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The Chicago Theatre, originally known as the Balaban and Katz Chicago Theatre, is a landmark theater located on North State Street in the Loop area of Chicago, Illinois. Built in 1921, the Chicago Theatre was the flagship for the Balaban and Katz (B&K) group of theaters run by A. J. Balaban , his brother Barney Balaban and partner Sam Katz. [ 5 ]
In 1962, the company of The Old Vic theatre was dissolved, and reconstituted as the "National Theatre Company" opening on 22 October 1963 with Hamlet. The company remained based in The Old Vic until the new buildings opened in February 1976. The National Theatre Board was established in February 1963, formally gaining the Royal prefix in 1990.
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This new form of architecture, by Jenney, Burnham, Sullivan, and others, became known as the "Commercial Style," but was called the "Chicago School" by later historians. In 1892, the Masonic Temple surpassed the New York World Building , breaking its two-year reign as the tallest skyscraper, only to be surpassed itself two years later by ...
In 1837, the first resident theater company, the short-lived Chicago Theater, opened in the Sauganash Hotel. One of the players was then a boy named Joseph Jefferson, who grew to become a very successful comedic actor. Chicago's main theater prize, the Joseph Jefferson award, is named after this pioneer.
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Britain’s Royal Shakespeare Company, among the world’s most famous and critically acclaimed theaters, will return to Chicago next fall for the first time in 30 years with a new staging of ...
Detail of the Royal National Theatre (1976) showing the grain of the formwork Example of large board form concrete formwork, constructed to create a complex concrete wall form with the raw concrete aesthetic of béton brut. The use of béton brut was pioneered by modernist architects such as Auguste Perret and Le Corbusier.