Dusíkovo divadlo, Historic theatre in Nové Město, Czech Republic
Dusíkovo divadlo is a theatre building in Nové Město featuring a main stage for various performances and events. The interior contains seating areas, foyer spaces, and backstage facilities designed to accommodate theatrical productions, concerts, and community gatherings.
Thirty-two citizens founded a private society on 5 May 1867 to build a theatre named after Čáslav native J. L. Dusík. Built to Josef Spudil's plans in a historicising neo-Gothic style, it opened on 28 February 1869. A fire on New Year's Eve 1922 destroyed the building; it reopened on 16 March 1924 with Jirásek's Lucerna.
The theatre is named after Jan Ladislav Dusík, a composer and pianist born in Čáslav in 1760. Its curtain, painted with a view of Čáslav by Josef Spudil, was made for free, and amateur actors staged Tyl, Klicpera and Štěpánek plays here daily after 1869.
The theatre stands in Čáslav's Nové Město, on the site of the original 1867 plot bought from the theatre fund. The 1923–1924 rebuilding by Skřivánek and Svoboda gave the house a reinforced-concrete structure with wide galleries, ten boxes and a large balcony. The painted curtain by Antonín Růžička is now kept in the town museum, not in the theatre.
The theatre is named after Jan Ladislav Dusík, a Čáslav native and pianist-composer. His portrait, carved by Jindřich Čapek, was placed on the facade; in 1896 it was replaced by a likeness by sculptor Jaroslav Znojemský.
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