Theatres Theatres Chichester Festival Theatre is one of the UK's flagship theatres with an international reputation for creating magical live performances. Its heritage is synonymous with excellence in all things theatrical, from acting and staging to costume. The Festival Theatre, designed by Powell and Moya, opened with much anticipation and to great acclaim by its founder Leslie Evershed-Martin in 1962. Subsequently the smaller and more intimate Minerva Theatre was built in 1989. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chichester Festival Theatre"
The Croatian National Theatre ( Croatian: Hrvatsko narodno kazalište) is located in Zagreb the capital of Croatia. It was established in 1860. The following year it gained government support putting it on par with many of other national theatres around Europe. In 1870 a national opera company was formed based out of the theatre. ...more on Wikipedia about "Croatian National Theatre"
The Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay is a waterside building alongside Marina Bay near the mouth of the Singapore River, purpose-built to be the centre for performing arts for the island nation of Singapore. It contains a 1600 seat concert hall and a 2000 seat theatre for the performing arts. The Library@esplanade is located on the third floor of the building. There are outdoor performing centres and retail amd food space. There is an outdoor open space on the fourth floor of the building. ...more on Wikipedia about "Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay"
This is a partial list of entertainment venues in London. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of London venues"
Mainstage theatre is that which falls between studio theatre and large-scale events. It is usually performed in a proscenium theatre or on a thrust stage. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mainstage"
The Národní Divadlo or the National Theatre in Prague is known as the Alma Mater of Czech Opera, and as the national monument of Czech history and art. ...more on Wikipedia about "National Theatre (Prague)"
Nationaltheatret ("The National Theater") is one of Norway's largest and most prominent venues for performance of dramatic arts. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nationaltheatret" Visit again http://www.shortopedia.com
The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) is a complex in downtown Newark of musical and theater facilities that opened in 1997. It is one of the major parts of Newark's revitalization plan in the center near the Passaic River waterfront, east of New Jersey Institute of Technology campus. ...more on Wikipedia about "New Jersey Performing Arts Center"
The Ohio Theatre in Loudonville is one of at least two theatres in the Ohio State named Ohio Theatre. This one situated at 146 North Water Street, Loudonville was built on the site of the town's first theatrical building of 1874. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ohio Theatre (Loudonville)"
A roadhouse is a theatre building that does not house a producing company of its own, but instead rents its facility to production companies. Most Broadway and Off-Broadway theaters can be considered roadhouses. Many cities have roadhouses of their own that present that road show of successful broadway musicals (for instance Rent.) The Shubert Organization runs many roadhouses across the country. ...more on Wikipedia about "Roadhouse"
Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern or Royal Dramatic Theatre, in Swedish usully Dramaten. The Royal Dramatic Theatre is Swedens national stage for the "spoken drama". Around one thousand shows are played yearly on the theatres six stages. ...more on Wikipedia about "Royal Dramatic Theatre"
Sejong Center for the Performing Arts (or Sejong Center) is the largest arts and cultural complex in Seoul, South Korea. It has an interior area of 53,202m². It is situated in the center of the capital, on Sejong-ro, a main road that cuts through the ancient capital city of the Joseon Dynasty. The center took 4 years to complete, opening its doors in 1978. It was "built as a cultural center for Seoulites". It currently is home to the biggest pipe organ in Asia ...more on Wikipedia about "Sejong Center"
The Seoul Arts Center, literally the Hall of Arts, is a cultural center in the southern area of Seoul, South Korea. ...more on Wikipedia about "Seoul Arts Center"
The Slovak National Theatre (in Slovak Slovenské národné divadlo ) denotes: ...more on Wikipedia about "Slovak National Theatre"
Teatrul Evreiesc de Stat (TES, the State Jewish Theater) in Bucharest, Romania is a theater specializing in Jewish-related plays. Its contemporary repertoire includes plays by Jewish authors, plays on Jewish topics, and plays in Yiddish (which are performed with simultaneous translation into Romanian, using headphones installed in the theater in the 1970s). Many of the plays also feature Jewish actors. ...more on Wikipedia about "State Jewish Theater (Romania)"
