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Theatre in the round

April 26, 2024

"In the round" redirects here. For other uses, see In the round (disambiguation).

A theatre in the round, arena theatre, or central staging is a space for theatre in which the audience surrounds the stage.

The stage of the Cockpit Theatre, London, has seating on four sides with a capacity of 240.

Theatre-in-the-round was common in ancient theatre, particularly that of Greece and Rome, but was not widely explored again until the latter half of the 20th century.

The Glenn Hughes Penthouse Theatre in Seattle, Washington was the first theatre-in-the-round venue built in the United States. It first opened on May 19, 1940 with a production of Spring Dance, a comedy by playwright Philip Barry.[1] The 160-seat theatre is located on the campus of the University of Washington in Seattle and is on the National Register of Historic Places.

In 1947, Margo Jones established America's first professional theatre-in-the-round company when she opened her Theater '47 in Dallas. The stage design as developed by Margo Jones was used by directors in later years for such well-known shows as Fun Home, the original stage production of Man of La Mancha, and all plays staged at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre (demolished in the 1960s), including Arthur Miller's autobiographical After the Fall. Such theatres had previously existed in colleges, but not in professional theatre buildings.

Theater in the round is a particularly appropriate setting for staging of dramas using Bertolt Brecht's alienation effect,[2] which stands in opposition to the more traditional Stanislovski technique[3] in drama. Whereas the Stanislovski school of acting attempts to immerse the audience so deeply in belief of its characters that they can imagine themselves as the character, the Brechtian alienation effect deliberately tries to remind the audience that this is a fictional representation. Alienation techniques include tactics as obvious as displaying placards or posters around the set and visibility of lighting fixtures. In round theatres, alienation may be achieved by partially lighting the audience so that people are always reminded that they are in a theatre watching a drama.

Stage configuration edit

The stage is always in the centre with the audience arranged on all sides, and is most commonly rectangular, circular, diamond, or triangular. Actors may enter and exit through the audience from different directions or from below the stage. The stage is usually on an even level with or below the audience in a "pit" or "arena" formation.

This configuration lends itself to high-energy productions and anything that requires audience participation. It is favoured by producers of classical theatre and it has continued as a creative alternative to the more common proscenium format.

In effect, theatre-in-the-round removes the fourth wall and brings the actor into the same space as the audience. This is often problematic for proscenium or end stage trained actors who are taught that they must never turn their backs to the audience, something that is unavoidable in this format. However, it allows for strong and direct engagement with the audience.

It is also employed when theatrical performances are presented in non-traditional spaces such as restaurants, public areas such as fairs or festivals, or street theater. Set design is often minimal in order not to obscure the audience's view of the performance.

History edit

Theatre-in-the-round was common in ancient theatre, particularly that of Greece and Rome, but was not widely explored again until the latter half of the 20th century.

In Margo Jones' survey of theatre-in-the-round,[4] the first two sources of central staging in the United States she identified were the productions by Azubah Latham and Milton Smith at Columbia University dating from 1914, and T. Earl Pardoe's productions at Brigham Young University in 1922.

In 1924, Gilmor Brown founded the Fair Oaks Playbox in Pasadena, California, an important early practitioner of central staging in addition to other stage configurations that it pioneered in its advent of flexible staging.[5] As Indicated by Jones,[6] the centrally staged productions of the Fair Oaks Playbox were followed approximately eight years later by the work of Glenn Hughes in his Seattle Penthouse.

Stephen Joseph was the first to popularise the form in the United Kingdom from the US in the 1950s and set up theatres-in-the-round in Newcastle-under-Lyme and the Studio Theatre in Scarborough. The current theatre, opened in 1996, is known as the Stephen Joseph Theatre. Joseph was reputed to have once rhetorically asked, "Why must authorities stand with their back to a wall?" His answer was: "So nobody can knife them from behind."

Sam Walters set up an impromptu performance space in the upstairs of the Orange Tree pub in Richmond, London in the early 1970s and subsequently moved across the road to a permanent Orange Tree Theatre.

In 1972, RG Gregory set up the Word and Action theatre company in Dorset in England to work exclusively in theatre-in-the-round. Gregory sought to create a grammar that would enable actors to maximise the form's potential for connecting with the audience both as individuals and as a collective. All Word and Action productions were performed in normal lighting conditions, without costumes or makeup.

