Theater Square (Civ6)

Theater Square
District of the Classical Era
Introduced in Civilization VI
Unlocked by	Drama and Poetry
Plunder	Culture
Cost
Production	54
Production	54
Maint.	1
Maint.	1
Yields
Great Person Points	+1 Great Writer point per turn +1 Great Artist point per turn +1 Great Musician point per turn
Adjacency Bonus	+2 Culture from each adjacent wonder +2 Culture from each adjacent Entertainment Complex or Water Park tile +2 Culture from each adjacent Pamukkale tile +1 Culture from every 2 adjacent district tiles
Citizen Yields (per citizen)	+2 Culture
Trade Yields	Domestic Destination: +1 Food International Destination: +1 Culture
Appeal	1
Unlocks
Buildings	Amphitheater  Archaeological Museum  Art Museum  Broadcast Center
Projects	Theater Square Performances  Court Festival

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The Theater Square is a specialty district in Civilization VI, dedicated to cultural pursuits. It requires the Drama and Poetry civic.

• Effects:
  • Major bonus (+2 Culture) for each adjacent Wonder
  • Major bonus (+2 Culture) for each adjacent Water Park or Entertainment Complex district tile
  • Major bonus (+2 Culture) for each adjacent Pamukkale tile
  • Minor bonus (+½ Culture) for each adjacent district tile
  • +1 Great Writer point per turn
  • +1 Great Artist point per turn
  • +1 Great Musician point per turn
  • Buildings have slots for Great Works and Artifacts
  • Specialists add +2 Culture each
  • +1 Appeal to adjacent tiles

Buildings

The following buildings can be constructed in a Theater Square:

• Amphitheater
  • Marae (Māori only)
• Archaeological Museum (mutually exclusive with Art Museum)
• Art Museum (mutually exclusive with Archaeology Museum)
• Broadcast Center
  • Film Studio (America only)

Projects

• Theater Square Performances: Grants Culture and Great Writer, Great Artist, & Great Musician points equal to 15% of Production used
• Court Festival: Grants Culture and Tourism based on the number of excess copies of luxury resources that France possesses, including traded luxury resources and ones from your tributary city-states. Available only when led by Catherine de Medici (Magnificence).

Strategy

The Theater Square is your main tool for pursuing a Cultural Victory. Although the Tourism mechanics in Civilization VI are a bit different when compared to the previous game, Great Works still provide most of your Tourism output. But, as before, without slots where you can place the Great Works, you cannot even produce them! That's where the Theater Square and its buildings come into play.

Of course, this district has another purpose: as the main booster of Culture output of your cities, it not only helps widen your borders more rapidly, but most importantly it helps you acquire Civics more quickly! This in turn allows you to tweak your government more often, which makes your civilization more versatile.

Civilopedia entry

As the urban middle-class took on aspects of being "cultured" in the late 19th century, it demanded more refined entertainments than bear-baiting and bare-knuckle boxing. Theater districts were the answer, usually clustering around existing theaters and museums patronized by the upper-class. Thus New York City's Broadway district saw a number of new music halls and restaurants open immediately after the Metropolitan Opera House relocated to West 39th and Broadway in 1883. In the earlier 1800s, London's West End theater district expanded outward from the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. In time, all those that feed off theatrical talent were also found in the theater districts: recording studios, radio studios, agents, producers, and so forth.