Voltaire at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas is a truly unique venue, designed by Derek McLane along with John Featherstone of Lightswitch, that offers a refined evening’s entertainment in an intimate and luxurious Art Deco environment.
In the southwestern corner of rural Vermont, within a town of 586 people, Weston Playhouse has spent the last 82 years doing the nearly impossible: establishing a resident professional theater with jam-packed houses throughout its annual summer season.
The Birth of Non-Profit Residential Theater
The Guthrie Theater, serving in the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, has been in operation for over 50 years. Unlike theaters on Broadway, which are designed for optimum return on investment, Sir Tyrone Guthrie was primarily devoted to the idea of establishing a playhouse that would exist primarily to nurture and cultivate artistic expression. Run as a nonprofit enterprise, the playhouse he envisioned would keep important works of literature alive by presenting them to appreciative audiences while also cultivating the artistic talents of the performers on stage.
It seems the designers of the new water-based Han Show, in Wuhan, China, have things a bit backwards. Instead of brainstorming on the conceptual basics of a theatrical show and securing the proper venue for it, the leading designers of the production have gotten support from Dalian Wanda Group, a large Chinese commercial property developer and cinema operator that constructed an entire theater for the specific purpose of housing The Han Show..