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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).
The theatre has a 70′ wide x 40′ deep (21.34m x 12.19m) stage / performing area. The building holds two venues: the 2,765 seat main auditorium and the 668 seat Playhouse Theatre. The theatre was the first project by the Montreal-based architectural partnership Lebensold, Desbarats, Affleck, Dimakopoulos, Michaud, Sise. [2] It opened in July ...
The company performed out of the Vancouver Playhouse, a civic theatre in Vancouver’s downtown core (at Hamilton and Dunsmuir), which is also home to the Vancouver Recital Society and the Friends of Chamber Music. Citing financial difficulties, the company announced that it would cease operations on March 10, 2012 [2]
[7] [12] It re-opened on April 2, 1977, and has since been the permanent home of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. [3] [13] Tony Heinsbergen, a U.S. designer who originally chose the color scheme for the interior (ivory, moss green, gold and burgundy) was brought back, fifty years later, for the renovation. [14]
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Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company, a theatre company in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, producing plays since 1962 Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Vancouver Playhouse .
The Arts Club Theatre Company is a Canadian professional theatre company in Vancouver, British Columbia, founded in 1958.It is the largest urban not-for-profit theatre company in the country and the largest in Western Canada, with productions taking place at the 650-seat Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage, the 440-seat Granville Island Stage, the 250-seat Newmont Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre ...
Money came from fundraising campaigns by the Arts Club and Vancouver TheatreSports, at least $3.9 million from the provincial and federal government, [43] a $100,000 grant from the City of Vancouver, [4] the purchase of a density transfer to the One Wall Centre [44] by Peter Wall for $1.2 million, [45] as well as corporate sponsorship by du ...