Second Stage Theater purchased the landmarked Helen Hayes aiming to dedicate it to contemporary works of theater by living American playwrights. Its new design offers guests a modern, approachable design vocabulary that references the Hayes’s heritage, as well as Second Stage’s contemporary aesthetic. Inside the auditorium, six color-tunable source four LEDs on either side of the room project light onto the opposite wall in an even wash to intensify David Rockwell’s pixelated, blue ombré wrapper.

Location: New York, NY
Client: Second Stage Theater
Architect: Rockwell Group
Photographer: Ryan Fischer

Second Stage Theater purchased the landmarked Helen Hayes aiming to dedicate it to contemporary works of theater by living American playwrights. Its new design offers guests a modern, approachable design vocabulary that references the Hayes’s heritage, as well as Second Stage’s contemporary aesthetic. Inside the auditorium, six color-tunable source four LEDs on either side of the room project light onto the opposite wall in an even wash to intensify David Rockwell’s pixelated, blue ombré wrapper.

Location: New York, NY
Client: Second Stage Theater
Architect: Rockwell Group
Photographer: Ryan Fischer

Second Stage Theater purchased the landmarked Helen Hayes aiming to dedicate it to contemporary works of theater by living American playwrights. Its new design offers guests a modern, approachable design vocabulary that references the Hayes’s heritage, as well as Second Stage’s contemporary aesthetic. Inside the auditorium, six color-tunable source four LEDs on either side of the room project light onto the opposite wall in an even wash to intensify David Rockwell’s pixelated, blue ombré wrapper.

Location: New York, NY
Client: Second Stage Theater
Architect: Rockwell Group
Photographer: Ryan Fischer

Second Stage Theater purchased the landmarked Helen Hayes aiming to dedicate it to contemporary works of theater by living American playwrights. Its new design offers guests a modern, approachable design vocabulary that references the Hayes’s heritage, as well as Second Stage’s contemporary aesthetic. Inside the auditorium, six color-tunable source four LEDs on either side of the room project light onto the opposite wall in an even wash to intensify David Rockwell’s pixelated, blue ombré wrapper.

Location: New York, NY
Client: Second Stage Theater
Architect: Rockwell Group
Photographer: Ryan Fischer