REPORT 061
DEE AND CHARLES WYLY THEATRE
Company: Theatre Projects Location: Dallas, USA
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In collaboration with REX / OMA, Joshua Prince-Ramus (partner in charge) and Rem Koolhaas, Theatre Projects has helped create the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre – the avant garde, vertical structure at the heart of the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas. Theatre Projects played the lead role in theatre design and planning as well as in engineering customised performance equipment. The building’s dramatic design organises 75,000 sq feet of performance and support spaces in a stacked, vertical array, and gives the public uninterrupted views of the theatre (stage, backstage areas, and auditorium) through expansive glass walls on three sides of the theatre. In the upper floors of the building, unexpected interior and exterior views give the individual spaces a feeling of openness. Theatre Projects worked closely with REX / OMA to fit all of the performance and support spaces into the vertical scheme while ensuring their arrangement would support the functional demands of the resident Dallas Theatre Center. Benton Delinger, Project Manager and Principal in Charge for Theatre Projects, said: “The Wyly offers the Dallas Theater Center a platform for creating the kinds of theatre that have yet to be imagined. The artistic opportunities are endless.” When the Dallas Theater Center came to Theatre Projects, it was looking for staging flexibility and performance intimacy in their new facility. In response, Theatre Projects devised a multiform space that can be arranged in a variety of configurations, de- pending on the company’s artistic needs. A hoist system lifts the theatre’s balconies and proscenium out of the way and hides them in storage areas above. An advanced
rotating lift system allows easy reconfiguration of the audience and stage, plus quick storage for seats and platforms. Theatre Projects’ sophisticated designs allow the space to be configured for up to 575 seats in proscenium, thrust, traverse, and flat floor arrangements. The Wyly’s state-of-the-art power flying system is one of the largest installations for a regional theatre in the US. Lighting is networked over a Philips Strand Vision system. The lighting spec includes ETC Source 4 profiles, Philips Strand fresnels, Altman cyc and strip lights, two Lycian Super Arc followspots, four Philips Vari-Lite VL1000s, and 18 Morpheus S- Fader scrollers. Control comes from a Strand Light Palette VL. The audio equipment, specified by Engineering Harmonics, of Toronto, and supplied by Clair Brothers of Dallas, includes seven JBL AM6200/95 speakers, two JBL AL6115s subwoofers, 21 JBL Control 25 speakers for under balcony fill, and 21 JBL Control 23 speakers for under balcony effects. Two JBL AM6212/00s, two JBL AL6125 subwoofers are also included in the package, along with eight Tan- noy i6 units for front fill, and five Meyer Sound speakers for thrust fill. Two Yamaha MC7L consoles fulfill the sound and effect mixing / playback duties. A Clear-Com communications system has also been installed.
Theatre Projects is also the theatre design consultant for the Foster + Partners de- signed Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the AT&T Performing Arts Center.
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