Allegrone Co. Celebrates the Opening of Jacob's Pillow's Doris Duke Theatre

The stage is set! This week our team joined Jacob's Pillow in celebration of the opening of the new Doris Duke Theatre.

Marking the most significant moment in the recent history of Jacob’s Pillow, the new Doris Duke Theatre opens its doors as part of Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, America’s longest-running international dance festival, located on Jacob’s Pillow’s beautiful destination campus in the Berkshire mountains of Massachusetts.

The landmark new theater is America’s only purpose-built new dance theater to open in 2025 and is set to become one of the most technologically advanced theaters in the world dedicated to dance.

Occupying the site of the former studio theater from 1990 – which was destroyed by fire in November 2020 – the reimagined Doris Duke Theatre is designed by an international team led by Francine Houben, founding architect of the leading Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo, in partnership with architecture and landscape architecture firm Marvel, theater and acoustics consultants Charcoalblue, and Planning Partner and Construction Manager Allegrone Companies. 

The theater provides a makerspace for artists seeking to integrate artificial intelligence, extended reality, robotics, and immersive platforms into live performance. The Doris Duke Theatre includes such capacities as a spatial audio system, infrared camera tracking of performers for interactive video content, and live performance interactions with recorded/projected dance content, among many other capabilities.