a tour of the historic site and working theater, which has just reopened after an extensive (and expensive) 18-month renovation. .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=92Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-92
The rejuvenated Alice Tully Hall has now been open for just over a week, and musicians of various persuasions have been testing its responses during the inaugural festival. It has proved welcoming and remarkably elastic.

We heard the tenor Mark Padmore and pianist .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=111Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-111
Normally, New Yorkers never agree on anything.  But everyone seems to think the new and improved Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center's super-sized "chamber music" venue, is swell.

Hearing two programs with relatively large forces over the weekend - a bizarre new Russian .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=112Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-112
If you drop by the new Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts, which celebrates its gala opening tonight with a program featuring Louise Pitre, I can guarantee one thing: You won't mind staying after school.

Not only is this bright and beautiful .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=109Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-109
An icon of New York City's cultural scene, the 1,100-seat Alice Tully Hall is a cornerstone of Manhattan's major performing arts complex. Built in 1969, its recent renovation is part of a large-scale rethinking of the entire Lincoln Center campus, with the design work led by .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=108Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-108
The rapid transformation of a small town into a big town often means, paradoxically, that its downtown goes to hell. Richmond Hill, which now counts 185,000 souls, follows the trend: a grand yellow-brick United Church, built in 1881, graces Yonge Street in the town's heart, flanked on .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=110Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-110
I have returned from New York marvelling, not for the first time, at the bouncebackability (as they say in sporting circles) of this pulsing city. Ancient tribes believed that they could harness colossal powers by building monuments on ley lines, along which the Earth's energy .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=104Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-104
After being closed for an 18-month, multimillion-dollar renovation, the historic Ford's Theatre in Washington reopened to the public Feb. 3, the week before the 200th anniversary of President Lincoln's birth.

Lincoln attended many performances at Ford's Theatre, but it was the last show he .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=107Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-107
"To wake the soul by tender strokes of art," reads the inscription inside the lid of the old harpsichord of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. The gorgeous instrument had been AWOL for nearly two years as the Chamber Music Society's Alice Tully Hall .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=103Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-103
About a month ago, running late, I ducked into Pain Quotidien on 65th Street for a quick bite before the opera. When I emerged, looking toward Lincoln Center, I felt like one of the citizens of Fellini's "Amarcord," gazing in wonder at the lights of .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=101Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-101
I don't think I've ever seen an ovation for a wall, but I did on Sunday night.

The pleasing, warm glow of the walls of the Lincoln Center's rebuilt and "reimagined" Alice Tully Hall got a spontaneous round of applause before the music .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=102Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-102
Finally, after what feels like endless years of planning, fund-raising, wish lists and sometimes contentious debates among the constituent institutions of Lincoln Center over the scope and timing of the renovation and redevelopment of the 16-acre campus, the first tangible results of the formidable project .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=100Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-100
New York City's Lincoln Center is one of America's premier performing-arts venues, but these days, it's just one big construction site. The 45-year-old campus is undergoing a $1.2 billion renovation to make it more modern and pedestrian-friendly. Sunday, the first part of the project is being .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=106Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-106
When Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts was first proposed, in the mid-1950s, it was imagined as a sort of island of culture in the midst of Manhattan - a symphony hall, an opera house, a theater and a stage for ballet, all standing .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=105Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-105
In the old days, attending a concert in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center required a certain determination. The sign was easy to miss, but you could recognize the place by the clutch of smokers perched on the planters out front-nobody else would linger in .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=99Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-99
In pursuit of his homages to Abraham Lincoln, President Barack Obama's expected appearance at Ford's Theatre tonight may strike some as, well, dramatic.

The actor James Earl Jones and CBS news anchor Katie Couric are among the celebrities appearing at a celebration of .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=94Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-94
After $360 million of renovations, the gloomy fortress housing Alice Tully Hall and the Juilliard School in New York have gained light and sparkle.

A three-story wall of sheer glass will reveal the pre- concert hubbub in the lobby at Tully, a 1,087-seat recital .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=91Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-91
The Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) was nearly a decade in the making. In 1999, as part of a strategic plan for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), the university earmarked a "transformational" project for its campus in Troy, New York. A year later, RPI obtained .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=93Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-93
Alice Tully Hall, and the Juilliard School complex of which it is a part, were the last elements of Lincoln Center to be built, and when they opened, in 1969, they seemed like an ambitious attempt to bring cutting-edge brutalism to the place. That's probably why .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=74Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-74
Acoustics get a staring role in the design of a new performing arts center

