The Hidden Theatres of the Marche Book

How did a tiny, isolated, backward area of Italy come to have over 100 theatres? Many of them are architectural gems and still in working order today. What drove almost every small town or village to demand and get its own theatre?

The Shed London National Theatre

The Shed London design by Haworth Tompkins – London National Theatre temporary venue, English architecture, England theatre building images

Za-Koenji Public Theatre Tokyo Building

Za-Koenji Public Theatre Tokyo Building

Toyo Ito won the Pritzker Prize in 2013 and is considered one of the best architects in the world. His architecture practice is based in the Japanese capital and produces a wide variety of work, theatres are not a speciality but just one of numerous typologies the office wroks with.

Dunfield Theatre Cambridge Arts Building, Ontario

Dunfield Theatre Cambridge Arts Building, Ontario

One of the largest performing arts companies in Canada is set to open a ‘cultural hub’ and 500-seat theatre in Cambridge, Ontario. Drayton Entertainment inaugurates its seventh and largest venue, Dunfield Theatre tonight. The facility consolidates the company’s operations under one roof and revitalizes the riverfront district of this historic city.

Theatre Royal Dumfries building design

Theatre Royal Dumfries Building lighting design

The scheme makes financial help available to property owners to meet the cost of high-quality repairs using traditional materials and specialist craftsman to conserve original features in buildings of special architectural or historic interest. In return, owners must maintain the building and allow some access to visitors.

Earlsfield Theatre Wandsworth Building

Earlsfield Theatre Wandsworth Building

The proposal for Tara Arts Theatre – home to an acclaimed arts company which first brought Asian theatre to Britain in the 1970’s – is the creation of RHWL Arts Team architects and will be part funded by a grant from Arts Council England

Gartenstraße Music Hall Theatre Berlin

Gartenstraße Music Hall Theatre Berlin

An old cabaret theatre from the roaring ’20s has been uncovered in the heart of Berlin. The semi-derelict music hall theatre, built in 1905 on Gartenstraße in Berlin Mitte, has been buried in 30 tonnes of rubble since 1934 when it closed, perhaps as part of a crackdown on the cabaret scene by the Nazi regime.

Theatre Spijkenisse, New Rotterdam Theatre

Theatre Spijkenisse Rotterdam Theatre

The design for the Theatre Spijkenisse focuses on the placement and orientation of the building in the urban location, whilst simultaneously providing architectural solutions for programming needs and public access.

Grand Theater Tianjin, Culture Park

Grand Theater Tianjin Building, Culture Park China Grand Theater Tianjin, China Chinese Theatre Building, New Culture Park – design by gmp · Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner 13 Oct 2012 Grand Theater, Tianjin, China Architect: gmp · Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner Grand Theater Tianjin Building The Grand Theater occupies the key position … Read more

Molde Theatre – Plassen, Building, Norway

Molde Theatre Plassen building, Norway jazzhouse

In designing the city’s new cultural center, the challenge faced by 3XN was to create a building that was flexible and robust enough to provide a framework for cultural life on both scales.

Masrah Al Qasba Theater: Sharjah Building

Masrah Al Qasba Theater Sharjah building interior

The conversion of the Masrah Al Qasba Theater in Sharjah is the first project to be completed by magma architecture in the United Arab Emirates. Visitors to the 300 seat auditorium find themselves wrapped in a sculpturally undulating space evoking recollections of the landscapes of Sharjah.

Chester Theatre Building

The scheme, on a site in the centre of the historic city, includes the transformation of the redundant Grade II listed Odeon cinema which dates from 1936.

Wuxi Grand Theatre – Finnish Design in China

Finnish Design is internationally renowned for its concepts of clear and functional style, which meet the needs of the users from a long-term perspective. The first large scale example of Finnish design in China was completed by the opening of the Wuxi Grand Theatre in April 2012