FDA News

We are always working on new projects and trying to support the field in a variety of ways, and some of our completed work finds itself in the news. These are the latest stories.

The Shed: Q&A with Fisher Dachs Associates

This article was originally published on Live Design
By Ellen Lampert-Greaux

[Podcast] Offscript: Theatre Architecture, ‘Disgraced’ in China

Full original publication on AmericanTheatre.org

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.

The Neutrality Trap

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?

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