Acoustic surface treatments and baffles may work to improve the quality of sound transmission in ordinary spaces, but to create world-class performance venues where the need for pristine acoustics .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=86Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-86
For Westside residents in Los Angeles, the Eli and Edythe Broad Stage in Santa Monica offers a welcome alternative to fighting traffic en route to a downtown theater. Owned by Santa Monica College but serving both school and community audiences, the theater complex juggles a .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=87Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-87
When the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute opened on October 3, its theatre, concert hall and two studios were ready for action with automated rigging from J. R. Clancy, Inc. They have also received a patent for their SureGrip rope .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=88Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-88
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY is the country's oldest technological university with one of the first undergraduate programs in electronic media and arts in the United States, so it isn't surprising that their recently opened $200 million facility, the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=89Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-89
I have long been an admirer of the theatrical and architectural drawings of the great renaissance family, Bibiena.

In 1972, my brother Roy identified a workshop portfolio of 157 drawings used by the family as a kind of "catalogue" to illustrate their capabilties to their .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=84Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-84
It was playtime in the nice new sandbox.

A Preview of the New Alice Tully Hall With giddiness and glee, musicians tested the acoustics of the newly renovated Alice Tully Hall on Tuesday, less than a month before it reopens after a $159 million, 22.... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=82Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-82
Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute's neck-breakingly massive EMPAC building looms out of the November mist like the gleaming, glass-walled craft of some far-flung future planet. Visible through the imposing edifice's high windows is the curvaceous, wood-skinned hull of the 1,200-seat concert hall.

Inside the 220,000-square-foot, $200 .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=98Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-98
Nothing in the city says "performing arts" with quite the same gusto as the 16-acre urban mall that is Lincoln Center, combining 12 different organizations including the Julliard School, the Lincoln Center Theater and the School of American Ballet. After four decades of use, however, the .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=76Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-76

Working with a diverse cast of engineers, acousticians, and technical consultants, Grimshaw Architects transformed an inhospitable hillside into a state-of-the-art performance center.

"Huuuuuuwt!" A 59-year-old man is yelling from somewhere inside Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's (RPI) glossy new performing-arts .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=85Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-85
For the past 22 months, construction workers have replaced musicians at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, as one of New York's busiest concert venues underwent a much needed transformation designed by architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with FXFOWLE Architects. But now the finishing touches are .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=71Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-71
The renovation of the historic Ford's Theatre is on budget and on schedule as upgraded seating is installed and the final touches are applied on new features, according to theatre officials.

Theatre officials admit the old formal chairs for audience seating were not .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=72Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-72
When the more glassy and user-friendly Alice Tully Hall reopens at Lincoln Center in February, among the major changes to the 1,087-seat performance venue will be a completely revamped interior with custom-made seats and a mechanized stage extension, among other bells and whistles. Progress on .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=70Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-70
If, with its recession, 2009 is the year we already hope to forget, then 2008 will be one to bundle up and hold tight. It could well mark a halt to the construction of innovative new eye-catching buildings, at least for a while.

So as .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=69Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-69
So what can I tell you about the Diller, Scofidio + Renfro refashioning of Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center? It's still a construction site - the official re-opening isn't until February - but I previewed some substantially completed portions last week with Liz Diller and .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=68Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-68
Hopes are high that the $485 million Smith Center for the Performing Arts will transform Las Vegas' cultural legacy

One cool joint.

As descriptions of performing arts centers go, that may lack a certain dignity. But in a city where .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=66Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-66
Announcing a year's worth of events to celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2009, Lincoln Center president Reynold Levy admitted that the 16-acre arts complex doesn't give up its treasures easily. "For 50 years," he said, "visitors to Lincoln Center have been rewarded for traversing eleven lanes of .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=67Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-67
Critics of the Museum of Arts and Design missed the real point of the building.

When the new Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) opened in New York at the end of September, the critics descended on .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=64Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-64
Lights -- check.

Sound -- testing, one-two. One-two -- check.

The curtain is about to rise at Miramar Cultural Center, but while Sunday's Caribefest Jazz Gala concert at the impressive 800-seat full-service theater marks the first official staged event, it was .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=63Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-63
A center for artists, scientists, and engineers to come together to pursue discovery at the nexus of the real and virtual worlds.
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During the first weeks in October, those of us obtaining tickets to the often sold-out performances heralding the opening bash of the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., were treated to glimpses of what the future for .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=62Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-62
Guild Hall's John Drew Theater, located at 158 Main Street in East Hampton Village, won't reopen until Spring 2009 due to problems with the building's electrical system. The theater will have to cancel much of its Winter Solstice Programs scheduled for the original Dec. 1 opening.

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FDA is pleased to announce the launch of our new, improved website.
 
