Vancouver Playhouse
Project Details
Location: Vancouver, BC
Our Work: Stages' scope included theatre planning, acoustics, and theatre equipment design.
Architect: Revery Architecture
Services: Acoustics, Programming and Feasibility, Theatre Planning, Theatre Technology
Completed: 2021
Team Member(s): Adam T Huggard, Alec Stoll, ASTC, and Damian Doria, FASA
The Playhouse is a regional theatre and cultural anchor for arts excellence in Vancouver. The Vancouver Playhouse opened in 1962 in response to the Canada Council’s funding initiative for regional theatre companies. Today, the Vancouver Playhouse is home to DanceHouse, Friends of Chamber Music, and the Vancouver Recital Society, among others. Vancouver Civic Theatres have an ongoing mission to provide barrier-free access to arts and culture in the city. Stages is working with Revery Architecture on a study to help the City of Vancouver optimize the building’s shared resources to meet modern public and performer expectations, address accessibility, develop acoustics criteria, and identify best practices for future audiences’ health and safety.