At roughly the same time, a number of theatres designed to imitate Elizabethan theatres such as the indoor Maddermarket Theatre (1921) in Norwich, Eng., and the open-air Old Globe Theatre (1935) in San Diego, Calif. were built around the world, with more being constructed later in the century, including the Swan Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon, Eng.
Located in Tempe is Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium, a theatre designed by Wright that has a 2,900-pipe 2,900-pipe
Hogarth knew that a theatre designed "to prevent offence" was a sad thing, scarcely worth defending.
Last year the Riba Prize went to the Liverpool Everyman Theatre, designed by Haworth Tompkins, and the prize has won by practices including Zaha Hadid Architects, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and David Chipperfield Architects.
The casino itself contains a theatre designed by the 19th-century French architect Charles Garnier, which is the home of the Opéra de Monte Carlo.
More than the large events, though, it is the many chamber-music and song recitals around the city that often leave visitors with the most vivid memories.The Lucerne festival (August 15th-September 15th) is held in a new lakeside theatre designed by Jean Nouvel.
Is this all so much theatre, designed to give the appearance of security, while actually distracting attention and funding from other more useful ways of keeping bombs and bad people off planes?
On one level, the protests are a form of political theatre, designed to attract sympathetic attention to the cause of a free Tibet, but their more immediate aim is harder to pin down.
Anna Ledwich's stage direction similarly troubles the boundaries between fiction and reality by exploiting the possibilities offered by the temporary wooden theatre designed to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Chichester's Festival theatre.
Ivor Crewe lecture theatre, University of Essex, Colechester, 2008 The Prince of Wales was up to his old tricks again when he likened this brand new, steel-clad lecture theatre, designed by Patel Taylor, to "a dustbin on the outside".
The theatre, designed by Giovanni Battista Aleotti and built in 1618 (but not used until 1628, to celebrate the marriage of a Medici daughter to a Farnese son), was the first proscenium theatre to be designed for movable scenery and is the earliest large-scale indoor theatrical facility to have survived.