Among the changes you will find is a feature that helps you peruse and download project data sheets.  Architects and other consultants preparing submittals can compile their .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=60Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-60

"A theater is a strange animal of a building," says Jennifer Mallard of Diamond + Schmitt Architects. While theaters always pose technical hurdles, in the case of the newly completed Sidney Harman Hall in Washington, D.C., there were unusual constraints and challenges, says Mallard, .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=65Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-65
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute celebrated the opening of its new 220,000-sq.-ft. LEED Silver-certified Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) this month. Designed and completed by a team of several specialists that included Grimshaw Architects in New York City, Davis Brody Bond Aedas in New .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=53Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-53
Joshua Dachs is pleased to announce the addition of Micah Rahn to the FDA staff.

Micah comes to FDA with over 10 years of lighting system and technical theatre experience.  He brings with him expertise in entertainment and architectural control systems, dimming systems, .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=49Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-49
Renzo Zecchetto's Eli and Edythe Broad Stage at Santa Monica College appears unresolved. And that's fine.

The New Eli and Edythe Broad Stage at Santa Monica College, which will open officially tonight with a program featuring the mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade, is a .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=50Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-50
The concert hall of the 21st century has arrived. And the building that encases it would be remarkable if it had only that.

The 1,200-seat hall in the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute here (Empac, .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=48Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-48
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is unveiling a new media and arts facility that features cutting-edge technology, a project that took $200 million and almost eight years to complete.

The Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center officially opens Friday, kicking off a three-week celebration that includes .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=47Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-47
TROY, N.Y.- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is unveiling a new cutting-edge media and arts facility today, the Associated Press reports. The Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), which cost $200 million and took almost eight years to complete, has been designed to bring art .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=56Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-56
A massive new arts building on the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will open Friday and kick off three weekends of free activities for the community.

But for most of the year, the $200 million Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center "will not be .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=44Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-44

Just where is the intersection of art and science? To most of us, it's as small and instant a thing as snapping a shot with a digital camera or pressing down middle C on an electronic keyboard. Yet "At the Intersection of Art and .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=57Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-57
"Open up your mind. Open up your senses," says Johannes Goebel. "You've got to be open to new things."

As director of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Goebel promises plenty of "new things" are headed our way when the .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=42Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-42
Technological adaptability creates ideal performance and research spaces

The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will soon open the doors to its &euro; 131 million Experimental Media and Arts Center (EMPAC) conceived by Grimshaw Architects.

Located .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=41Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-41
Barbara Cook gives a superb concert at the Santa Monica theater, more a preview than a tryout for the venue.

The Broad Stage, the latest addition to the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center, put out the welcome mat Saturday night. The handsome, .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=45Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-45
Sisyphus had it easy. Or so it often seemed to the individuals who spent the last decade bringing to fruition Santa Monica College's new performing arts center.

The king of Corinth was merely doomed to forever push a boulder up a mountain, only .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=43Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-43
After 10 years of consulting with internationally lauded performing artists and administrators on their vision of a "dream venue," The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage opens with two sold-out concerts.  Broadway Legend Barbara Cook inaugurates the performing arts center in a program featuring songs composed .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=75Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-75
Describing it as a "front porch" for Lincoln Center, the architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien have redesigned Harmony Atrium between West 62nd and 63rd Streets as a "theatrical garden" featuring 20-foot-high walls of plants and rods of falling water.

The goal .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=37Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-37
Following two days of public presentations from six architectural candidates, the City and County of Denver's Division of Theatres and Arenas and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra (CSO) announced today that the Boettcher Concert Hall Architect Selection Committee chose Diamond and Schmitt Architects and their local .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=73Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-73
Located on the shores of Lady Bird Lake with enticing views of the Austin, TX skyline, the new Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Center For Performing Arts incorporates materials from an older building that was partially demolished - the outdated Palmer Auditorium built in 1959 .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=36Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-36
A new center for the College of Creative Arts will ensure SF State's place as a hub of creativity for the future. Now it's Michael Maltzan Architecture's job to decide how that future will look.

Maltzan's firm has been selected to design the .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=8Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-8
Our present times nuzzle the architectural past in the Long Center for the Performing Arts.

Sure, the civic center, which opened in March, is the newest major mark on Austin's cityscape. But the $77 million, two-theater venue also delightfully whispers its history while simultaneously .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=38Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-38

Teresa Petersen joined Fisher Dachs Associates, Inc. in November 2005. Most recently Technical Director at the University of California-Davis Theatre Department, she brings added skill in rigging systems design and drafting to the Rigging Department.

She has eight years of experience in technical .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=19Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-19
County leaders are touting a planned multimillion-dollar public arts palace-- and it's not the one you're thinking of.

