He admired the lead mullions on a set of interior windows by the library, scooped up a stool, paused to look through a cabinet stocked with mint-condition gas masks, and then paid a visit to the Times' auditorium, where the letters spelling out "Times" above the entrance had been pried from the wall.
At the time, the auditorium, perhaps with wooden benches, was set into the hillside, and the skene, or building serving as the background of the play, was built on the opposite side of the orchestra.
New York Theater Workshop has long been one of the city's more adventurous not-for-profit houses, and its raw-looking — but at the same time majestic — auditorium has hosted some of the best new work the city has seen during its tenure, from the musical "Rent" to new plays by Caryl Churchill and the experimental revivals of the Belgian director Ivo van Hove.
New York Theater Workshop has long been one of the city's more adventurous not-for-profit houses, and its raw-looking but at the same time majestic auditorium has hosted some of the best new work the city has seen during its tenure, from the musical "Rent" to new plays by Caryl Churchill and the experimental revivals of the Flemish director Ivo Van Hove.
It took us a while, however, to realise that most of the time, the auditorium was empty.
Mr. Ian Khama attended the signing on Monday, and at times the auditorium shook with the opposition's cries of "Khama, Khama, Khama".
It went nowhere, and stayed there hilariously, for some time.The packed auditorium, rippling with goodwill, loved it.
Where they are not, classes are merging or students are spending time in the auditorium doing work on the floor.
A Birthday Tribute New York without Carnegie Hall may seem unthinkable, but once upon a time this grand auditorium had to be saved from the wrecker's ball.
While Nadler was speaking, I remembered that I had spent a lot of time in this auditorium: in 1989, I had heard a debate about the future of the Communist Party; in 1991, I had watched a crowd of visiting Communists from Vietnam enjoy a dubbed version of Michael Douglas playing the greedy investment banker in "Wall Street".
