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Odeon or Odeum (Ancient Greek: ᾨδεῖον, Ōideion, lit. "singing place") is the name for several ancient Greek and Roman buildings built for musical activities such as singing, musical shows, and poetry competitions. Odeons were smaller than Greek and Roman theatres. [clarification needed]
Ancient Greek theatre in Delos. This is a list of ancient Greek theatres by location. Attica and Athens. Theatre of Dionysus, Athens;
The Beacon Theatre started hosting the New York Music Awards in 1987, the year after the award was founded. [273] The awards were hosted annually at the Beacon until 1992. [ 274 ] [ 275 ] The Broadway League temporarily relocated the Tony Awards , the annual ceremony for Broadway theatre , to the Beacon in the early 2010s due to prior bookings ...
The Hellenistic period started around the time of Alexander the Great's death in 323 BC and lasted until the Roman Victory at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC. As Ancient Greece began to change from a culture consisting of ethnic and city-state Greeks to one governed by large monarchies, theatre architecture to include the stage buildings began to experience significant changes.
Theatre-in-the-round was common in ancient theatre, particularly that of Greece and Rome, but was not widely explored again until the latter half of the 20th century.. In Margo Jones' survey of theatre-in-the-round, [4] the first two sources of central staging in the United States she identified were the productions by Azubah Latham and Milton Smith at Columbia University dating from 1914, and ...
Ancient Greek theatre in Delos The theatron was the seating area, built into a hill to create a natural viewing space. The first seats in Greek theatres (other than just sitting on the ground) were wooden, but around 499 BC, the practice of inlaying stone blocks into the side of the hill to create permanent, stable seating became more common.
An opera production of Ihitai 'Avei'a – Star Navigator at a 'block box' events centre in Auckland, New Zealand Backstage area of the Vienna State Opera. A theater building or structure contains spaces for an event or performance to take place, usually called the stage, and also spaces for the audience, theater staff, performers and crew before and after the event.
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