Theaters in San Fernando

Valley
Jessica Burnett
March 17, 2017
CRW246
California State University Northridge
Theaters

The Little Theater

Campus Theater

Valley Performing Arts Center

Campus Theater

(Thrust stage) Large open stage with

sky lighting Open space allows various
flexibility with staging and multi-scene
set ups. For the playwright, parallel
scenes are possible to construct
visually.

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The Campus Theater

The Campus Theatre seats 393, and has an

over sized stage with an extended
workshop attached. The dressing rooms are
located under the stage and can be
reached by a circular stairway. There are
five private dressing rooms and two chorus
rooms which accommodate up to 20 actors
each.
Playwright consideration

The CSUNorthridge campus theater,

especially those who are constructed as a
thrust stage; are designed to accommodate
sound. Many of the theatrical performances
engage in sound performance. As a
playwright, engaging in constructing
dialogue that may not necessarily include
music in the traditional sense, these venues
would accommodate dialogue that played
with sound during delivery. This is due to
the arch ways of the stage and the
placement of the audience, who has access
to a three dimensional visual and auditory
interaction. Plays such as For Colored Girls
Only would be beneficial for this specific
construction.
Nordhoff Hall The Little Theater

The Little Theatre seats 191,

and includes a large stage.
Proscenium stage
Valley Performing Arts Center
thrust theatre stage consists of being surrounded by audience on three sides
Building a Theater

1,700- Seats in the Valley Performing Arts Center

4,000- Tons of steel

The weight of about 866 adult African elephants.

11,000- Cubic yards of concrete used

27,000- Volume of earth moved in cubic yards

Thats about 1/10th of whats needed to build an 18-hole golf course.

30,000- Square feet of glass

34,000- Square feet of panels used for variable acoustic purposes

This would cover more than one half of a football field.

166,000- Total square feet of the Valley Performing Arts Center

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 Taj Express: The Bollywood Musical Revue
Visual Stimulation- impact the of the visual representation and transcendence along with the movement
that allows the audience to experience a fluidness of plot movement and engage in spectacle.
Wed., April 19
8PM | Great Hall
http://www.valleyperformingartscenter.org/tickets/performances/
 Lila Downs with Monsieur Perin
Sound Diction and cadence is used to pace stories especially of cultural nature. Even when we reflect on
childhood cultural milestones, songs and dance engrained many values that were culturally significant.
Sat., April 22
8PM | Great Hall
http://www.valleyperformingartscenter.org/tickets/performances/
Costumes create a transcendence into different realms,
time periods and species. Greek tragedies, plays that transcend into different realms such as
life, death, heaven, hell, hades, Olympus etc provide physical transitions that can be used to provide additional
communication to the audience with out dialogue.

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 Make-up allows the audience to engage in the illusion of character beyond dialogue and
transmit to expression.
A true art form, modern dramatic makeup looks range from makeup that is realistic looking, albeit
much heavier than standard cosmetic application, to highly unusual characterization, animal, period,
special effects, and avant garde makeup looks.(Finley, 2017)

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