Uses in television and concert halls edit

The innovations of Margo Jones were an obvious influence on Albert McCleery when he created his Cameo Theatre for television in 1950. Continuing until 1955, McCleery offered dramas seen against pure black backgrounds instead of walls of a set. This enabled cameras in the darkness to pick up shots from any position.

Richard Nixon's 1968 U.S. Presidential campaign staged nine live televised question and answer sessions using a ground-breaking theatre-in-the-round format, adapted for a live televised audience. The first time use of the staging device was memorialized in the book, The Selling of the President 1968 by Joe McGinniss. The producer of these Nixon "Man in the Arena" [7] programs was Roger Ailes,[8] who later went to on start Fox News. Ailes' innovation of the theatre-in-the-round format for candidate forums became the blueprint for modern "town hall" candidate formats and even multiple-candidate debates.

Elvis Presley's '68 Comeback Special TV program was performed with the musicians seated using a raised staging in-the-round format.

When an arena staging was conceived for the progressive-rock group Yes by their tour manager Jim Halley in the mid-1970s, it prompted a redesign of rock concerts and venue seating arrangements.

The politics of the round edit

The politics of theatre-in-the-round were explored most deliberately by RG Gregory. In his view the lit space of a proscenium arch is analogous to the seat of power; the audience adopts the role of passive receivers. In traditional theatre design, maximum care is taken with sight lines in order to ensure that the actor can engage every member of the audience at the same time.

However, once removed from the picture frame of the arch, the actors are compelled to turn their back on some members of the audience and so necessarily lose exclusive command of the acting space. All members of the audience can see the actor, but the actor can no longer see all of them. At this point, in order for the play to function, the audience themselves must be allowed to become key conductors of the meaning of the performance.

Some, like the writer Mick Fealty, have stressed a close analogy between Gregory's description of the rudimentary dynamics of theater-in-the-round with the network effect of Internet-based communication in comparison to traditional broadcast and marketing channels.

Arena stage archive edit

George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia is home to the largest arena stage archive and contains material from the theatre's 50-year history. Included in the collection are photographs, production notebooks, scrapbooks, playbills, oral histories and handwritten correspondence. According to their website, the total volume is 260 cubic feet (7.4 m3) or 440 feet (130 m) linear and is housed in the Fenwick Library.

