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You don't expect to find high architecture in a high school auditorium. But the Menlo-Atherton Center for Performing Arts upsets all expectations. Rooted to its site on Middlefield Road, it's an instant civic monument, a luminous and intimate theater and a top-quality teaching tool all .... read more
On two occasions Don Snyder approached one of the nation's largest private philanthropic organizations about supporting a performing arts center in Las Vegas. Both times, Snyder says, the foundation said it wasn't interested in getting behind the project.

More than $150 million later, that .... read more
The showdown will begin on April 27.

The two integrated resorts (IRs) on Singapore shores will finally lock horns - some five years after their winning bids - when Marina Bay Sands (MBS) throws open its doors to visitors, punters included, that day.
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New School officials and project architects presented the latest plans for the University Center — to be built at the site of the school’s current 65 Fifth Ave. — at a meeting of Community Board 2’s Arts and Institutions Committee last Wednesday.

As its name .... read more
Las Vegas Sands Corp. said Tuesday it will open a portion of the $5.5 billion Marina Bay Sands in Singapore on April 27.

The project's nearly 3-acre SkyPark, which sits atop the hotel-casino's three 55-story hotel towers, will open June 23 as part of the overall .... read more
Performers won’t strike their first notes in the newly planned Bing Concert Hall for at least two years, but the music community here is already abuzz with anticipation.

University trustees last week announced that construction plans have been approved for the new $110 .... read more
The Washington theater company Arena Stage on Wednesday announced productions for its 2010-11 season that coincide with the grand opening of its new campus. The complex, the Mead Center for American Theater,  will include three theaters, rehearsal and shop space, and offices and will .... read more
After a $125 million makeover -- the most expensive theater renovation in Washington history -- the first words to ring out at Arena Stage in Southwest Washington this fall will be old ones. But the sentiment they express, the company hopes, will seem as fresh and .... read more
I was eating lunch Monday at Chicago Hot Dogs on Rancho Drive when a woman sitting near me struck up a conversation with some people who had just given their order. She said her employer transferred her to Las Vegas three years ago, she doesn't .... read more
The plot of land at Symphony Park Avenue and City Parkway sits literally at the crossroads of Las Vegas' history. What was once home to the rail yard that helped put Las Vegas on the map in 1905 is becoming home to a performing arts center .... read more
This plot of land at the corner of Symphony Park Avenue and City Parkway feels symbolic: What was once home to the railroad that put Las Vegas on the map as a city is now home to a performing arts center designed to put us .... read more
By PATRICK HEALY
Published: February 8, 2010

Shakespeare enthusiasts, get thee to the Armory: the Royal Shakespeare Company will hold court in Manhattan in the summer of 2011 for an unprecedented six-week, five-play residency. The troupe will occupy a newly constructed theater inside the Park .... read more
The 52nd Street Project, a non-profit that matches kids from Hells Kitchen with professional theater artists (Cynthia Nixon, Billy Crudup, and Edie Falco to name a few) to create original works, has officially opened in its permanent home designed by BKSK Architects. After occupying various .... read more
Diana Center opened last week as Weiss / Manfredi has managed to settle almost imperceptibly between buildings Parisian pretensions to Broadway in New York. The building is an extension of the Barnard College of Liberal Arts.

The Barnard College's education has always aimed exclusively .... read more
In the early 1960s Hugh Hardy worked as an assistant to Jo Mielziner, the theatrical designer. Mr. Mielziner was collaborating with Eero Saarinen on the design of the Vivian Beaumont Theater for the new Lincoln Center, and part of Mr. Hardy’s job was to .... read more
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Part education research centre, part museum, part recording studio, part live music venue, the facility will create a space for innovative and creative programs for people of all ages.

In collaboration with the Cantos Music Foundation, .... read more
As part of a $22-million upgrade, the Old Globe Theatre demolished a 224-seat in-the-round theater and replaced it with ... a 250-seat in-the-round theater. The spaces are so similar that, from your seat, you have to look closely to notice what's different.

Good thing.<.... read more
In 1975, Gerald Ford was president, the country was in the grips of a recession and, in Scottsdale, a new performing arts center opened with a concert by Grammy and Tony Award-winning singer and songwriter Roger Miller.

In 2009, Barack Obama serves as president, the .... read more
Aqua Theater presents a challenge to an architect who has created dance clubs and carousels for ships.

"Think of bouncing up and down in the back of the school bus," Scott Butler says. "Now think of 135,000 gallons of water bouncing up from a .... read more
Los Angeles, too often dismissed as "tinsel town" for its association with the entertainment industry, is a vibrant hub of the performing arts, with sophisticated audiences and an abundance of local talent. The LA Philharmonic fills the 2400 seats of Walt Disney Concert Hall for its .... read more