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The Vancouver Playhouse is a civic theatre venue in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Along with the Orpheum , the Queen Elizabeth Theatre and the Annex, it is one of four facilities operated by the Vancouver Civic Theatres Department (the Playhouse adjoins the QE Theatre in the same complex).
Lobby Theatre interior. The Queen Elizabeth Theatre is a performing arts venue in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaAlong with the Orpheum, Vancouver Playhouse, and the Annex, it is one of four facilities operated by the Vancouver Civic Theatres on behalf of the city of Vancouver (the Playhouse adjoins the QE Theatre in the same complex). [1]
A major fundraiser for the company was the Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival, [4] which was first produced as a single-winery event in 1979. [5] [self-published source?] In 2011, following in-camera deliberations by the Vancouver City Council, Vancouver provided the company with a complex bailout of approximately $1 million. [6]
On March 19, 1974, [3] the City of Vancouver bought the theatre for $7.1 million, with $3.1 million coming from the city itself, and $1.5 million from each of the provincial and federal governments. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The Orpheum closed on November 23, 1975, and a renovation and restoration was done by the architectural company Thomson, Berwick, Pratt ...
Dimmer room: The room backstage which contains the dimmer racks which power the lighting rig in the theatre. Often dimmer racks may not be housed in dedicated room, instead they may be in a mechanical room, control booth, or catwalk, or even on the side of the stage as is often the case on Broadway, touring shows, or at corporate events.
[2] [3] He hired Henry Holdsby Simmonds as the architect, [3] [4] who designed it with a neoclassical interior and an Art Deco exterior, [5] with seating for 1,216 people. [5] In order to make as high quality a theatre as possible, Simmonds used only the best materials he could find, including tindle stone from Winnipeg and tiles from Italy ...
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The Vogue Theatre was designed by the architectural firm Kaplan & Sprachman. [2] Construction began in 1940 and was completed in 1941. It was operated by Canadian Odeon Theatres until 1984, then by Cineplex Odeon.