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. After a two-year renovation, it reopened again in February as the Hayes Theater—with about 600 seats, the smallest house on Broadway. Read more about this #AR_Interiors at http://ow.ly/feSW30kbRab Text by Linda C. Lentz Photo © Paul Warchol #davidrockwell #rockwellgroup #newyorkcity #interiorarchitecture #archidaily #arquitectura #architecture #architect #design #buildings #buildingdesign #Architektur #architettura #archigram #archilovers #archdaily #archilovers #architecturephotography #architecturalphotography #geometry #ig_architecture #pocket_architecture #archi_features #architecture_view #architecturelovers #architexture (at New York, New York)