Fading Lights is my suggestion!

The ability to fade lights off, and fade them back on. Any light switch or power box can have the option to slowly dim (Can work well in theatre audience area), but we should be able to pick what lights can fade if we do that (Or if its too complicated, then no)! It will also fade back on.
This can work VERY well in theatres, or just many other scenarios!

Some possible settings that there can be are Instant (How we have it now), .5 second fade, 1 second fade, 3 second fade, or just an option to select how long we want the lights to slowly dim!

This can work with UI to control which lights/rooms will fade!

That is my suggestion, hope it sounds good!