The Honorable Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D., President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, today unveiled plans for the university's new Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, eMPAC. Located on the campus of a distinguished technological research university, yet reaching out to an international artistic community, .... read more
The Omaha Performing Arts Society broke ground in April for its new $90 million Performing Arts Center. The new building, expected to open in the fall of 2005, will be a multifunction performing arts venue featuring a 2,000 seat concert hall, a 450-seat chamber music hall, ....
read more''Feel-ology.''
That's the word playfully coined by theater consultant Joshua Dachs to describe the still-nameless science of how a performing arts venue ''feels.''
Tongue firmly in cheek, he mentions other options.
Paying tribute to Thespis, believed to ....
read moreJoshua Dachs is pleased to announce the addition of Jon Sivell to the FDA staff. Jon brings a unique understanding of the theatre building and its operations thanks to his experience in both theatre production and performing arts administration. Jon is designing lighting systems for ....
read moreNew York, NY
Fisher Dachs Associates has announced
the addition of theatre consultant Alec Stoll to its consulting team.
With 15 years of nationwide backstage experience as a technical
director, stage manager and lighting designer, and three years as a
professional theatre ....
read moreJoshua Dachs, principal of Fisher Dachs Associates, Inc., will speak at the "Theatre Engineering and Architecture 2002" conference, being held in London, England June 16-18.
Presented in the Strand Palace Hotel in London's Theatreland, the conference will bring together theatre technicians, architects, consultants, scenographers, ....
read moreFor more than seven decades, The Bushnell, Connecticut's premier non-profit presenter of the performing arts, has played a leading role in the state's cultural life. New York City-based theater consultants, Fisher Dachs Associates worked in collaboration with Boston architects Wilson Butler Lodge and Connecticut-based acousticians, ....
read moreFisher Dachs Associates Theatre Consultants Make it Happen at the Oklahoma City Civic Center Music HallWhen the Civic Center Music Hall reopens in September 2001, its centerpiece will be an entirely new 2,500 seat theatre. The theatre has been built within the ....
read more Fisher Dachs Associates, one of the world's leading theatre planning and design consultants, is proud to announce that Adam Huggard has won the Connecticut Critics Circle Award. At the 11th Annual Awards Presentation held recently in Southern Connecticut State University, Huggard was honored with the ....
read moreStanding on the site where Houston's Music Hall and Collliseum once stood, the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts is an $88 million complex that completes Houston's Theater District.
Funded by both public and private support, the new Center, which opened in May, 2002, is ....
read moreNEW YORK THEATRE
DESIGN FIRM WINS
RESTORATION OF HARLEM'S
LEGENDARY APOLLO THEATRE
Fisher Dachs Associates,
award-winning theatre design firm, has been awarded the opportunity to
restore the historic Apollo Theatre in New York City. Jules Fisher/Joshua
Dachs Associates, Inc. (FDA) ....
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