Best Large House

Amsterdam concert hall opened in 1888, home of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, widely regarded as one of the world's finest acoustic venues.

A concert hall in Boston opened in 1900, designed by McKim, Mead & White and widely regarded as one of the finest acoustical halls in the world.

Carnegie Hall, opened in 1891 in New York City and funded by industrialist Andrew Carnegie, is one of the world's most prestigious concert venues for classical and popular music.

National Theatre is the United Kingdom's flagship publicly funded theatre on the South Bank, London, founded in 1963 under Laurence Olivier and operating three auditoria in its current building opened in 1976.

London's oldest theater on its site, with origins dating to 1663; the current building opened in 1812 and is one of the largest in the West End.

National cultural center in Washington D.C. opened in 1971, presenting opera, theater, ballet, and orchestral music while serving as a living memorial to President Kennedy.

The home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since its 1904 opening, designed by Daniel Burnham and now part of the Symphony Center complex.

Tokyo's principal kabuki venue, originally established in 1889 and rebuilt multiple times, with the current structure opening in 2013 after reconstruction.

Royal Shakespeare Theatre is the flagship venue of the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, extensively rebuilt and reopened in 2011 with a thrust stage.

Iconic Hollywood movie palace opened in 1927, famous worldwide for its forecourt of celebrity handprints and footprints preserved in concrete blocks.

Minneapolis theater founded in 1963 by director Tyrone Guthrie, notable for its thrust stage design and its influence as a model institution for the American regional theater movement.

Lincoln Center Theater, founded in 1985 in New York, operates the Vivian Beaumont and Mitzi E. Newhouse theaters and is known for producing major dramatic and musical works.

A major Canadian theater festival founded in Stratford, Ontario in 1953 by director Tyrone Guthrie, focused on Shakespeare and classical works.

Dallas concert hall opened in 1989, designed by I.M. Pei, home to the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and recognized for its exceptional acoustics.

A Hamburg concert hall opened in 2017, designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron atop a 1960s warehouse, with a distinctive wave-shaped glass facade.

Historic Broadway theater that opened in 1913 as the premier showcase for American vaudeville acts, now a landmark venue on Times Square.

A grand 1928 movie palace in Detroit featuring Moorish and Byzantine-inspired décor, among the largest surviving historic theaters in the United States.

Philadelphia concert hall opened in 1857, the oldest opera house in continuous use in the United States and the long-time home of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

The Thalia Theater in Hamburg, founded in 1843, is one of Germany's oldest and most celebrated repertory theaters, known for ambitious classical and contemporary productions.

Landmark Chicago theater opened in 1921 on State Street, featuring French Baroque architecture and an illuminated marquee sign that has become an iconic symbol of the city.

Chicago's oldest and largest nonprofit theater, founded in 1925 and named after playwright William Goodman, with a history of world premieres and Tony Award-winning productions.

Opened in 1927 on West 44th Street, the St. James hosted the original production of Oklahoma! in 1943 and has housed numerous long-running musicals since.

Broadway theater opened in 1911, best known for hosting Cats, which ran there from 1982 to 2000 as one of Broadway's longest-running productions.

Washington D.C. nonprofit theater founded in 1950 by Zelda Fichandler, widely credited as a pioneer of the American regional theater movement.

De Nederlandse Opera, the Dutch National Opera based in Amsterdam, was founded in 1946 and is among the largest opera companies in the Netherlands.

Cleveland performing arts complex comprising five restored 1920s-era theaters, forming the largest theater district in the United States outside of New York City.

Warsaw's Teatr Wielki (Grand Theatre), opened in 1833, is one of the world's largest opera and ballet venues, with a stage among the biggest in Europe.

A Rio de Janeiro opera house opened in 1909, modeled on the Paris Opéra and serving as Brazil's foremost venue for opera, ballet, and classical music.

Hollywood theater opened in 1930 in an Art Deco style, which hosted the Academy Awards from 1949 to 1959 and continues to present touring Broadway productions.