Word: theater
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tide has turned. Today it is almost obligatory for a city to have a fine old theater or train station or office building that has been saved, spiffed up and put back to good, if not necessarily its original use -- a building that 20 years ago would have been pulled down without a second thought. Buying paperbacks and chocolate-chip cookies in what used to be a warehouse and watching stand-up comedians in what used to be a stable and living in what used to be a factory are now, happily, coast-to-coast cliches, not novelties. As ever...
...charming West 4th Street a historic district last year. Among the latest local projects: the conversion of a down-at-the-heels Renaissance Revival textile building into offices. The former Tivoli Union brewery in Denver, a pseudo- Bavarian fantasy, is a giddy complex of shops, offices, restaurants and movie theaters. The vast old Bullock's department store in downtown Los Angeles has been turned into the country's largest wholesale jewelry mart, and Houston's art deco Alabama Theater has merely exchanged one muse for another. The place is now a bookstore. Pioneer Square in Seattle, with its raffish characters...
...complete name--Explosives B Cabaret Telly Lounge & Cafe Gluttony Video Institute--comes from the name of a pocket theater which Peter Sellars '80 created in the same room nine years ago. Sellars, who has since directed for the National Theater in Washington, originally named the room the Explosives B Cabaret after a sign he found on a Colorado roadside, now inlaid in the door...
...drama group formed by Harvard's Jewish student organization will present two one-act plays this weekend, as part of an effort to produce Jewish theater and to provide a theatrical forum for students who observe the Sabbath, according to student leaders of the troupe, called the Hillel Dramatics Group...
...Theater...