The Bridge, in Los Angeles, is a widely acclaimed space-age theater where the movie itself is almost an afterthought; customers get cushy leather seats, reserved seating, live performances onstage before a film begins and an "elite services" desk akin to a concierge desk in a posh hotel.
The Bridge in Los Angeles is a widely acclaimed, space-age theater where the movie itself is almost an afterthought; customers get reserved seating in cushy leather seats, live performances onstage before a film begins and an "elite services" desk akin to a concierge desk in a posh hotel.
We made our way to the bedroom and Lisa threw on the black and white tale of an aging theater actress and her circle of friends.
Loews recently said it would close 112 aging theaters across the country.
On Monday, Loews reported a third-quarter net loss of $185.9 million and said it would close 112 aging theaters with 675 screens, nearly a quarter of the company's total screens.
Aging theaters are a problem on London's West End, where many of the famous venues were constructed before World War II. .
(During a dark age of theater preservation, they were removed to make room for the Broadway run of "The Rocky Horror Show" — which flopped).
Given the Mongol flair for visual histrionics, it is no surprise to learn than the Yuan era was a golden age for theater, with Dadu a 14th-century Broadway and Off Broadway rolled into one.
Museum exhibits will include a recreation of a Warsaw street from this golden age, a theater with a recreated performance, a virtual synagogue, and a recreation of the Warsaw ghetto itself.
In an age when theater is often pushed to the periphery, an entire city of artists and audiences talking, day and night, about almost nothing else is, well, quite a spectacle.
