Sentence examples for flexible theater from inspiring English sources

Called by some America's most flexible theater, it permitted proscenium and horseshoe as well as central staging.

"BAM needs a new, small, intimate, completely flexible theater that can respond to the art-making of the 21st century," said Joseph V. Melillo, the institution's executive producer.

Frederick Henry Koch Jr., a professor of drama at the University of Miami who is credited with creating the first fully flexible theater building in the round in the United States, died on Aug. 26 at his home in Miami.

The idea of the Salle Modulable — a flexible theater that would make it possible "to configure the performance areas," in the words of a concept statement — originated in discussions in 2003 between Mr. Haefliger and Mr. Boulez, who had long wanted such a resource in Paris.

Margo Whitcomb, the director, keeps the episodic play steadily in motion at the flexible Edith Bolte Kutz Theater, which has been configured into an intimate profile-style space where spectators sit on opposite sides of the playing area.

3. The high fixed costs of producing symphonic performances means that orchestras are less flexible than theater or dance ensembles.

The more options, the better, which is why the new BAM Fisher building at the Brooklyn Academy of Music was designed with a flexible 250-seat theater in which choreographers and others can do whatever they want, however they want.

As powerhouse corporations like Twitter and Zynga move into the mid-Market corridor, stimulating new transit lines, new restaurants, and new residential construction, the area is becoming an increasing hotbed for black box theaters (flexible venues often seating less than 100 people) where a great deal of experimental work takes place.

The director, Melissa Kievman, uses the Marion Huber Theater, a flexible 100-seat black-box space, for this production.

Mr. Ito conceived the design as part of a drawn-out public promenade, and he has packed the bookstore, a cafe, a gallery, a 256-seat theandr and a flexible "black box" onto the ground floor.

"The idea of a 299-seat theater with a totally flexible configuration, with this kind of height and dimensions and acoustics, hits a sweet spot for a lot of directors and artists," Ms. Levin said.