This is a story about Miami-Dade County's fancy new performing arts center. Not that one. The other performing arts .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=18Mon, 28 Nov 2005 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-18
Tucked into a narrow ravine above the Pacific Coast Highway, the Getty Villa, a faux-Roman retreat brimming with real Greco-Roman antiquities, has always drawn strong reactions. Built in the 1970's by an eccentric mogul, it was derided by aesthetes as a vulgar display of personal .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=20Sun, 20 Nov 2005 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-20
One year after garnering glowing reviews for the William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum in Little Rock, Ark., Polshek Partnership Architects has a classy new concert hall complex in downtown Omaha.

As with the Clinton library, the Holland Performing Arts Center is an .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=17Sat, 19 Nov 2005 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-17
When audiences crowd into Avery Fisher Hall this Thursday for the opening of Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, they won't be looking at what Josh Dachs calls "a picture frame at the end of a long room." For the 39th annual festival, Mr. Dachs's theater-design .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=21Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-21

With the January re-opening of Hill Auditorium at The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, loyal audiences and concert-goers will experience comfort and opulence like never before.

The design team for the $38.6 million renovation of the 1913 building .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=25Mon, 12 Jan 2004 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-25

The Honorable Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D., President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, today unveiled plans for the university's new Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, eMPAC. Located on the campus of a distinguished technological research university, yet reaching out to an international artistic community, .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=24Mon, 17 Nov 2003 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-24
The Omaha Performing Arts Society broke ground in April for its new $90 million Performing Arts Center. The new building, expected to open in the fall of 2005, will be a multifunction performing arts venue featuring a 2,000 seat concert hall, a 450-seat chamber music hall, .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=26Thu, 01 May 2003 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-26
''Feel-ology.''

That's the word playfully coined by theater consultant Joshua Dachs to describe the still-nameless science of how a performing arts venue ''feels.''

Tongue firmly in cheek, he mentions other options.

Paying tribute to Thespis, believed to .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=55Sat, 12 Apr 2003 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-55
Joshua Dachs is pleased to announce the addition of Jon Sivell to the FDA staff. Jon brings a unique understanding of the theatre building and its operations thanks to his experience in both theatre production and performing arts administration. Jon is designing lighting systems for .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=28Sat, 01 Feb 2003 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-28
New York, NY

Fisher Dachs Associates has announced the addition of theatre consultant Alec Stoll to its consulting team.

With 15 years of nationwide backstage experience as a technical director, stage manager and lighting designer, and three years as a professional theatre .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=31Thu, 27 Jun 2002 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-31
Joshua Dachs, principal of Fisher Dachs Associates, Inc., will speak at the "Theatre Engineering and Architecture 2002" conference, being held in London, England June 16-18.

Presented in the Strand Palace Hotel in London's Theatreland, the conference will bring together theatre technicians, architects, consultants, scenographers, .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=30Tue, 21 May 2002 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-30
For more than seven decades, The Bushnell, Connecticut's premier non-profit presenter of the performing arts, has played a leading role in the state's cultural life. New York City-based theater consultants, Fisher Dachs Associates worked in collaboration with Boston architects Wilson Butler Lodge and Connecticut-based acousticians, .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=32Wed, 21 Nov 2001 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-32
Fisher Dachs Associates Theatre Consultants Make it Happen at the Oklahoma City Civic Center Music Hall

When the Civic Center Music Hall reopens in September 2001, its centerpiece will be an entirely new 2,500 seat theatre. The theatre has been built within the .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=7Sat, 01 Sep 2001 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-7
Fisher Dachs Associates, one of the world's leading theatre planning and design consultants, is proud to announce that Adam Huggard has won the Connecticut Critics Circle Award. At the 11th Annual Awards Presentation held recently in Southern Connecticut State University, Huggard was honored with the .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=6Wed, 01 Aug 2001 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-6
Standing on the site where Houston's Music Hall and Collliseum once stood, the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts is an $88 million complex that completes Houston's Theater District.

Funded by both public and private support, the new Center, which opened in May, 2002, is .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=29Fri, 01 Jun 2001 00:00:00 PDTirnwsid-29
NEW YORK THEATRE DESIGN FIRM WINS
RESTORATION OF HARLEM'S
LEGENDARY APOLLO THEATRE

Fisher Dachs Associates, award-winning theatre design firm, has been awarded the opportunity to restore the historic Apollo Theatre in New York City. Jules Fisher/Joshua Dachs Associates, Inc. (FDA) .... read more]]>http://fda-online.com/news_detail.php?id=33Mon, 01 Jan 2001 00:00:00 PSTirnwsid-33
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