Mr. Frank, speaking from Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., said that the theater would feature stadium seats with high backs, which, at 24 inches, would be wider than most theater chairs.
In the Lebanese Pavilion at the Biennale, it is part of an installation that includes a reel film projector, a single movie theater chair and a number of cylindrical stools.
Russian troops tie up their detainees and place them in small pits dug in the ground; Movsar Barayev made his hostages sit still in their theater chairs for hours.
It doesn't matter that, according to the Yonkers Historical Society, he leaped over theater chairs to reach the presidential box, administered mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and probed the bullet hole behind the president's left ear.
Then there are the conversation-minded fishermen who spend November and December sitting on theater chairs in the heated fishing shack at the Four Seasons Resort, owned by Bill and Sharon Davis, and dunking for crappies through a open well in the floor.
Take, for example, this home theater chair from Elite Home Theater seating.
Plenty crams me into a movie theater chair, turns on the headset, and suddenly I'm a small child, sitting in bed and screaming for my mom.
I also found myself thinking of Mary Soames, a theater lover, who chaired the Royal National Theatre's Board of Trustees from 1989 to 1995.
A Berkline Home Theater Series Chair with built-in ButtKicker is a touch-button recliner with a sub-woofer fitted under the seat that lets you feel that crunch on the field to make it seem like you're right there.
"Of course, critics dismissed this, but I thought 'Field, Chair and Mountain' was a totally brilliant piece, and I wish that Ballet Theater could revive it.
