Penthouse Theater

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Penthouse Theater

theater, Seattle, Washington, United States

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theatre design
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…Washington in Seattle built the Penthouse Theater, which proved to be a more practical model for the numerous theatres-in-the-round that followed. At roughly the same time, a number of theatres designed to imitate Elizabethan theatres—such as the indoor Maddermarket Theatre (1921) in Norwich, Eng., and the open-air Old Globe Theatre…
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…Washington in Seattle built the Penthouse Theater, which proved to be a more practical model for the numerous theatres-in-the-round that followed. At roughly the same time, a number of theatres designed to imitate Elizabethan theatres—such as the indoor Maddermarket Theatre (1921) in Norwich, Eng., and the open-air Old Globe Theatre…
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