Plans called for 3 major auditoriums: an opera house, a concert hall and a legitimate threatre.
Mr. Dunn had previously had a significant career as a choral and orchestral conductor in New York, appearing at Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, Avery Fisher Hall and other major auditoriums.
The renovation, which started last July, is the first major overhaul since the auditorium's construction in 1910.
Workmen are putting the finishing touches on a major renovation of the auditorium in the Society for Ethical Culture's building at 2 West 64th Street.
The actors who want your mobile phone to go off in the auditorium Frock show: Major Laura Ashley retrospective to open at Bath Fashion Museum @AlicevJones.
A major redesign of the State Theater auditorium to improve the acoustics is on the table, though the project could easily be derailed by the sheer expense involved, which could exceed $30 million for the State Theater alone.
At Hammersmith, artistic director Sean Holmes took advantage of a major rebuild surrounding the unaffected auditorium to instigate a "Secret Theatre" season of new work and classics (including a deliberately antiseptic, un-American A Streetcar Named Desire led by disabled actress Nadia Albina as Blanche du Bois) with a company of 20 actors.
I nominate Chicago's Auditorium Theater as a major cultural destination through 2015 and invite the world to come and experience many world-class performances in my city by the lake.
The Majors were going to skate at the Broadway Auditorium, where a 185-by-86-foot ice surface was to be installed.
The auditorium, however, is expected to be a major naming opportunity for a donor, along the lines of the $100 million gift Mr. Koch, the oil and gas billionaire, gave to what was called the New York State Theater, home to New York City Ballet.
