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Lincoln Center Theater to Open a New Stage
Lincoln Center Theater to Open a New Stage
By ROBIN POGREBIN
At a time when Broadway has grown increasingly costly, Lincoln Center Theater is opening a new stage on Tuesday that will feature work by emerging playwrights, directors and designers, and will charge just $20 for every ticket.
The 112-seat theater, home to Lincoln Center Theater’s latest program, LCT3, aims to develop new talent, feed the company’s two larger theaters — the Vivian Beaumont and the Mitzi E. Newhouse — and attract younger, more diverse audiences. Even the drinks at intermission will be cheaper.
In making this commitment, Lincoln Center joins nonprofit companies all over the country that are creating modest black-box theaters to present scaled-down productions by rising artists and to build a new generation of patrons.
For More: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/theater/lincoln-center-theater-to-open-claire-tow-theater-for-lct3.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1337091066-jqgZfHJaQPhZGx6A4PHWiQ
Picture by: Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times
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Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center - SKYPAC First Impressions
By Pennman | Posted: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 2:00 pm
I've taken the tour of SKyPAC, Bowling Green's brand new Performing Arts Center, and I must say, it's impressive. And that's just from my view; a music writer and fan who has seen it but not heard a note yet. But I wondered what a true professional musician would think through his even more critical eyes (and ears). So I asked maestro Jeffrey Reed, founder, music director, and conductor of Orchestra Kentucky how impressed he is with the new facility, and then some. So here is some insight into what to expect when you take in a show at SKyPAC, as the hall's principal tenant sees it.
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Ready for its Closeup, Architectural Record 10/11
David Rockwell's new film center invigorates the Film Society of Lincoln Center with first-rate screening rooms, a cafe and a cinema shop.
By: Linda C. Lentz
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Multi-Purpose Spaces: Theatres are figuring out how to get more bang for the buck, Stage Directions, 08/11
There was a time when the artistically inclined shunned the word “multi-purpose” when applied to the space where his or her art was to be created. What’s needed from a hall to enjoy ballet is different from what it takes for an opera to soar. But technology, creative designs and sheer demand have all collided. There result is that there are some amazing multi-purpose spaces being created, both as renovations and from the ground up.
By: Kevin M. Mitchell
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The Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) Announces Excellence Award Winners 11/11/11
The Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) announced and gave certificates to winners of its 2011 Excellence Awards program. The 2012 Calls for Entries are due February 17, 2012.
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Sante Fe Fine Arts Hall - A shining opening for SFC's Fine Arts Hall
"The Hall was built by a company with expertise in performing arts centers and was constructed of materials - from concrete to curtains - designed to provide clear sound free of distortion or of unwanted sounds that can come with amplification."
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Stone-Face, Texas Architect, 07,08/11
With Holzman Moss Bottine Architecture's recent mission to design a municipal complex for the Dallas Suburb of Wylie, Holzman found an opportunity to expand his proficiency in stone's characteristic quality as a structural element.
By: Stephen Sharpe
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LSC-Tomball opens new buildings in time for fall classes, The Paper Magazine 8/2/11
Just in time for fall classes, which begin August 29, Lone Star College-Tomball (LSC-Tomball) will proudly open three new buildings, all of which will enhance the educational experience of its students.
The Performing Arts Center, located on the east side of the campus, is a two-level construction designed for high-quality music and theater productions. Students in the Fine Arts programs will hold their performances in this center. The 30,000-square-foot facility will house a 425-seat theater with a main lobby, a formal box office, an orchestra pit, theatrical sound and lighting equipment, a green room and other professional accommodations.
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Lincoln Restaurant Pavilion & Lawn, Architectural Record, 6/11
Built up on a plinth, and clad in relentless swaths of travertine, Lincoln Center was once considered by many to be a remote
acropolis of culture. A half century after it was built, the iconic mid-20th-century performing arts compound is coming down to earth,
or at least to the surrounding streets of New York City’s Upper West Side.
By: Linda C. Lentz
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New Facalities for the Old Globe, Lighting & Sound in America, 3/11
Time and tide, as they say, wait for no man. in the world of theatrical design, contemporary audiences and production directors look for new advances in both creature comforts and creative flexibility. Which explains why The Old Globe's new Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, within San Diego's Conrad Prebys Theatre Center, is attracting positive reactions from audiences and artists alike.
By: Mel Lambert
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A Unified Home for Arts Education, With a Split Right Down the Middle, New York Times 3/9/11
It’s hard to know whether Brown University’s latest experiment in interdisciplinary studies, the new Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, will ever bear worthwhile artistic fruit. Cross-disciplinary programs have been around for decades, with dubious results. But at least the center has given rise to a handsome piece of architecture.
By: NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF
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Annenberg Center construction set for April, LA Times, 3/5/11
The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, which has been in the planning stages for a decade and a half, finally will begin construction on its Beverly Hills site next month. After roughly two years of construction, the center will open its doors in 2013, organizers say.
