Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harsh proscenium lights, the interior of St. Katherine's Church looked sadly tattered. The backdrop sagged, and the huge carved chair from which Walther von Stolzing sings his trial song in the first act of Die Meistersinger was pushed to one side. But out in the cavernous auditorium sat a crowd of invited guests, waiting for another kind of trial song. The occasion: the Met's first public talent audition...
...time, Lefty was as notable for its formal audacity as for its rabble-rousing radicalism; nowadays we are almost used to seeing more actors in the auditorium than on the stage, but Mr. Odets exploited his gimmick skillfully, and it still works. The stage at Agassiz represents the speakers' platform at a union hall, and the audience are supposed to be taxi drivers at a strike meeting. The house is infiltrated with agents provocateurs, carefully drilled by Mark Mirsky to keep up a running fire of grumbles, taunts, and shouts, and to bring the audience into the play by putting...
...Center, which is to be located at the corner of Brattle and Hilliard Sts., will contain classrooms and a working library as well as two theatres. The large auditorium will seat 515 people, while a smaller experimental theatre will have a seating capacity...
Adaptable Auditorium...
Designed by Hugh A. Stubbins and Associates, Cambridge architects, the building will be a brick and glass structure with an overlay of white screening. An ingenious mechanism will give the main auditorium unique adaptability, enabling it to become an Elizabethan theatre, a proscenium, or a theatre in the round...