Notable examples edit

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In popular culture edit

  • In the novel The Prestige by Christopher Priest, the magician Rupert Angier courts controversy by writing that stage magic should be performed "in the round" rather than in theatres with a proscenium arch.
  • The English progressive rock band Yes were the first rock-era group to perform "in the round" during their 1978–79 Tormato tour. The band also performed using a round, rotating stage during portions of their Drama and Union tours in 1980 and 1991, respectively.
  • The second tour of the global country-pop superstar Shania Twain, the Up! Tour (2003/04), had a stage configuration in the style of "in the round". The tour was one of the most successful tours of 2004, and served to promote the RIAA diamond certified album, "Up!" (2002).
  • The Into the Millennium Tour by the American boy band Backstreet Boys featured an "in the round" stage. The tour, which began in 1999 and ended in March 2000, is one of the most successful of all time.
  • British rock band Def Leppard played "in the round" for several tours in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Their 1989 live VHS release was entitled Live: In the Round, in Your Face. "In-the-round is an incredibly, insanely aerobic kind of thing…" remarked singer Joe Elliott, who gave up drinking on the Hysteria tour to cope with the physical demands. "You can't stand still; you've got to keep moving. The [other members of the band] had identical microphones on either side of the stage, so they could stand still for a little bit. I had to keep moving."[24]
  • To evoke a three-ring circus, American singer Britney Spears used an in-the-round setting for her 2009 The Circus Starring Britney Spears tour.
  • Stand-up comedians have performed specials "in the round," such as Dane Cook: Vicious Circle and Louis C.K.'s Oh My God.
  • The Spice Girls used a circular, in-the-round stage for their Christmas in Spiceworld tour in 1999.
  • U2's 360° Tour used a very large circular stage.
  • The Dixie Chicks' Top of the World Tour used a circular stage, except in venues where it was an end stage.
  • Metallica have used a rectangular, diamond or oval-shaped stage in the center of the arena, beginning with their 1991 Wherever We May Roam Tour. On different tours, they have included an area within the stage, called "the snake pit", where audience members can watch the show. Their 2012 European Black Album Tour used this format.[25]
  • In the musical The Producers Max Bialystock remarks that he invented "theater in the square".
  • Roger Waters' 2022 This Is Not a Drill tour is performed in the round with a large cross-shaped stage. Hanging overhead is a cross-shaped video screen arrangement that matches the shape of the stage.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Tate, Cassandra. 200255. "Curtain rises on Seattle's new Penthouse Theatre on May 16, 1947." August 8, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Alienation Effect in Encyclopedia Britannica online.
  3. ^ The book "An Actor Prepares" was first published in 1936 and is the first volume of the translations of Constantin Stanislavski's books on acting, which were published as a trilogy in English, though originally meant to be published as two books in Russian.
  4. ^ Jones, Margo. 1951. Theatre-in-the-Round. Rinehard & Company, Inc.; Sec. Pr. edition
  5. ^ Altenberg, Roger. 1964. A Historical Study of Gilmore Brown's Fair-oaks Play box: 1924–1927 March 27, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Jones, Margo. 1951. Theatre-in-the-Round, p. 38
  7. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the : "Man in the Arena Part 1". YouTube.
  8. ^ "Roger Ailes, Nixon's Television Man »". 18 May 2017.
  9. ^ "La Boite Theatre (entry 602171)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  10. ^ "Roundhouse Theatre". Queensland University of Technology. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
  11. ^ "Le Théâtre en Rond". Théatre en rond. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
  12. ^ Hale Centre Theatre in Arizona June 20, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 2014-06-20
  13. ^ Broadway Sacramento October 28, 2016, at the Wayback Machine at The Wells Fargo Pavilion
  14. ^ "Welcome to the Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts". Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  15. ^ "Facilities". Smith College. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  16. ^ "Mark A. Chapman Theatre". Kansas State University School of Music, Theatre, and Dance. 12 October 2019. from the original on 12 October 2019. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
  17. ^ Cape Cod Melody Tent February 8, 2007, at the Wayback Machine official web site
  18. ^ South Shore Music Circus November 29, 2006, at the Wayback Machine official web site
  19. ^ . Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  20. ^ Theatre in the Round October 18, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Minneapolis, official web site
  21. ^ "About Seton Hall Theatre". Seton Hall University. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  22. ^ Plaza Theatre Company April 14, 2016, at the Wayback Machine official web site
  23. ^ Artisan Center Theatre October 16, 2016, at the Wayback Machine official web site
  24. ^ Wall, Mick (May 2018). "A wild ride over stony ground". Classic Rock. No. 248. p. 36.
  25. ^ . Metallica.com. Archived from the original on 10 November 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2014.

