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Also known as: theatron
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Howard Bay
Stage and film designer. Professor of Theatre Arts, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. Author of Stage Design.
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George C. Izenour
Emeritus Professor of Theater Design and Technology, Yale University.
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theatre, in architecture, a building or space in which a performance may be given before an audience. The word is from the Greek theatron, “a place of seeing.” A theatre usually has a stage area where the performance itself takes place. Since ancient times the evolving design of theatres has been determined largely by the spectators’ physical requirements for seeing and hearing the performers and by the changing nature of the activity presented. The civilizations of the Mediterranean basin in general, the Far East, northern Europe, and the Western Hemisphere before the voyages of Christopher Columbus in the second half ...(100 of 38183 words)

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