Expert brings proposed downtown arts center into focus
by Lawrence Cosentino
A national theater expert laid out the most detailed vision yet for Lansing’s proposed downtown performing arts center last week, moving a heavy ball carried by three mayors over 20 years a few more inches down the field of dreams…
Read the full article, originally published on the Lansing City Pulse
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On this week’s episode, editors Rob Weinert-Kendt and Diep Tran are joined by Joshua Dachs, the founder of theatre planning and design firm Fisher Dachs Associates. They discuss the recent controversies around the Public Theater’s Julius Caesar and theatre critic Hedy Weiss, and what each case says about free speech and censorship. Then Dachs talks about his essay about the cyclical history of theatre design, which anchors AT‘s July/Aug. ’17 theme issue about theatre architecture.
By Joshua Dachs
(originally written for, and publishing in, American Theatre Magazine)
The great minds of 20th-century theatre wanted to free our thinking about theatre spaces. How did we end up in a black box?
