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.

National Theatre - Niš

The National Theatre in Nis is located in the theater Sindjelic Square in Nis, Serbia.

History claims that Niš had a theater in the fourth century. The foundations of this theater have not yet been found, but its known roughly where they were. Niš was out of the theater for full thirteen centuries. 

The first known theatrical event was recorded in 1883 on a poster for one of the performances of the traveling troupe, which performed conveniently, on the anniversary of marriage of King Milan and Queen Natalia Obrenovic.

National Theatre in Niš.

The postwar period

The postwar period was marked by emulation theater repertoire and the ideological and aesthetic currents of the National Theatre in Belgrade, but has already played shows in 1949 have revealed the high creative potential of the theater, who came to the fore nurturing their own repertoire policy. The fifties of interest extends to domestic and foreign literature, which can be an incentive for greater stravalačku initiative and creativity of the artistic ensemble.

Today

Repertoire despite the classic work, remained open to works of modern and avantgarde authors, both foreign and domestic. New orientation theater resulted in unusual performances that have participated three times in the official competition at the prestigious Festival of Male and experimental scenes in Sarajevo (MESS), five times in official competition at the Sterija Theatre Festival and once at BITEF.

In February 2008, the theater received a statuette Joakim Vujic for outstanding contribution to the development of theater art in Serbia.

National Theatre - Leskovac

With short interruptions theater life in Leskovac has lasted for 124 years.

The first performance in Leskovac, was played by diletansko family "Civic Theatre Jug Bogdan" in 1896. Author of "The battle of Kosovo" is Matija Ban. This theater troupe formed in 1896 Radoje Domanović, professor of Gymnasium. Theatrical family ceased to operate in 1898 leaving Domanovića from Leskovac. From 1898 until 1926 in Leskovac occasional guest appearances by theater group from Belgrade, Nis, Skopje, Zajecar, Sabac. In Leskovec in 1926 established professional theater called "Leskovačko City Theatre". On 10th October 1926. shows the first performance of "Death of Mother Jugovic", played in the hall of the hotel "Paris". This theater was very quickly stopped with work, but already on 18th November 1934 in Leskovac-based "Academic Theatre", led by Bora Dimitrijevic, a 9 January 1935 shows the first performance of "ordinary man" by B. Nušića. 

"Academic Theatre" worked until February 1941 year. After the liberation of Leskovac 23rd October 1944 established drama group that later transformed into the National Theatre. From 3rd October 1970, the National Theatre does, only in Yugoslavia, as a theater without a cash register, so the idea of ​​realizing director Dusan Mihajlovic.

The entrance Of National Theatre - Leskovac.

In 2014 was ended renovation of theater building. Theatre has a capacity of 278 seats.