By: Scott Timberg
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Trustees Give Construction OK for New Teaching and Learning Building, Harvey Mudd College, 2/22/11
The Harvey Mudd College Board of Trustees voted Jan. 29 in favor of proceeding with the construction of the teaching and learning building. It will be the first teaching and learning space to be erected on campus since the Olin Science Center was built in 1993.
By: Judy Augsburger
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Award: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Seasonal Expansion, ARCHITECT, 2/9/11
The 58th Annual P/A Awards
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UGA Fine Arts renovation complete! 2/10/11
UGA Fine Arts renovation complete! Check out the new space we worked on with Lord, Aeck & Sargent Architecture.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2U1nKDuwX4
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LSC-Montgomery Shows Off Three New Buildings, Yourhoustonnews.com, 2/1/2011
Welcoming a trio of new buildings Tuesday, Lone Star College-Montgomery band and choir students accompanied the dedication of one of the buildings that in total will increase the campus’s original size by 80 percent. The new buildings include a 24,347-square-foot Music Hall, a 65,228-square-foot Health Science Center and a 76,314-square-foot General Academic Center, which guests had an opportunity to tour following the dedications.
By Kassia Micek
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Whittle Starts A City School, Wall Street Journal, 1/31/11
On Tuesday, Mr. Whittle and Benno Schmidt, former president of Yale University, will announce they've raised $75 million from two private-equity investors to launch Avenues, a for-profit, elite private school slated to open along the High Line in Chelsea in September 2012.
By: SHELLY BANJO
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The Granoff Center Comes to Life, Brown University News and Events 1/27/2011
From “fishbowls” to “playgrounds,” students and faculty describe their experiences on the first day of classes in the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts.
By: Deborah Baum
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Brown’s New Masterpiece: Granoff Arts Center, The Providence Journal, 1/16/2011
On Thursday, Feb. 10, the university will officially celebrate the opening of the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, a striking $40-million arts complex designed by the New York architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Perched on a busy stretch of Angell Street, between Thayer and Brown streets, the new building is packed with cutting-edge amenities — everything from a state-of-the-art sound stage to a series of ceiling-mounted digital projectors in the stairways to a 200-seat auditorium shaped by one of the world’s top acoustical experts.
By: Bill Van Siclen
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Immersed in Images and an Age of Blurred Boundaries, New York Times, 1/13/2011
Designed by Thomas Leeser, the swollen baby-blue form, which has been grafted onto the back of a 1920s building, effectively blurs the boundaries among architecture, film and viewer. In doing so it immerses you in the kind of fantasy world you usually get only when the lights are turned off.
By: NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF
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Mayor Buys First Ticket to Shiny New Museum of the Moving Image, The New York Observer, 1/13/2011
L.A. may have Hollywood, but New York has the Museum of the Moving Image, the only institution in the country dedicated exclusively to the history of film. Not the movie stars and memorabilia, though the museum does that, too, but actual film. MOMI just dedicated a new expansion that nearly doubles its size to 97,700 square feet, creating more room for its expansive archives as well as three new theaters in which to view all those films, videos, slides and broadcasts.
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DESIGN REVIEW Diller Scofidio + Renfro's Lincoln Center Makeover, The Washington Post, 12/30/2010
IN NEW YORK The vast majority of the redesign and rebuilding of New York's Lincoln Center is now finished. And even on a blustery winter day, the 16-acre arts center, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2009, is looking livelier, smarter, hipper and more inviting - a change that should be studied closely not just by the Kennedy Center and Washington's public art institutions, but by anyone who cares about the peculiar freedoms of urban life.
By: Philip Kennicott
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Does the Organ Matter? The Wall Street Journal, 11/18/2010
Two questions loomed as the first noble strains of the recently reinstalled Kuhn pipe organ rang out in Alice Tully Hall's Starr Theater on Tuesday after a four-year hiatus, one in which its return seemed uncertain at times. How would the restored organ sound in the renovated auditorium, which reopened in 2009? And how often will the instrument—the only pipe organ in a major New York City concert hall—be used for nonstudent events in the future?
The Lincoln Center event attracted a sell-out crowd, eager to hear virtuoso Paul Jacobs give a rare, complete performance of Bach's "Clavier-Übung III," the third volume in an awesome collection of so-called keyboard exercises. In Mr. Jacobs's hands, the 4,192-pipe organ sounded richer and more robust than before, revitalized by its long- overdue $1 million cleaning, repair and updates.
By: BARBARA JEPSON
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Jewish history museum set to open near historic Philadelphia, Pennlive.com, 11/7/2010
Although the Jewish population in the United States took a big jump during the 20th century, Jews have been part of the American experience for more than 350 years. Now there is a new museum in Philadelphia celebrating that long involvement. The National Museum of American Jewish History is just off Independence Mall, not far from where the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were born.
By: DAVID N. DUNKLE
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UNT's Paul Voertman Concert Hall Achieves Sonic Versatility, The Dallas Morning News, 11/5/2010
The 380-seat Paul Voertman Concert Hall is opening with a series honoring Voertman. The 625-seat hall formerly in the space was renovated. The new hall gets positive reviews for its sonic versatility.
