The Mummers Theater, later known as the Stage Theater, was designed by John M. Johansen and opened in 1970. Johansen, a member of the “Harvard Five” group of architects that included Marcel Breuer, Eliot Noyes, Philip Johnson and Landis Gore, was hired for the project by the Ford Foundation, which provided a $2 million grant to built a modern downtown home for the 22-year-old Oklahoma City-based Mummers Theater Company. Johansen incorporated elements of brutalism and systems theory into his design, featuring blocks of raw concrete and steel cladding painted in bright colors, connected through a series of tubes and catwalks. The resulting complex was considered highly unconventional and garnered much criticism upon its opening. The theater was demolished in 2014.