These days many concert promoters, ticket brokers, ticket-resale Web sites and even major performance spaces are in favor of preserving an unfettered free market for reselling tickets, and their allies in the legislature have beaten back attempts to limit the profits.
The foundation is a major source of money for choreographers and dance companies in New York and was named after the philanthropic couple Robert Gilmore and Joyce Mertz Joycece, as in the Joyce Theater, a major dance performance space.
New places to eat and drink, such as Felixpakhuis and Lux, have a new following, the Royal Ballet of Flanders (koninklijkballetvanvlaanderen.be) has moved to a new performance space, and a major, modernist new museum, Museum aan de Stroom (mas.be), opens its doors next May, telling the story of Antwerp as a world port city.
Madison, with the shift to a 130 nm process, allowed for enough cache space to overcome the major performance bottlenecks.
DZ Deathrays were the first major act to take to the Amphitheatre, the festival's largest performance space.
As for the main performance space at the Hippodrome, which opened a decade ago after a major renovation project, Legler found much to savor as well.
At a time when many major adventurous theater companies have either lost their space (St. Ann's Warehouse) or are temporarily homeless (Performance Space 122), Ms. Yoo has a very precious asset: downtown real estate.
Upstairs, on the office mezzanine, he checked on a proposal for an outdoor performance space and meeting place at Bard College, which, if it is built, will be his first major permanent work in the United States.
Less than a week before opening night, Mr. James decided to make a major change, transposing an earlier scene, in which two women run and tumble horizontally across a curtain surrounding the performance space, toward the end of the show.