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$60M history center helps Tryon Palace begin new life, NewsObserver.com, 10/17/2010
NEW BERN -- Too many tourists who shuffled through Tryon Palace since it opened in 1959 saw the reconstructed colonial governor's mansion as a once-in-a-lifetime trip. They could have gone back. They just figured that, having seen the English silver, heard the trill of a costumed fifer and smelled a simmering dish made from an 18th century recipe, they didn't need to. The historic site's new $60 million, 60,000-square-foot N.C. History Center adjacent to the palace, visitors will be able to use technology to craft a different experience of early American life each time they come. Finally, history can stop repeating itself.
By: MARTHA QUILLIN
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The Diana Center Opens at Barnard College in New York, Lighting & Sound America, Oct. 2010
Named after the Roman goddess and in honor of Diana T. Vagelos, an alumna and donor, The Diana Center is the latest addition to the campus of Barnard College in New York City...
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Start Your Engines, Sound and Communications 9/20/10
NASCAR Hall of Fame revs up its technology.
Technology is right at home in the new NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, NC, where the sights and sounds of stock car racing are brought to vivid life.
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KTRK-TV (ABC) features opening of Gaertner Performing Arts Center
The new Gaertner Performing Arts Center at Sam Houston State University was designed by WHR Architects and includes a magnificent 800 seat concert hall, 150 seat recital hall, a dance performance hall, and rehearsal and education studios. The concert hall and recital hall are equipped with adjustable acoustics systems to tune the acoustic environment in each room for a wide range of performances. In addition, the concert hall features seating that wraps around and behind the stage, wood acoustic clouds over the wood stage, and state of the art A/V systems. The 92,000 square foot Performing Arts Center brings Theater, Dance and Music departments together and allows them to collaborate and partner in new ways not possible previously. The center also include an outdoor performing space.
View the video at the KTRK website.
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NASCAR Hall of Fame celebrates sport's history in high tech fashion (Associated Press)
JaffeHolden is audio-visual systems and acoustic designer for the brand new NASCAR hall of Fame. JaffeHolden designs feature a sixty-five foot curved screen, three digital projectors using blend edge technology, and a surround sound system capable of reproducing the feel of NASCAR racing.
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Lighting & Sound America
It's now the Stephen Sondheim Theater: The new Stephen Sondheim Theater is acoustically designed from scratch for live amplified musicals and avoids the common Broadway musical pitfalls of excessive loudness.
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Annenberg Center Wallis Annenberg Center For The Performing Arts Breaks Ground
Situated on the historic Beverly Hills Post Office site, the new Wallis Annenberg Performing Arts Center will preserve the iconic landmark while bringing Beverly Hills a state-of-the-art center for cultural and musical enhancement. Designed by Studio Pale Fekete Architects, JaffeHolden has designed the acoustics for the 500 seat adjustable acoustics theater and 150 seat flexible multi-use theater.
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Texas Architect Magazine
Bass Hall - University of Texas: JaffeHolden renovates Bass Hall at UTAustin to improve acoustics for Broadway and headliners and to provide a new sound reinforcement system for touring acts.
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Royal Caribbean launches Oasis of the Seas, the largest cruise ship in the world!
JaffeHolden provided acoustical and audio consultation for the outdoor Aqua Theater and the more traditional indoor Opal Theater.
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Book Release: Theaters 2: Partnerships in Facility Use, Operations and Management
Theaters 2: Partnerships in Facility Use, Operations and Management by Holzman Moss Architecture, JaffeHolden, and Theatre Projects Consultants, published by Images Publishing, is scheduled for publication next month.
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Improved Acoustics Benefit City Opera
...the sound is now good enough that no electronic boost is needed. Opera at the Koch Theater is again a performing art for natural singing in an unamplified space.
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Richmond CenterStage Opens This Weekend
In the renovation of Carpenter Theater, home of the Richmond Symphony, the JaffeHolden team worked in collaboration with Wilson Butler Architects and the theater planners of Theatre Projects Inc. to develop a world-class acoustic that is seamlessly integrated into the architecture of the historic building.
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Alice Tully's Pleasing Makeover
The materials and various subtle shapes within the auditorium represent the physical manifestation of an acoustical idea.
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Sound Check: The reopening of Alice Tully Hall
The pianist Wu Han happily told an audience at the renovated hall—Lincoln Center's chamber-music venue—that it was "the quietest place in New York City."
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At Last, Heavenly Acoustics Are Heard in the Hall
Finally, after what feels like endless years of planning, fund-raising, wish lists and sometimes contentious debates among the constituent institutions of Lincoln Center, ...the first tangible results ... were shown off on Sunday afternoon.
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Musicians Hear Heaven in Tully Hall's New Sound
With giddiness and glee, musicians tested the acoustics of Alice Tully Hall less than a month before it will reopen after a $159 million, 22-month upgrade.
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