These are not banner times for symphony orchestras. Audiences are aging, budgets are shrinking, and the scramble for funding gets harder by the minute. More...
It seats 1,500 people, but about twice that many turned out Sunday night to witness
the grand opening of the new Sun Valley Pavilion, a state-of-the-art concert
amphitheater that will serve as the permanent home of the Sun Valley Summer
Symphony. More...
Housed in downtown Los Angeles at the Music Center, the Center Theatre Group’s Mark Taper Forum recently completed a yearlong, $30 million interior renovation. The 41-year-old theater will reopen to the public with production previews on August 30, and its first production will open on September 14. More...
After a decade of planning and construction, Austin's new Long Center for the Performing Arts icked off officially on March 28 with a gala featuring the Austin Symphony Orchestra, Austin Lyric Opera, and Ballet Austin in the center's 2,425 seat Dell Hall. More...
The longtime dream of bringing a state of the art performance facility to West Texas inched closer to actualization Wednesday when conceptual designs for the Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center were revealed. More...
On schedule and on budget, the Kaufman Center, home to the popular Merkin Concert Hall, opened its doors on Tuesday night with a gala reception and concert after an eight-month, $17 million renovation. On Monday night anyone passing the center, on 67th Street just west of Broadway, might have wondered how on earth the place was going to be ready to go in 24 hours. More...
The 450-seat Merkin Concert Hall in Manhattan's Kaufman Center recently underwent a multi-million dollar overhaul of seating, lighting, rigging, and sound reinforcement as part of the Kaufman Center's $17 million renovation. More...
It's a good thing for the founders of the new Museum at Bethel Woods that Generation Woodstock has an insatiable hunger to relive those three magical days over and over again. More...
For the nearly half-million revelers at the 1969 Woodstock Music & Arts Fair—and the many more who either wish they'd been there or have convinced themselves over the
decades that they actually were on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, for those three
days in August— Woodstock was the most vivid proof possible of a larger dynamic at work. More...
First come the oohs and aahs and the eyes glancing every which way as they take in three
floors of renovations to the historic Sarasota Opera House. More...
New York City's majestic Temple EmmanuEl boasts a membership of 3,000 families. The 78-year-old building recently experienced a major facelift, including a new, architecturally unobtrusive sound system designed by JaffeHolden. More...
For 80 years, Bloomington, Illinois' Scottish Rite Temple was the center of Bloomington-Normal's artistic and social life, housing a 1320-seat theater with the largest stage west of New York and a ballroom that could seat 1000. JaffeHolden provided a new sound reinforcement system and an acoustic enhancement system for non-amplified sound was key to the revitalization of this landmark performing arts venue. More...
Global Positioning
Like most recently built performance venues,the Carol Bush
Enemy Performance Hall in the Globe-News Center for the Performing
Arts (Amarillo, TX) is a multi-purpose hall. More...
