Everything about Vivian Beaumont Theatre totally explained
The
Vivian Beaumont Theater is a
theater in
New York City in the
United States. It is located at
Lincoln Center, 150 West 65th Street, on the Upper West Side of
Manhattan. The building was designed by the renowned
Finnish American architect
Eero Saarinen. The two theaters within the building, the 1,080-seat Vivian Beaumont Theater and the 299-seat Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater (called The Forum until 1973), were designed by
Jo Mielziner. Although it was built for the presentation of plays such as those produced on
Broadway, the Beaumont differs from traditional Broadway theaters because of its
amphitheater configuration and
thrust stage. It is considered a fairly large theater for dramatic plays and a medium-size theater for musicals. It is New York's only
Broadway-class theater (eligible for
Tony Awards) that isn't located in the Theater District near
Times Square.
The Beaumont is named after
Vivian Beaumont Allen, a former actress and heiress to the
May Department Stores fortune, who donated $3 million in 1958 for a building to house a permanent dramatic repertory company at
Lincoln Center. Mrs. Allen died in 1962, and after several delays and estimated construction costs of $9.6 million, the Beaumont Theater opened in October 1965.
Since 1985, the Beaumont has been operated by
Lincoln Center Theater (now under the direction of André Bishop and Bernard Gersten). It has been renovated several times over the years to improve its acoustics and technical facilities.
Notable productions by
Lincoln Center Theater at the Vivian Beaumont have included the well-received 2008 revival of
Rodgers and Hammerstein's
South Pacific,
Tom Stoppard's
The Coast of Utopia and
Arcadia,
The Light in the Piazza,
Dana Ivey in
The Rivals,
Stephen Sondheim's
The Frogs,
Christopher Plummer in
King Lear,
Kevin Kline in
Henry IV, the long-running "dance play" musical
Contact,
Nicholas Hytner's production of
Twelfth Night,
Stockard Channing in
Six Degrees of Separation,
Patti Lupone in
Cole Porter's
Anything Goes, and the 1994 Tony Award revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's
Carousel (the Broadway debut of Tony-winner
Audra McDonald).
Before 1985, the theater had several other managers and some periods of inactivity:
The theater has been rented occasionally to commercial producers, most memorably in 1983 for
Peter Brook's production of
La Tragedie de Carmen.
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