Salle Richelieu

The Salle Richelieu, also known as the Comédie Française, was built in the late 1600s.

The grand staircase is lined with busts of important figures from the theater's past -- the bust of French playwright Corneille is rather worn, due to the belief that touching it will bring good luck.

"It's the archetypal theater -- a womb-like curve of red plush and gold," says professor Jan Clarke at the International Federation for Theater Research.

"It's also a living museum, containing objects, artifacts, paintings and sculptures of huge interest for the history of French theater, including the armchair actor Jean-Baptiste Poquelin used in 'Le Malade Imaginaire' just hours before his death."

National Noh Theatre

-opened in Sendagaya, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan in September 1983. The auditorium seats 591 for performances of Noh and Kyōgen, and there is also a rehearsal stage, exhibition area, lecture room, and reference library.

Forget cement and plasterboard -- Japan's Noh theater was constructed in 1983 from 400-year-old bishu-hinoki cypress trees. 

It's open on three sides and the seating spreads out from the stage in a fan shape.Despite the traditional elements there's plenty of tech -- each seat has a personal subtitling system that can be changed from Japanese to English at the touch of a button.

Noh (meaning "skill" or "talent") is a form of traditional Japanese musical drama, and plays often last all day

BAM Harvey theater

The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is a major performing arts venue in Brooklyn, New York City, known as a center for progressive and avant garde performance. It presented its first performance in 1861 and began operations in its present location in 1908.

Today, BAM has a reputation as a leader in presenting "cutting edge" performance and has grown into an urban arts center which focuses on both international arts presentation and local community needs. Its purpose is to provide an environment in which its audiences – annually, more than 550,000 people – can experience a broad array of aesthetic and cultural programs. From 1999 to 2014, BAM was headed by Karen Brooks Hopkins, President, and Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer. Katy Clark is now president, succeeding Hopkins who retired in spring 2015.

Balboa Theatre

The Balboa Theatre was built in 1924 and named after Spanish explorer Vasco Nuñez de Balboa -- the first European to discover the Pacific Ocean.

The property fell into disrepair, but in 2002 a major restoration began.

A replica of the theater's sign, depicting Vasco's ship, was created using original colors identified from photographs, and stencils were used to painstakingly recreate the tapestry design that once adorned the walls.

"After a $26 million renovation, this elegant vaudeville theater has been fully restored, complete with its one-of-a-kind, fully operational interior waterfalls," says Ken Stein at the League of Historic American Theaters.

"If you could sum up the beauty of the City of San Diego in a single design, this would be it."

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

- is the complex housing a reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse in the London Borough of Southwark, on the south bank of the River Thames that was originally built in 1599, destroyed by fire in 1613, rebuilt in 1614, and then demolished in 1644.

The name of the Globe supposedly alludes to the Latin tag totus mundus agit histrionem, in turn derived from quod fere totus mundus exerceat histrionem—"because all the world is a playground"—from Petronius, which had wide circulation in England in the Burbages' time. Totus mundus agit histrionem was, according to this explanation, therefore adopted as the theatre's motto. Another allusion, familiar to the contemporary theatre-goer, would have been to Teatrum Mundi, a meditation by the twelfth-century classicist and philosopher John of Salisbury, in his Policraticus, book three. In either case, there would have been a familiar understanding of the classical derivation without the adoption of a formal motto.

It seems likely that the link between the supposed motto and the Globe was made only later, originating with the industrious early Shakespeare biographer William Oldys, who claimed as his source a private manuscript to which he once had access. This was repeated in good faith by his literary executor George Steevens, but the tale is now thought "suspicious".

The Globe operates without any public subsidy and generates £21 million in revenue per year.

National Theatre ''Sterija'' - Vršac

In Vrsac theatrical life lasts for more than two centuries. In 1761 he erected the Great Serbian magistrate and more than 100 years it served as a permanent theater building.

The first theatrical performances in Vrsac are performed by a theatrical family from Timisoara around 1770. Timisoara is the administrative and cultural center of South Banat.

Here were various theater troupes from Austria, Hungary, Romania, Italy, Germany, and from the Serbian theater Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad was established in 1861.

Ministry of Education in 1920 to headed by Branislav Nusic, decides that ин Vrsac establish a professional theater. At the session of the city, held on 24 December 1920, a decision was made on the establishment of the Provincial Theatre Banat "STERIJA". The premiere on January 22, 1921 officially started operations. It took only three years.

To mark the 200th anniversary of the presentation of the first theatrical performances in the Serbian language, in 1993 organized a festival "Vršac Autumn Theatre" founded by the Vrsac. The Festival play the most important and the best theatrical work in the season, both in the former Serbia and Montenegro and in the current Serbia.

National Theatre ''Sterija''.

City Theatre - Jagodina

The beginnings of theatrical life in Jagodina were recorded in 1859, when it was founded Jagodinska dilettante family. In the next fifty years in Jagodina acted many theater groups, all were short-lived, and often toured and then very active traveling theater troupe. at the end of 1944 has established the first professional theater in Jagodina, with actors from Belgrade, which was six months ago. 13 September 1947 establishing the city amateur theater, merging Youth, Trade Union and Disability theater. Municipal budget for 1952 provided some funds for the theater activities enabling to operate as a semi-professional theater. Decision of the People's Committee in 1953 semiprofessional theater becomes officially professionally City National Theatre, and in the next few years again became an amateur theater. Then it was the period when the theater did not work. Since 1975, the theater is working continuously.

Theater registered as Citizens Association.

Since 2007 the theater has a permanent repertoire and Thursday is the day of his execution in Jagodina.