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The Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC), formerly Loew's State Theatre and Palace Concert Theater, is a multi-use not-for-profit theater located at 220 Weybosset Street in downtown Providence, Rhode Island. It was built in 1928 as a movie palace by the Loews Theatres chain to designs by Rapp & Rapp, the leading designers of music palaces ...
When opened, the theater featured vaudeville and silent films before it was leased by RKO Albee Theater. It was considered “one of Providence’s premier cinemas for the next 25 years.”. [1] In 1929, it was renamed the Uptown Theatre. [3] They fell on hard times until Misak Berberian bought it in the summer of 1962. He returned it to ...
AS220 is a non-profit community arts center located in Downtown, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.AS220 maintains four dozen artist live/work studios, around a dozen individual work studios, six rotating exhibition spaces, a main stage, a black box theater, a dance studio, a print shop, a community darkroom, a digital media lab, a fabrication lab, an organization-run bar and restaurant ...
Trinity Repertory Company (commonly abbreviated as Trinity Rep) is a non-profit regional theater located at 201 Washington Street in Providence, Rhode Island. [1] The theater is a member of the League of Resident Theatres. [4] Founded in 1963, [1] the theater is "one of the most respected regional theatres in the country". [5]
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In 1929, the theatre changed management and opened a year later as the Paramount Theatre. To capitalize on the emerging "talking pictures" market, the nearly 2,100-seat auditorium was converted into a movie cinema, making it one of eight in downtown Providence. Four years later, the theatre returned to its original name.
State Theatre (Los Angeles), California; Holyoke Opera House, Massachusetts, as it was known from 1945 to 1955; Landmark Theatre (Syracuse, New York) Loew's State Theatre (New York City), 1540 Broadway, now the site of the Bertelsmann Building; Providence Performing Arts Center, formerly known as the Loew's State Theater, Providence, Rhode Island
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