Modern Theatres 1950–2020

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