Projects Under Design and Construction
A Noise Within: Founded in 1991, A Noise Within is dedicated to preservation and presentation of classical theatre in repertory format as well as providing educational outreach and training. The company has outgrown its current home in Glendale and in conjunction with the Mayor and other leaders of Pasadena, is preparing a new home in the Stuart Pharmaceutical building. The Stuart building was designed by Edward Durrell Stone and was featured on the cover of Time Magazine at its construction in 1958. It is listed with the National Register of Historic Places. Our project will preserve the historic perforated facade screen and atrium and provide a warm, intimate 350-seat thrust stage and support spaces for A Noise Within. The audience surrounds the thrust stage a full 180 degrees and no seat is more than 8 rows from the stage. The new theatre will also provide office, rehearsal space, educational space and performer and technical support for the company.
Owner's Representative: Geoff Elliot and Julia Rodriguez-Elliot, Co-Artistic Directors, A Noise Within Theatre Company, www.anoisewithin.org
Project Architect: John Berry, John Berry Architects, Los Angeles, CA, www.johnberryarchitects.com
Construction data: 350 seats, construction estimate $13.3M
Phoenix Theatre:
Landry & Bogan, Inc. is working with a design team lead by substance design consortium to create a new Main Stage
for the Phoenix Theatre, the oldest arts organization in Arizona. Founded in 1920, the Phoenix Theatre has a
long history of production and community outreach, programs ranging from curricular- and extra-curricular theatre
training, through summer camps, to Partners That Heal, which brings theatre artists into area hospitals in a program
specially designed to help allay the fears of young patients.
The new theatre will provide much greater production capacity, as it includes a full orchestra pit, full overhead
scenic capabilities (fly tower) and more wing space than the current main theatre. It will adjoin the existing
facility and provide additional audience amenities to support both theatres, including a catering kitchen and donor
lounge to support special events. Landry & Bogan, Inc. is providing consulting on design of the stage and house,
lighting positions, technical and performer support spaces as well as designs for performance lighting, rigging,
orchestra pit, and other theatrical systems. The project may be constructed in phases, with the audience box and
control room spaces developed as a flexible studio space in Phase one, with seating slope, stage and front-of-house
build-out as phase two. The schematic design phase is underway.
Tri-Valley Regional: The new 2000-seat Regional Theatre will be the companion to the existing 500-seat Bankhead Theatre (completed in 2001 by the same design team). 8 years in the planning, the large theatre will bring touring Broadway shows, concerts, headliners, classic music and more to the the Livermore Valley. Designed so that no seat is more than 125 feet from the stage, the theatre is scheduled to open in 2011. Landry & Bogan has been providing consulting since the beginning of the two-theatre project and is providing design consulting on the interior of the theatre and the theatrical systems through construction.
Owner's Representative: Len Alexander, Executive Director, Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center, 2222 2nd St., Suite 18, Livermore, CA 94550, 925-373-6100
Project Architect: Steve MacCracken, MacCracken Architects, 479 Ninth Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94103, 415-487-2050
Construction data: 500 seat theatre, 31,491 SF of total construction. Project cost $22.3M, construction cost approx. $17.5M, opened October 2007.