A summer stock theatre is a theater that generally produces plays only in the summertime. The name combines the seasonal aspect with a tradition of putting on the same shows each year and reusing "stock" scenery and costumes. Some smaller theaters still continue this tradition, and a few summer stock theaters have become highly-regarded theatre festivals. ...more on Wikipedia about "Summer stock theatre"
Teatr Narodowy (National Theater) was founded in Poland by its last monarch, Stanisław August Poniatowski in Warsaw, 1765, during the Polish Enlightenment. Suspended after the November Uprising ( 1830), Teatr Narodowy was recreated in the Second Polish Republic in 1924. The quality of Teatr Narodowy was adversly affected by the government pressure during the times of the People's Republic of Poland (1945-1989). ...more on Wikipedia about "Teatr Narodowy"
Teatro de La Caridad in Santa Clara is one of the remaining colonial buildings from the epoc of the Spanish control in Cuba. ...more on Wikipedia about "Teatro de La Caridad"
Teatro Nacional de Costa Rica (The National Theatre of Costa Rica) is located in the central section of San José. Construction began on the theatre in 1891, and it opened to the public on October 21, 1897 with a performance of Faust. ...more on Wikipedia about "Teatro Nacional de Costa Rica"
Teatro Nacional de El Salvador, or National Theatre of El Salvador, is the grandest theatre in Central America. Its construction was started November 3, 1911, by the French architect Daniel Beylard; and inaugurated March 1, 1917. It is of French Renaissance style with modern touches. It was decorated by the Italian architect Lucio Capellaro, and its Great Hall is the most beautiful and elegant in Central America. ...more on Wikipedia about "Teatro Nacional de El Salvador"
(Teatro Olimpico) Around 1580 the Vicenza Accademia Olimpica commissioned the famous architect Andrea Palladio to plan a new theater for the eastern part of Vicenza's downtown. ...more on Wikipedia about "Teatro Olimpico"
The Teatro Tapia, in Puerto Rico is likely to oldest free-standing drama stage building still in use in the United States. Facing east, across from Plaza de Colon, on Fortaleza street, and built about 1872. After some years of neglect, the theater was restored in the last decades and is now used to provide intimate drama and other cultural events. The interior audience hall is remarkable for the period-copies of wood chairs. A block south lies a brick-shaped original casa de carreteros; house of road-maintainers. To the North-east lie a string of cultural institutions: the restored Casino de Puerto Rico, the YMCA, the Carnegie library, the Ateneo de Puerto Rico, and Moorish-inspired Casa de Espana. In the North seaward cliff, sprawls the historic and labyrinthine fort of San Cristobal. The original landward gate of old San Juan lay just east of this site on Calle Fortaleza. It is named after the poet and dramatist Alejandro Tapia y Rivera (1826-1882). ...more on Wikipedia about "Teatro Tapia"
The Teatro Yaguez is a performing arts theater located in the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico at McKinley and Basora Streets. It was founded by Francisco Maymon Palmer. He was a pioneer in the industry of cinematography, who introduced the people of Puerto Rico to the new form of art at the beginning of the 20th century by showing silent films far and wide on his travels through the island. With the help of Jose Rahola and founder Vargas, he brought movies from France and Italy to show them in the Old Municipal Theatre (Viejo Teatro Municipal). ...more on Wikipedia about "Teatro Yaguez"
The Whole World Theatre is a popular improv comedy theater located in Atlanta, Georgia. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Whole World Theatre"
The Théâtre de l'Île (Theatre of the Island) is a small municipaly run theatre in Gatineau, Quebec. It is located on a small island at the southern end of the Ruisseau de la Brasserie, a small river running just to the west of Montcalm Street. The building was originally contrcuted in 1886 as the Hull Water Works, at a time when the site was at the heart of a largelly industrial area. In the subsquent decades the building served a number of different purposes. In 1974 it suffered a devastating fire. The city of Hull and the National Capital Commission joined toghether to rebuild the structure as a theatre. It opened in 1976, and was the first municipaly run theatre in Quebec. ...more on Wikipedia about "Théâtre de l'Île"
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