The signature of Alvar Aalto on the wall of Jyväskylä's theatre building.

It was the first theatre ( indeed the world's first public building ) to be lit entirely by electric lighting.

The Crest building on the corner of Blaxcell and Redfern Streets, was built by Hoyts in 1948 as a movie theatre and was used for screening movies up until 1963.

The only remaining railway building, a goods shed, has now been converted into a theatre which is run by HIADS.

It also contained a summer garden, winter garden and roof garden, an enormous restaurant and several smaller eating areas, its own laundry, a theatre and concert booking office, its own bank, whose strongrooms were underground at the eastern end of the building ( and generated their own history decades later ), and a large fleet of private delivery vehicles.

* Opera house – theatre building used for opera performances that consists of a stage, an orchestra pit, audience seating, and backstage facilities for costumes and set building.

His most significant remaining architectural work is the anatomical theatre, which was added to Gustavianum in the 1660s and crowned with the characteristic cupola for which the building is today known.

) When this original theatre building in New Castle was in danger of being demolished, the modern Warner Bros. called the modern building owners, and arranged a 3 way in hopes of saving it, between three men, Warner Bros, and the modern owners.

Until the early 20th century, the chief ancient buildings at Sparta were the theatre, of which, however, little showed above ground except portions of the retaining walls ; the so-called Tomb of Leonidas, a quadrangular building, perhaps a temple, constructed of immense blocks of stone and containing two chambers ; the foundation of an ancient bridge over the Eurotas ; the ruins of a circular structure ; some remains of late Roman fortifications ; several brick buildings and mosaic pavements.

With the building of new theatre facilities and the formation of new companies, the capital's total theatre capacity exceeded 10, 000 after 1610.

In 1558 the first German observatory was built in Kassel, followed in 1604 by the Ottoneum, the first permanent German theatre building.

State of the art electronics are used throughout the building and there is also a theatre showing historical films about the area.

Discussions have been held at local governmental level about demolishing this modern building and replacing it with a replica of the old theatre.

The original building, a converted movie theatre where artists such as Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, Booker T. & the M. G.

The second important type of building that survives all over the Hellenic world is the open-air theatre, with the earliest dating from around 350 BC.

To celebrate the 300th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth in 1864 the brewer, Charles Edward Flower, instigated the building of a temporary wooden theatre, known as the Tercentenary Theatre, which was built in a part of the brewer's large gardens on what is today the site of the new, and temporary, Courtyard Theatre.

* The new Priory Square building is scheduled to open in 2012 and will provide a 160 seat lecture theatre and a suite of laboratories for science courses.

In July 1799, Dutch prisoners sought permission to use one building as a theatre.

The new 48-floor building, funded by the City of London and developed by Heron International, will house a 650-seat concert hall, a 220-seat theatre and a 90-seat studio theatre, as well as studios for television, radio, teaching, rehearsal, office and support services.

The theatre was the first theatre, and the first public building in the world, to be lit entirely by electricity.

Other buildings of note include the Peacock Theatre, the School's main lecture theatre, seating 999 persons, which by night serves as the West End base of Sadler's Wells.

The theatre has a relatively low ceiling at stage level and all of its seating except for boxes on the two side walls is on one level slanted back from the stage.

The theatre is less preserved than the theatre at Aspendos, but it is almost as large, seating 15, 000-20, 000 people.

An Off-Broadway theatre is a professional venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499.

Originally referring to the location of a venue and its productions on a street intersecting Broadway in Manhattan's Theatre District, the hub of the theatre industry in the United States, the term later became defined by the League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers as a professional venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, or a specific production that appears in such a venue, and which adheres to related trade union and other contracts.

The theatre, which was founded in 1976, has a raked auditorium seating 74, a proscenium stage, a fully licensed bar, a deaf loop and free on-site parking.

It included a library ( containing 3, 300 volumes in 1839 ), reading room, museum, laboratory, and lecture theatre seating 500.

With seating for nearly 1, 000, the theatre features a wide variety of professional national and international touring shows ( including Arlo Guthrie, the Chinese Golden Acrobats, the New York Theatre Ballet, and the Guthrie Theatre ), local performing groups ( Playhouse 412, Fargo / Moorhead Jazz Arts Group, Wadena Madhatters ) and events ( wedding receptions, business meetings, and Detroit Lakes ' Annual Festival of the Birds ).

An opera house is a theatre building used for opera performances that consists of a stage, an orchestra pit, audience seating, and backstage facilities for costumes and set building.

Facilities include a new 250-seat lecture theatre, seminar and teaching rooms, as well as a cafe with outdoor seating.

* The Olivier Theatre ( named after the theatre's first artistic director, Laurence Olivier ), is the main auditorium, and was modelled on the ancient Greek theatre at Epidaurus ; it has an open stage and a fan-shaped audience seating area for 1, 160 people.

The increased resolution allows the audience to be much closer to the screen ; typically all rows are within one screen height ; conventional theatre seating runs 8 to 12 screen heights.

The Tamworth Capitol Theatre is fitted with a 405-seat auditorium with two levels of tiered seating, professional theatre lighting, a full sound system, dressing rooms, an orchestra pit, and fly tower, and is fully air conditioned.

They wished to go wider than the University Amateur Dramatic Club ( ADC ), founded in 1885, with its membership drawn largely from Trinity College, and its theatre seating only 100.

The new building features a new press box, new bleachers ( relocating Carthage fan seating from the west to the east side of Art Keller Field ), a new and larger bookstore, new dining options, a campus " living room ", a new dining room, a 200-seat theatre, an art gallery, and a gaming area.

Having chosen the architect Michael Hopkins of Hopkins Architects in a design competition, Christie announced in 1990 that a new theatre, capable of seating 1, 200 people, would be constructed in 1992.

The design of the theatre, a large brick oval building, has resulted in a four-level, horseshoe-shaped auditorium with main level seating, two balconies, and a gallery topped with a circular roof.

Work started on the site in 1926 and by Christmas 1930 a completely new theatre seating 1, 640 was ready for occupation.

With retractable raked seating and a floor which can be raised or lowered to form a stage, the theatre can accommodate up to 400 patrons and host a variety of different events.

The theatre is marveled for its exceptional acoustics, which permit almost perfect intelligibility of unamplified spoken word from the proscenium or skênê to all 15, 000 spectators, regardless of their seating ( see Ref., in Greek ).

It has three floors offering four venues: a 260 seat theatre, a 100 seat studio theatre, the point / music area accommodating 550 standing, and the cinema, seating 130.