What interests David Rockwell most about theater, he says, is the ability to enable storytelling through architecture—an undertaking he and his eponymous firm embraced when New York’s Second Stage Theater asked them to revive an old Broadway house for the company’s new home, and also design the set for its first production in it.
Called the Little Theater when it was built in 1912, the landmarked neo-Georgian building was designed by Harry Creighton Ingalls and F. Burrall Hoffman for impresario Winthrop Ames, to evoke an intimate, salon-like experience, with only 299 seats. Five years later, its interior was renovated by the noted theater architect Herbert Krapp, who added a balcony. It received another overhaul in 1979 and was renamed the Helen Hayes four years later.
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