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In the round redirects here For other uses see In the round disambiguation A theatre in the round arena theatre or central staging is a space for theatre in which the audience surrounds the stage The stage of the Cockpit Theatre London has seating on four sides with a capacity of 240 Theatre in the round was common in ancient theatre particularly that of Greece and Rome but was not widely explored again until the latter half of the 20th century The Glenn Hughes Penthouse Theatre in Seattle Washington was the first theatre in the round venue built in the United States It first opened on May 19 1940 with a production of Spring Dance a comedy by playwright Philip Barry 1 The 160 seat theatre is located on the campus of the University of Washington in Seattle and is on the National Register of Historic Places In 1947 Margo Jones established America s first professional theatre in the round company when she opened her Theater 47 in Dallas The stage design as developed by Margo Jones was used by directors in later years for such well known shows as Fun Home the original stage production of Man of La Mancha and all plays staged at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre demolished in the 1960s including Arthur Miller s autobiographical After the Fall Such theatres had previously existed in colleges but not in professional theatre buildings Theater in the round is a particularly appropriate setting for staging of dramas using Bertolt Brecht s alienation effect 2 which stands in opposition to the more traditional Stanislovski technique 3 in drama Whereas the Stanislovski school of acting attempts to immerse the audience so deeply in belief of its characters that they can imagine themselves as the character the Brechtian alienation effect deliberately tries to remind the audience that this is a fictional representation Alienation techniques include tactics as obvious as displaying placards or posters around the set and visibility of lighting fixtures In round theatres alienation may be achieved by partially lighting the audience so that people are always reminded that they are in a theatre watching a drama Contents 1 Stage configuration 2 History 3 Uses in television and concert halls 4 The politics of the round 5 Arena stage archive 6 Notable examples 6 1 Australia 6 2 Canada 6 3 France 6 4 Hong Kong 6 5 Japan 6 6 Malta 6 7 Poland 6 8 United Kingdom 6 8 1 Greater London 6 8 2 Greater Manchester 6 8 3 Elsewhere 6 9 United States 6 9 1 Arizona 6 9 2 California 6 9 3 Colorado 6 9 4 District of Columbia 6 9 5 Florida 6 9 6 Illinois 6 9 7 Indiana 6 9 8 Iowa 6 9 9 Kansas 6 9 10 Maryland 6 9 11 Massachusetts 6 9 12 Minnesota 6 9 13 Missouri 6 9 14 Nevada 6 9 15 New Jersey 6 9 16 New York 6 9 17 North Carolina 6 9 18 Ohio 6 9 19 Oregon 6 9 20 Pennsylvania 6 9 21 South Carolina 6 9 22 Tennessee 6 9 23 Texas 6 9 24 Utah 6 9 25 Virginia 6 9 26 Washington 6 9 27 Wisconsin 7 In popular culture 8 See also 9 ReferencesStage configuration editThe stage is always in the centre with the audience arranged on all sides and is most commonly rectangular circular diamond or triangular Actors may enter and exit through the audience from different directions or from below the stage The stage is usually on an even level with or below the audience in a pit or arena formation This configuration lends itself to high energy productions and anything that requires audience participation It is favoured by producers of classical theatre and it has continued as a creative alternative to the more common proscenium format In effect theatre in the round removes the fourth wall and brings the actor into the same space as the audience This is often problematic for proscenium or end stage trained actors who are taught that they must never turn their backs to the audience something that is unavoidable in this format However it allows for strong and direct engagement with the audience It is also employed when theatrical performances are presented in non traditional spaces such as restaurants public areas such as fairs or festivals or street theater Set design is often minimal in order not to obscure the audience s view of the performance History editTheatre in the round was common in ancient theatre particularly that of Greece and Rome but was not widely explored again until the latter half of the 20th century In Margo Jones survey of theatre in the round 4 the first two sources of central staging in the United States she identified were the productions by Azubah Latham and Milton Smith at Columbia University dating from 1914 and T Earl Pardoe s productions at Brigham Young University in 1922 In 1924 Gilmor Brown founded the Fair Oaks Playbox in Pasadena California an important early practitioner of central staging in addition to other stage configurations that it pioneered in its advent of flexible staging 5 As Indicated by Jones 6 the centrally staged productions of the Fair Oaks Playbox were followed