Goodman Theatre

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The Scene – The 170,000-square-foot, $46 million North Loop complex (completed in November 2000) is a sleek, beautiful building that houses two theaters. The Albert Ivar Theatre features a proscenium stage and seats 856 people in comfy purple chairs. The sightlines are fantastic, the color scheme rich and soothing (though fake stone walls behind the loge seats are distractingly tacky). The Owen Bruner Theatre is a modernist, 400-seat flexible stage ideal for smaller productions. The two-story lobby offers plenty of room to hobnob and lots of good people-watching spots. – –…