Frank Gehry News

Signature Theatre will open Signature Center, its new, permanent home designed by Frank Gehry, in February 2012. Spanning an entire city block at 42nd Street between Dyer and 10th Avenue, Signature Center is the largest non-profit performing arts center to be built in New York since Lincoln Center opened more than 50 years ago. Featuring three intimate theatres, a studio theatre, rehearsal studio, and a public café and bookstore, the Center will be both a theatre community hub and a neighborhood destination, and has been designed to foster interaction among playwrights, collaborators, and the public. The $66 million project is being funded through a public-private partnership and will be staffed by more than 400 people annually.

Signature Theatre announced today that John and Amy Griffin have donated $5 million in support of Signature Center, the Company's new, permanent home opening in February 2012. Spanning an entire city block at 42nd Street between Dyer and 10th Avenue, the Frank Gehry-designed Signature Center is the largest non-profit performing arts center to be built in New York City since Lincoln Center opened more than 50 years ago. Featuring three intimate theatres, a studio theatre, rehearsal studio, and a public café and bookstore, the Center will be both a theatre community hub and a neighborhood destination, and has been designed to foster interaction among playwrights, artistic collaborators, and the public.

Single tickets for the 2011/12 season at Walt Disney Concert Hall are on sale Sunday, August 21 at 10am.

Completed nearly 100 years ago, the canvas Painting with White Border (Bild mit weissem Rand, May 1913) by Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was inspired by a trip the artist took to Moscow in fall 1912.

Single tickets for the 2011/12 season at Walt Disney Concert Hall are on sale Sunday, August 21 at 10am.

For the second edition of stillspotting nyc, a two-year multidisciplinary project that takes the Guggenheim Museum's programming out into the streets of New York City's boroughs, Estonian composer Arvo Pärt and U.S. and Norway-based architecture firm Snøhetta create urban soundscapes around Lower Manhattan that explore the relationship between space and sound.

Signature Theatre Company will launch the theatre's new home, Signature Center, with Athol Fugard as its inaugural Residency One playwright. Residency One is Signature's core one year playwright-in-residence program that produces a series of plays from the body of work of one accomplished writer.

Actor/comedian Brad Garrett will teach a six-week Sitcom Intensive at The Acting Studio at Edgemar Center for the Arts on six consecutive Tuesday evenings starting July 26, 2011 through August 30.

Signature Theatre Company's production of Tony Kushner's THE ILLUSION, directed by Michael Mayer will close on Sunday, July 17, 2011.

Signature Theatre Company's production of Tony Kushner's THE ILLUSION, directed by Michael Mayer begins its final week of performances tonight, July 12. The production, originally slated to run through July 10, 2011, was extended an additional week due to popular demand and will run through Sunday, July 17, 2011.

The ninth annual Bard SummerScape presents The Wild Duck ('Vildanden'), a masterpiece of poetic realism by the father of modern drama, Henrik Ibsen.

The ninth annual Bard SummerScape presents The Wild Duck ('Vildanden'), a masterpiece of poetic realism by the father of modern drama, Henrik Ibsen.

The ninth annual Bard SummerScape presents The Wild Duck ("Vildanden"), a masterpiece of poetic realism by the father of modern drama, Henrik Ibsen.

Actor/comedian Brad Garrett will teach a six-week Sitcom Intensive at The Acting Studio at Edgemar Center for the Arts on six consecutive Tuesday evenings starting July 26, 2011 through August 30.