approximately eight years later by the work of Glenn Hughes in his Seattle Penthouse Stephen Joseph was the first to popularise the form in the United Kingdom from the US in the 1950s and set up theatres in the round in Newcastle under Lyme and the Studio Theatre in Scarborough The current theatre opened in 1996 is known as the Stephen Joseph Theatre Joseph was reputed to have once rhetorically asked Why must authorities stand with their back to a wall His answer was So nobody can knife them from behind Sam Walters set up an impromptu performance space in the upstairs of the Orange Tree pub in Richmond London in the early 1970s and subsequently moved across the road to a permanent Orange Tree Theatre In 1972 RG Gregory set up the Word and Action theatre company in Dorset in England to work exclusively in theatre in the round Gregory sought to create a grammar that would enable actors to maximise the form s potential for connecting with the audience both as individuals and as a collective All Word and Action productions were performed in normal lighting conditions without costumes or makeup Uses in television and concert halls editThe innovations of Margo Jones were an obvious influence on Albert McCleery when he created his Cameo Theatre for television in 1950 Continuing until 1955 McCleery offered dramas seen against pure black backgrounds instead of walls of a set This enabled cameras in the darkness to pick up shots from any position Richard Nixon s 1968 U S Presidential campaign staged nine live televised question and answer sessions using a ground breaking theatre in the round format adapted for a live televised audience The first time use of the staging device was memorialized in the book The Selling of the President 1968 by Joe McGinniss The producer of these Nixon Man in the Arena 7 programs was Roger Ailes 8 who later went to on start Fox News Ailes innovation of the theatre in the round format for candidate forums became the blueprint for modern town hall candidate formats and even multiple candidate debates Elvis Presley s 68 Comeback Special TV program was performed with the musicians seated using a raised staging in the round format When an arena staging was conceived for the progressive rock group Yes by their tour manager Jim Halley in the mid 1970s it prompted a redesign of rock concerts and venue seating arrangements The politics of the round editThe politics of theatre in the round were explored most deliberately by RG Gregory In his view the lit space of a proscenium arch is analogous to the seat of power the audience adopts the role of passive receivers In traditional theatre design maximum care is taken with sight lines in order to ensure that the actor can engage every member of the audience at the same time However once removed from the picture frame of the arch the actors are compelled to turn their back on some members of the audience and so necessarily lose exclusive command of the acting space All members of the audience can see the actor but the actor can no longer see all of them At this point in order for the play to function the audience themselves must be allowed to become key conductors of the meaning of the performance Some like the writer Mick Fealty have stressed a close analogy between Gregory s description of the rudimentary dynamics of theater in the round with the network effect of Internet based communication in comparison to traditional broadcast and marketing channels Arena stage archive editGeorge Mason University in Fairfax Virginia is home to the largest arena stage archive and contains material from the theatre s 50 year history Included in the collection are photographs production notebooks scrapbooks playbills oral histories and handwritten correspondence According to their website the total volume is 260 cubic feet 7 4 m3 or 440 feet 130 m linear and is housed in the Fenwick Library Notable examples editAustralia edit La Boite Theatre Building Brisbane no longer used as a theatre 9 Roundhouse Theatre Brisbane replacing the La Boite Theatre Building 10 Canada edit Globe Theatre Regina Saskatchewan Seton Auditorium Mount Saint Vincent University Halifax Nova Scotia France edit L Europeen Paris 11 Theatre en Rond Sassenage and Fresnes Hong Kong edit Hong Kong Coliseum Hung Hom Bay Kowloon Theater in the Wild Hong Kong Disneyland Penny s Bay Lantau Island Japan edit The Enchanted Tiki Room Stitch Presents Aloha e Komo Mai Tokyo Disney Resort Urayasu Chiba Malta edit Saint James Cavalier Theatre Valletta Poland edit Theater Scena STU Krakow United Kingdom edit Greater London edit sohoplace Soho The Playhouse Theatre Westminster after renovation to Kit Kat Club in 2021 Cockpit Theatre Marylebone Orange Tree Theatre Richmond Pembroke Theatre Croydon closed 1962 Greater Manchester edit Octagon Theatre Bolton Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester Elsewhere edit Crucible Theatre Sheffield Most famous for hosting the World Snooker Championships since 1977 