Global Theater-Building Boom

7 January 2003 - 12:00pm

The surge of theater-building around the world may slowing down.

"Around the world a building boom is under way in new theatres, concert halls, opera houses and multi-purpose buildings for live shows...Yet theatre-building is the sort of thing people do at the end of a golden era (as at the turn of the 20th century) when confidence is high and wealth is ample. Now, tax revenues are weak and wealthy donors less wealthy. The curtain may be about to fall, at least for an intermission.

Full Story: On with the show
Source: The Economist, January 2, 2003
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