Eighteen months ago, Garson Brothers purchased two lots containing the theater and 7,000 square feet of retail space for $2.85 million.
It will contain a theater room, two community rooms, each with a fireplace and one with a kitchen, a fitness room, business center and library.
The Mead Center's huge glass-and-renewable-wood shell contains the theater company's two longtime stages, the Fichandler and the Kreeger, as well as a new one, the Kogod Cradle, and extensive space for rehearsal rooms, design shops, classrooms, and offices.
The Force may be strong, but can it contain a theater full of angry fans?
Among its amenities, the home counts a finished basement level containing a theater room, game room, weight room and a wet bar with custom lighting.
"We do ask that you have 'your sisters' well contained, as the theater is open to the public," Wynns wrote in the introduction letter she sent to participants a few weeks before the start of camp.
Containing three theaters and a cafe and bar, it is a spectacular shot in the arm for this worthy company, whose focus since its inception in 1991 has been celebrating the canon of American drama, usually with seasons devoted to the work of a single playwright.
A circular section contains two theaters and is connected to the tower by the 115 foot grey-glass pavilion.
He spoke passionately about his experience putting on short plays between stops on the F train, and said his dream was to create "a self-contained theater venue on wheels" like Joseph Papp, the founder of the Public Theater, who took Shakespeare to New York neighborhoods on the back of a flatbed truck.
Demonstrators said the factory contained only street-theater puppets and agitprop paraphernalia intended for nonviolent civil disobedience.