Blue Orange Theatre Birmingham Tobacco Factory Theatres Bristol The Castle Theatre Wellingborough can be in the round or normal theatre format New Vic Theatre Newcastle under Lyme The Round Newcastle upon Tyne closed 2008 Stephen Joseph Theatre Scarborough The Dukes Lancaster Everyman Theatre Liverpool Pyramid Theatre Leeds University Union Leeds formerly Raven Theatre United States edit Arizona edit NAU Theatre Flagstaff Arizona Celebrity Theatre Phoenix Arizona Hale Centre Theatre Gilbert Arizona 12 Theater Works Peoria Arizona 1 California edit UC Davis Health Pavilion Sacramento California Home of Broadway Sacramento s Broadway At Music Circus 13 The Rock Forum Anaheim California Glendale Centre Theatre Glendale California Golden Bough Playhouse Carmel by the Sea California Marian Theatre Santa Maria California 2 Solvang Festival Theater Solvang California Old Globe Theatre San Diego California Cassius Carter Centre Stage demolished 2008 Cheryl and Harvey White Theatre Circle Star Theater San Carlos California torn down for office buildings Riverside Community Players Riverside California built in 1953 Valley Music Theater Los Angeles California built 1963 demolished 2007 Walt Disney s Enchanted Tiki Room Disneyland Anaheim California Colorado edit The Space Theatre Denver Colorado District of Columbia edit Arena Stage Washington D C Florida edit Walt Disney s Enchanted Tiki Room previously Tropical Serenade Adventureland Magic Kingdom Walt Disney World Bay Lake Florida From 1998 to 2011 The Enchanted Tiki Room Under New Management operated in this attraction s space Stitch s Great Escape Tomorrowland Magic Kingdom Walt Disney World Bay Lake Florida operated from 2004 to 2018 space currently unused Preceding attractions include Flight to the Moon 1971 1975 Mission to Mars 1975 1993 and the ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter 1994 2003 Festival of the Lion King Disney s Animal Kingdom Walt Disney World Bay Lake Florida Illinois edit Marriott Theatre Lincolnshire Illinois 3 Mill Run Playhouse Niles Illinois demolished 1984 Richmond Hill Theatre Geneseo Illinois 4 Cornstock Theatre Peoria Illinois 5 Indiana edit Wagon Wheel Theatre Warsaw Indiana 14 Iowa edit Flanagan Studio Theater Grinnell Iowa 15 Kansas edit Mark A Chapman Theatre Kansas State University Manhattan Kansas 16 Maryland edit Colonial Players Annapolis Maryland Shady Grove Music Fair Gaithersburg Maryland Demolished Painters Mill Music Fair Owings Mills Maryland Demolished 1991 Massachusetts edit North Shore Music Theatre Beverly Massachusetts 6 Cape Cod Melody Tent Hyannis Massachusetts 17 South Shore Music Circus Cohasset Massachusetts 18 The Little Theatre Newton Balch Arena Theater Medford Massachusetts 19 Minnesota edit Theatre in the Round Players Minneapolis Minnesota 20 Guthrie Theater Minneapolis Minnesota Rarig Center Arena Minneapolis Minnesota Arena Theater Northfield Minnesota Built 1967 mothballed 2011 Missouri edit Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts Kansas City Missouri Nevada edit Le Reve Theater inside Wynn Las Vegas Las Vegas Nevada opened 2005 closed 2020 LOVE Theatre inside The Mirage Las Vegas Nevada New Jersey edit Seton Hall Theatre in the Round South Orange New Jersey 21 New York edit Circle Repertory Company New York City New York The Irish Classical Theatre in Buffalo New York NYCB Theatre at Westbury Westbury New York Circle in the Square Theatre in New York City New York can also be configured as a thrust stage Arena Theatre at University at Albany SUNY in Albany New York North Carolina edit Paul Green Theatre Chapel Hill North Carolina Ohio edit The Front Row Highland Heights Ohio Demolished 1994 Porthouse Theatre Kent Ohio Oregon edit The Thomas Theater Ashland Oregon one of the theaters used for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Pennsylvania edit F Otto Haas Stage Philadelphia Pennsylvania Valley Forge Music Fair Devon Pennsylvania demolished 1996 South Carolina edit Longstreet Theatre Columbia South Carolina Tennessee edit Ula Love Doughty Carousel Theatre Knoxville Tennessee Texas edit Plaza Theatre Company Cleburne Texas 22 Artisan Center Theater Hurst 23 Whisenhunt Stage Austin Texas Casa Manana Fort Worth Texas converted to thrust stage in 2003 Theatre 47 Dallas Texas Mary Moody Northen Theatre Austin Texas Arena Theater Houston Texas Utah edit Hale Centre Theatre Sandy Utah West Valley Performing Arts Center West Valley City Utah Virginia edit The Barksdale Theater in Richmond Virginia Washington edit Glenn Hughes Penthouse Theatre Seattle Washington ACT Theatre Seattle Washington Wisconsin edit Fireside Dinner Theater Fort Atkinson Wisconsin Melody Top Theatre Milwaukee Wisconsin 1963 86 In popular culture editIn the novel The Prestige by Christopher Priest the magician Rupert Angier courts controversy by writing that stage magic should be performed in the round rather than in theatres with a proscenium arch The English progressive rock band Yes were the first