CONTENTS

About the Book
Table of Contents
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Table of contents for MODERN THEATRES 1950-2020

Foreword – GRAHAM VICK
Acknowledgements 
Introduction

PART 1.00 Aspects of Modern Theatres

  • 1.00 Introduction – DAVID STAPLES 
  • 1.01 Edwin O. Sachs: A British Theatrical Enigma – DAVID WILMORE 
  • 1.02 Cities, Global and Regenerating – DAVID STAPLES 
  • 1.03 Theatres and Publicness – BOŠTJAN VUGA 
  • 1.04 Prevailing Themes in 20th-Century Theatre Architecture – JOSHUA DACHS 
  • 1.05 Towards a New Theatre Architecture: Developments in Britain after 1950 – ALISTAIR FAIR 
  • 1.06 Front of House Moves to the Forefront – ROBERT SHOOK 
  • 1.07 Concert Halls, Music, and Audiences – CHRISTOPHER BLAIR 
  • 1.08 The Modern Opera House – NICHOLAS PAYNE 
  • 1.09 Playhouses and Spaces for Drama – TIM FOSTER 
  • 1.10 Stage Engineering Systems – MARK AGER 
  • 1.11 Stage Lighting – MARK WHITE
  • 1.12 Sound, and Opera’s Dirty Little Secret – CHRIS FULL 
  • 1.13 New Technologies and Performance – RAJ PATEL
  • 1.14 Acoustics and the Modern Theatre – SÉBASTIEN JOUAN 

PART 2.00 Thirty Significant Theatres 1950–2010  

  • 2.00 Introduction – DAVID STAPLES 
  • The Fifties 
    • 3.01 Royal Festival Hall, 1951, London, UK – MILES GLENDINNING AND SÉBASTIEN JOUAN 
    • 3.02 Festival Theatre, 1957, Stratford, Ontario, Canada – GARY MCCLUSKIE
    • 3.03 Kalita Humphreys Theater, 1959, Dallas, Texas, USA – DAVID STAPLES 
    • 3.04 Musiktheater im Revier, 1959, Gelsenkirchen, Germany – ELAIN HARWOOD 
  • The Sixties 
    • 4.01 Arena Stage, 1961, Washington, DC, USA – JOSHUA DACHS 
    • 4.02 Bunka Kaikan, 1961, Tokyo, Japan – SHOZO MOTOSUGI 
    • 4.03 Philharmonie Berlin, 1963, Berlin, Germany – KARIN WINKELSESSER 
  • The Seventies 
    • 5.01 Finlandia Hall, 1971, Helsinki, Finland – DAVID STAPLES 
    • 5.02 Sydney Opera House, 1973, Sydney, Australia – DAVID STAPLES 
    • 5.03 Teatro Regio Torino, 1971, Torino, Italy – DAVID STAPLES AND SIMONE SOLINAS 
    • 5.04 National Theatre, 1976, London, UK – PATRICK DILLON 
    • 5.05 Royal Exchange Theatre, 1976, Manchester, UK – ANDY HAYLES
  • The Eighties 
    • 6.01 Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, 1981, Berlin, Germany – REINHOLD DABERTO 
    • 6.02 Arts Centre Melbourne, 1982, Melbourne, Australia – TIM BRINKMAN 
    • 6.03 Joyce Theater, 1982, New York, USA – ELIZABETH BRADLEY 
    • 6.04 Derngate, 1983, Northampton, UK – ROGER HOPWOOD 
    • 6.05 Lucent Danstheater, 1987, The Hague, Netherlands – ERIC BLOM AND LIAN THE
    • 6.06 Opéra Bastille, 1989, Paris, France – MICHEL DA COSTA GONÇALVES 
  • The Nineties 
    • 7.01 Sadler’s Wells Theatre, 1998, London, UK – RICHARD YORK 
  • The New Millennium 
    • 8.01 The Lowry, 2000, Salford, UK – ALISTAIR FAIR 
    • 8.02 Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, 2002, Singapore – GAURAV KRIPALANI 
    • 8.03 Walt Disney Concert Hall, 2003, Los Angeles, California, USA – CARL GIEGOLD 
    • 8.04 KÀ Theatre, 2004, MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas, Arizona, USA – DAVID BARBOUR 
    • 8.05 Matsumoto Performing Arts Centre, 2004, Matsumoto, Japan – SHOZO MOTOSUGI 
    • 8.06 Casa da Música, 2005, Porto, Portugal – MARIA RITA LIBERAL ARNAUT 
    • 8.07 Auditório Ibirapuera ‘Oscar Niemeyer’, 2005, São Paulo, Brazil – CLAUDIA TONI 
    • 8.08 National Centre for the Performing Arts, 2007, Beijing, China – JÖRG KÜMMEL 
    • 8.09 Operahuset, 2008, Oslo, Norway – DAVID TURNBULL 
    • 8.10 National Opera House, 2008, Wexford, Ireland – DAVID STAPLES
    • 8.11 Guangzhou Opera, 2010, Guangzhou, China – DAVID STAPLES 

PART 3.00 Snapshots of Twenty Recent Theatres 2009–2020 

  • 9.00 Introduction – DAVID STAPLES 
  • 9.01 Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, 2009, Dallas, Texas, USA – KARIN WINKELSESSER 
  • 9.02 Onassis Cultural Center, 2010, Athens, Greece – KARIN WINKELSESSER 
  • 9.03 New World Center, 2011, Miami, Florida, USA – KARIN WINKELSESSER 
  • 9.04 Royal Opera House, 2011, Muscat, Oman – KARIN WINKELSESSER 
  • 9.05 Harpa, 2011, Reykjavik, Iceland – DAVID STAPLES 
  • 9.06 Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 2011, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK – ALISTAIR FAIR 
  • 9.07 Heydar Aliyev Center, 2012, Baku, Azerbaijan – DAVID STAPLES
  • 9.08 ‘A’ali’ikuhonua Creative Arts Center, 2012, Seabury Hall, Maui, Hawaii, USA – DAVID STAPLES
  • 9.09 Musiktheater am Volksgarten, 2013, Linz, Austria – KARIN WINKELSESSER 
  • 9.10 Everyman Theatre, 2014, Liverpool, UK – ALISTAIR FAIR
  • 9.11 Han Show Theatre, 2014, Wuhan, China – KARIN WINKELSESSER 
  • 9.12 Harbin Opera House, 2015, Harbin, China – DAVID STAPLES 
  • 9.13 Dubai Opera, 2016, Dubai, UAE – KARIN WINKELSESSER 
  • 9.14 Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, 2017, Athens, Greece – KARIN WINKELSESSER
  • 9.15 Boulez Saal, 2017, Berlin, Germany – KARIN WINKELSESSER 
  • 9.16 Elbphilharmonie, 2017, Hamburg, Germany – KARIN WINKELSESSER
  • 9.17 Bridge Theatre, 2017, London, UK – DAVID STAPLES
  • 9.18 National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts, 2018, Taiwan – KARIN WINKELSESSER
  • 9.19 The Shed, The Bloomberg Building, 2019, New York, USA – DAVID STAPLES
  • 9.20 Xiqu Centre, 2019, Hong Kong – DAVID STAPLES
  • 10.00 Conclusions – DAVID STAPLES
  • 10.01 Postscript – “The Ghost Light” – DAVID STAPLES

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