Bernhard Link Theatrical Llc history

At the invitation of two theatre groups Kiesler went to the United States in 1926.

Beginning about 1930, however, with the productions of Nikolay Pavlovich Okhlopkov at his Realistic Theatre in Moscow, theatre-in-the-round began to gain favour with stage designers who were dissatisfied with the limitations of the proscenium.

Congress had created the Federal Theatre Project in 1935, under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), to provide work for theater professionals during the Great Depression.

The unit's first production, Noah, a whimsical gospel chorus musical, opened on April 28, 1936.

Poster of Lysistrata, The Negro Repertory Company, 1937

The year 1938 saw 20 percent cuts to the Federal Theatre Project's budget.

Then, on June 30, 1939, Congress eliminated funding entirely and closed the Project nationwide.

Historian Quintard Taylor estimates that in Seattle as many as 200 persons or about 5 percent of the black population in 1940 Seattle worked on various Negro Repertory Company productions during its existence.

Kiesler’s “Endless House” was never built full-scale, but a large concrete model was displayed at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, in 1960.

27, 1965, New York, N.Y., United States), Austrian-born American architect, sculptor, and stage designer, best known for his “Endless House,” a womblike, free-form structure.

Inside the Endless House (1966), written as a journal, is basically an account of Kiesler’s artistic life.

Social Security by Andrew Bergman, Directed by David Hilder (produced in February 1995, remounted in July 1995)

In 1997, the EDCJCC moved into its current space, the Irwin P. Edlavitch Building, at 1529 Sixteenth Street, NW, which housed a newly built 238-seat proscenium theater, named for Aaron and Cecile Goldman.