rock era group to perform in the round during their 1978 79 Tormato tour The band also performed using a round rotating stage during portions of their Drama and Union tours in 1980 and 1991 respectively The second tour of the global country pop superstar Shania Twain the Up Tour 2003 04 had a stage configuration in the style of in the round The tour was one of the most successful tours of 2004 and served to promote the RIAA diamond certified album Up 2002 The Into the Millennium Tour by the American boy band Backstreet Boys featured an in the round stage The tour which began in 1999 and ended in March 2000 is one of the most successful of all time British rock band Def Leppard played in the round for several tours in the late 1980s and early 1990s Their 1989 live VHS release was entitled Live In the Round in Your Face In the round is an incredibly insanely aerobic kind of thing remarked singer Joe Elliott who gave up drinking on the Hysteria tour to cope with the physical demands You can t stand still you ve got to keep moving The other members of the band had identical microphones on either side of the stage so they could stand still for a little bit I had to keep moving 24 To evoke a three ring circus American singer Britney Spears used an in the round setting for her 2009 The Circus Starring Britney Spears tour Stand up comedians have performed specials in the round such as Dane Cook Vicious Circle and Louis C K s Oh My God The Spice Girls used a circular in the round stage for their Christmas in Spiceworld tour in 1999 U2 s 360 Tour used a very large circular stage The Dixie Chicks Top of the World Tour used a circular stage except in venues where it was an end stage Metallica have used a rectangular diamond or oval shaped stage in the center of the arena beginning with their 1991 Wherever We May Roam Tour On different tours they have included an area within the stage called the snake pit where audience members can watch the show Their 2012 European Black Album Tour used this format 25 In the musical The Producers Max Bialystock remarks that he invented theater in the square Roger Waters 2022 This Is Not a Drill tour is performed in the round with a large cross shaped stage Hanging overhead is a cross shaped video screen arrangement that matches the shape of the stage See also editArena The Castle of Perseverance Thrust stageReferences edit Tate Cassandra 200255 Curtain rises on Seattle s new Penthouse Theatre on May 16 1947 Archived August 8 2016 at the Wayback Machine Alienation Effect in Encyclopedia Britannica online The book An Actor Prepares was first published in 1936 and is the first volume of the translations of Constantin Stanislavski s books on acting which were published as a trilogy in English though originally meant to be published as two books in Russian Jones Margo 1951 Theatre in the Round Rinehard amp Company Inc Sec Pr edition Altenberg Roger 1964 A Historical Study of Gilmore Brown s Fair oaks Play box 1924 1927 Archived March 27 2016 at the Wayback Machine Jones Margo 1951 Theatre in the Round p 38 Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine Man in the Arena Part 1 YouTube Roger Ailes Nixon s Television Man 18 May 2017 La Boite Theatre entry 602171 Queensland Heritage Register Queensland Heritage Council Retrieved 13 April 2015 Roundhouse Theatre Queensland University of Technology Retrieved 5 January 2015 Le Theatre en Rond Theatre en rond Retrieved 20 June 2014 Hale Centre Theatre in Arizona Archived June 20 2013 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 2014 06 20 Broadway Sacramento Archived October 28 2016 at the Wayback Machine at The Wells Fargo Pavilion Welcome to the Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts Retrieved 13 April 2015 Facilities Smith College Retrieved 13 April 2015 Mark A Chapman Theatre Kansas State University School of Music Theatre and Dance 12 October 2019 Archived from the original on 12 October 2019 Retrieved 12 October 2019 Cape Cod Melody Tent Archived February 8 2007 at the Wayback Machine official web site South Shore Music Circus Archived November 29 2006 at the Wayback Machine official web site Balch Arena Theater at Tufts University Archived from the original on 17 October 2015 Retrieved 13 April 2015 Theatre in the Round Archived October 18 2016 at the Wayback Machine Minneapolis official web site About Seton Hall Theatre Seton Hall University Retrieved 13 April 2015 Plaza Theatre Company Archived April 14 2016 at the Wayback Machine official web site Artisan Center Theatre Archived October 16 2016 at the Wayback Machine official web site Wall Mick May 2018 A wild ride over stony ground Classic Rock No 248 p 36 News The Snake Pit Returns Metallica com Archived from the original on 10 November 2013 Retrieved 20 June 2014 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Theatre in the round amp oldid 1220543843, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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