Courtyard Theater
Plano, Texas, USA
Craig D. Blackmon
This flexible courtyard theatre was an adaptive reuse of a high school auditorium, which was built in 1938 as a Works Progress Administration project. Theatre Projects and the design team worked to preserve the historic materials and style of the existing building while creating a versatile cultural centerpiece for the community.
Modular seating platforms can be reconfigured to create endstage, thrust, or arena configurations and the room’s side walls have movable panels enabling tuning of the room’s acoustics. The seats were selected for audience comfort and ease of handling during reconfiguration. The adapted facility originally housed the Plano Repertory Theatre Company.
Theatre Projects
owner:
City of Plano
architect:
Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates
acoustician:
Jaffe Holden Acoustics
users:
Plano Children’s Theatre, Classical Ballet Festival, community arts groups
spaces:
- 325-seat drama theatre
construction type:
Adaptive reuse
theatre type:
Drama theatres
services:
Feasibility study, programming, concept design, theatre planning, performance equipment design and specification
completion:
2002
Theatre Projects
Theatre Projects
