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As part of the gift, the Wu Tsai Series features performances that celebrate interdisciplinary artworks from diverse voices that take advantage of the Theater’s intimacy and flexibility. This integral series kicks off during the inaugural season of David Geffen Hall.
- A More Intimate Theater Experience
- Better Acoustics
- A Much Larger Lobby
- A Storage Area Turned Sidewalk Studio
- A New Restaurant and Bar
- Bigger Bathrooms
- Events
The Wu Tsai Theater, with its red and blue rose petal design, welcomes visitors with a dramatic entrance. The petal motif meant to evoke joy and possibility continues throughout the theater with a pinkish petal design covering the theater’s 2,200 seats. The theater used to hold 2,700 people, but cutting those 500 seats allowed designers to extend t...
The reduced seating will also help with acoustics in the space, whether it’s used for classical music, a dance performance, a film festival or even a rock concert. The theater fuses both art and science, bringing together cozy wood tones along with rippled wood panels to provide acoustical balance.
The lobby has doubled in size and now features two mid-century pillars that were once hidden. A 50-foot video wall will livestream every concert for free, so anybody can sit in the lobby and watch. “Everything is meant to invite people in,” Deborah Borda, president and CEO of the New York Philharmonic said.
A piece of prime real estate near Broadway was long hidden away as an office and storage area, but it’s now been turned into a room with large windows that organizers are calling the sidewalk studio, a flexible performance space for 110 people. In the future, it could also hold kids’ events, yoga or live acoustic music.
In addition to bars/cafes in the lobby, a new restaurant called Tatiana will open in November. Led by chef Kwame Onwuachi, a native New Yorker from the Bronx and visionary chef, Tatiana will explore Afro-Caribbean flavors on the menu.
It may sound pedestrian, but being able to find the bathroom quickly during intermission really does matter. This design has doubled the number of toilets so there’s less time waiting in line and more time back in the theater enjoying the music.
Speaking of enjoying the music, mark your calendar for two celebratory galas held on October 26 and October 28, plus a free open house weekend on October 29 and 30featuring hundreds of artists animating the entire hall with performances, participatory activities and family events.
- Rossilynne Skena Culgan
- Things to Do Editor
Aug 3, 2022 · The Wu Tsai Theater will honor a $50 million gift from Joseph Tsai, a founder of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, and Clara Wu Tsai, a philanthropist.
David Geffen Hall is a concert hall in New York City's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts complex on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The 2,200-seat auditorium opened in 1962, and is the home of the New York Philharmonic.
Oct 10, 2022 · After years of meticulous planning and construction, the renovated David Geffen Hall is now open at Lincoln Center and will serve as the permanent home for the New York Philharmonic and its schedule of programming for the 2022-2023 season.
Aug 3, 2022 · Opening in October 2022, the new David Geffen Hall will improve the entire concert-going experience, creating the state-of-the-art Wu Tsai Theater to serve as the home of the New York...
Aug 4, 2022 · The theater in the new David Geffen Hall will be named the “Wu Tsai Theater” in honor of a gift by Joe Tsai and Clara Wu Tsai, philanthropist and Lincoln Center Board Member.
