News-Journal Center - Daytona, Florida

The News-Journal Center was the dream of Daytona's Seaside Music Theater, a professional company spcializing in musical theatre performance. The owner/editor of Daytona's News-Journal, a member of the Seaside Board of Directors and a theatre artist himself, took up this dream determined to make it a reality. Under this leadership and business understanding, he and the Seaside Music Theater staff forged a series of partnerships that are making the News-Journal Center a dream come true. The project includes over 103,000 sq. ft. of art spaces, an 862-seat proscenium theatre, a 265-seat flexible thrust theatre and a visual art gallery.

Budget:	$28.5 million
Seating:	862 Main Gall, 265 Flexible Thrust
Opening:	Projected for May, 2006
Architects:	Baker Barrios Architects, Inc., Orlando, Florida
Acousticians:	BAI, Austin, Texas

 The University of Texas at Tyler - Tyler, Texas

A new performing arts facility for the campus as part of a complex of spaces designed for the fine arts programs of the University. The new facility will house music, communications, theatre, and art. The complex includes: the 2,000 seat R. Don Cowan main performance space that can support professional music, opera, drama, and dance productions; a 200 seat multi-media lecture/teaching theatre for the art program; the 200 seat Braithwaite Recital Hall; and totally new music teaching facility spaces.

Budget:	$18.5 million
Seating:	2000 Main Hall, 200 Lecture/Teaching Theatre, 200 Recital Hall
Opening:	August, 1997
Architects:	C/A Alliance Architects, Inc., Houston, Texas
Acousticians:	Boner & Associates, Inc., Austin, Texas

The project is a provincial governmental center for culture and performance. The 2,500 seat main hall will serve both governmental meetings as a Delegate Hall and as an Opera Hall.  The main facility includes: music rehearsal spaces, dance rehearsal spaces, dressing rooms, and VIP reception areas. The complex includes two other performance facilities: a 500 seat Recital Hall and a 1,200 seat Concert Hall. Jinan is the provincial capital for the Shandong region of the People's Republic of China.

Budget:	$235 million
Seating:	2,500 Delegate/Opera Hall 1,200 Concert Hall 500 Recital Hall
Opening:	June, 1998
Architects:	John Portman & Associates, Atlanta, Georgia
Acousticians:	Coffee Fricke & Associates, Inc., Lenexa, Kansas

 Lied Performing Arts Center - Lawrence, Kansas

A new professional performance center for the University of Kansas, including a major touring theatre and a master plan for a second phase performing arts complex.

Budget:	$13 million
Seating:	2,200 Theatre
Opening:	October, 1993
Architects:	HDR Associates, Omaha, Nebraska
Acousticians:	A. Lawrence Kirkegaard & Associates, Downers Grove, Illinois

 Lied Performing Arts Center - Lincoln, Nebraska

A new professional performing arts center for the University of Nebraska, including a major touring theatre/opera facility and a multi-purpose (black box) room, rehearsal room and classroom. The new facility was designed to connect to and expand the existing music department and the existing recital hall. While the main theatre had a primary role as a road show facility, the music department desired to create an opera production program that would also be housed in that space.

Budget:	$20-22 million
Seating:	2,300 Main Theatre 200 Multi-Purpose Room
Opening:	November, 1989
Architects:	HDR Associates, Omaha, Nebraska
Acousticians:	Paul S. Veneklasen & Associates, Santa Monica, California

 Hatfield Theatre - Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology - Terre Haute, Indiana

Through the success of many alumni, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology has gained a reputation as one of hte United States' best undergraduate engineering and technology schools. It is not surprising that one of those successful alumns chose to donate the funding for a theatre and alumni center complex for the campus. Although the school has never developed the fine and performing arts as degree programs, it has gained national attention for the laboratory research they have done in show control technology, some of which has reached Broadway. In recognizing the Hatfields, the theatre plan had to achieve three separate objectives: bringing cultural events to campus, supporting student presentations and serving as a laboratory for the stage technology program. One unique feature of the space is a completely demountable stage flooring system to alow the use and testing of computerized show control technology and machinery.

Budget:	$9.5 million (total project)
Seating:	620
Opening:	October, 2002
Architects:	VOA Associates, Chicago, Illinois
Acousticians:	A. Lawrence Kirkegaard & Associates, Chicago, Illinois