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Also Known As theatron

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Teatro Farnese
Taormina, Sicily: theatre
Ornate stage of Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, Italy, featuring classical architectural details, statues in niches, and a central archway opening onto a perspective street set.
interior of the Swan Theatre
La Scala
Italian-manner stage
Charles Kean as King Lear
box set for a scene from Ours
Tiger Rose
The Roman amphitheatre in Amman, Jordan, with its stone seating and stage, stands in front of a hillside densely packed with modern dwellings and greenery.
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Lee Shubert
American theatrical manager
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Sam S. Shubert
American theatrical manager
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Jacob J. Shubert
American theatrical manager
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Sir John Vanbrugh
British dramatist and architect
Rossi, Aldo: Quartier Schützenstrasse
Aldo Rossi
Italian architect
The Director's Pavillion, salt mines at Arc-et-Senans, near Besançon, Fr., by Ledoux, 1773–75
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux
French architect
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Shubert Brothers
American theatrical managers
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Marcel Breuer
Hungarian architect
Paris: Place de la Concorde
Ange-Jacques Gabriel
French architect
Church of Notre-Dame, Le Raincy, Fr., by Auguste and Gustave Perret, 1923, with stained glass by Maurice Denis
Auguste Perret
French architect
Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. The building was designed by Giacomo Antonio Domenico Quarenghi.
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Quarenghi
Italian painter and architect
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Hector-Martin Lefuel
French architect
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Victor Louis
French architect
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Henry Holland
British architect
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Steele MacKaye
American playwright
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Vincenzo Scamozzi
Italian architect
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Affonso Reidy
Brazilian architect
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Lilian Mary Baylis
British theatrical manager
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Nicola Sabbatini
Italian architect
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Bernardo Buontalenti
Italian stage designer

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