Modern Theatres 1950–2020

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Modern Theatres 1950–2020 is an investigation of theatres, concert halls and opera houses in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North and South America. The book explores in detail 30 of the most significant theatres, concert halls, opera houses and dance spaces that opened between 1950 and 2010. Each theatre is reviewed and assessed by experts in theatre buildings, such as architects, acousticians, consultants and theatre practitioners, and illustrated with full-colour photographs and comparative plans and sections. A further 20 theatres that opened from 2009 to 2020 are concisely reviewed and illustrated. An excellent resource for students of theatre planning, theatre architecture and architectural design, Modern Theatres 1950 – 2020 discusses the role of performing arts buildings in cities, explores their public and performances spaces and examines the acoustics and technologies needed in a great building. This beautifully illustrated book is also a must-read for architects, theater designers, theatre historians, and theatre practitioners. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Contents Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1.00 Aspects of Modern Theatres 1.00 Introduction 1.01 Edwin O. Sachs: A British Theatrical Enigma 1.02 Cities, Global and Regenerating 1.03 Theatres and Publicness 1.04 Prevailing Themes in 20th-Century Theatre Architecture 1.05 Towards a New Theatre Architecture: Developments in Britain after 1950 1.06 Front of House Moves to the Forefront 1.07 Concert Halls, Music, and Audiences 1.08 The Modern Opera House 1.09 Playhouses and Spaces for Drama 1.10 Stage Engineering Systems 1.11 Stage Lighting 1.12 Sound, and Opera’s Dirty Little Secret 1.13 New Technologies and Performance 1.14 Acoustics and the Modern Theatre Part 2.00 Thirty Significant Theatres 1950–2010 2.00 Introduction The Fifties 3.01 Royal Festival Hall, 1951, London, UK 3.02 Festival Theatre, 1957, Stratford, Ontario, Canada 3.03 Kalita Humphreys Theater, 1959, Dallas, Texas, USA 3.04 Musiktheater im Revier, 1959, Gelsenkirchen, Germany The Sixties 4.01 Arena Stage, 1961, Washington, DC, USA 4.02 Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, 1961, Tokyo, Japan 4.03 Philharmonie Berlin, 1963, Berlin, Germany The Seventies 5.01 Finlandia Hall, 1971, Helsinki, Finland 5.02 Sydney Opera House, 1973, Sydney, Australia 5.03 Teatro Regio Torino, 1973, Torino, Italy 5.04 National Theatre, 1976, London, UK 5.05 Royal Exchange Theatre, 1976, Manchester, UK The Eighties 6.01 Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, 1981, Berlin, Germany 6.02 Arts Centre Melbourne, 1982, Melbourne, Australia 6.03 Joyce Theater, 1982, New York, USA 6.04 Derngate, 1983, Northampton, UK 6.05 Lucent Danstheater, 1987, The Hague, Netherlands 6.06 Opéra Bastille, 1989, Paris, France The Nineties 7.01 Sadler’s Wells Theatre, 1998, London, UK The New Millennium 8.01 The Lowry, 2000, Salford, UK 8.02 Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, 2002, Singapore 8.03 Walt Disney Concert Hall, 2003, Los Angeles, California, USA 8.04 KÀ Theatre, 2004, MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas, NV, USA 8.05 Matsumoto Performing Arts Centre, 2004, Matsumoto, Japan 8.06 Casa da Música, 2005, Porto, Portugal 8.07 Auditório Ibirapuera ‘Oscar Niemeyer’, 2005, São Paulo, Brazil 8.08 National Centre for the Performing Arts, 2007, Beijing, China 8.09 Operahuset, 2008, Oslo, Norway 8.10 National Opera House, 2008, Wexford, Ireland 8.11 Guangzhou Opera House, 2010, Guangzhou, China Part 3.00 Snapshots of Twenty Recent Theatres 2009–2020 9.00 Introduction 9.01 Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, 2009, Dallas, Texas, USA 9.02 Onassis Cultural Center, 2010, Athens, Greece 9.03 New World Center, 2011, Miami, Florida, USA 9.04 Royal Opera House, 2011, Muscat, Oman 9.05 Harpa, 2011, Reykjavik, Iceland 9.06 Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 2011, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK 9.07 Heydar Aliyev Center, 2012, Baku, Azerbaijan 9.08 ‘A’ali’iku¯honua Creative Arts Center, 2012, Seabury Hall, Makawao, Hawaii, USA 9.09 Musiktheater am Volksgarten, 2013, Linz, Austria 9.10 Everyman Theatre, 2014, Liverpool, UK 9.11 Han Show Theatre, 2014, Wuhan, China 9.12 Harbin Opera House, 2015, Harbin, China 9.13 Dubai Opera, 2016, Dubai, UAE 9.14 Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, 2017, Athens, Greece 9.15 Boulez Saal, 2017, Berlin, Germany 9.16 Elbphilharmonie, 2017, Hamburg, Germany 9.17 Bridge Theatre, 2017, London, UK 9.18 National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts, 2018, Taipei, Taiwan 9.19 The Shed, The Bloomberg Building, 2019, New York, USA 9.20 Xiqu Centre, 2019, Hong Kong 10.00 Conclusions 10.01 Postscript – “The Ghost Light” Contributors Photo Credits Index