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Wings Event Center (formerly Wings Stadium) is a 5,113-seat multi-purpose arena located in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The arena, opened in 1974, is home to the Kalamazoo Wings, an ice hockey team in the ECHL. The stadium changed the name to the Wings Event Center on March 25, 2015 to market the arena's other hosting capabilities to companies and ...
Kalamazoo's theaters and performing groups include the Kalamazoo Civic Theatre, The New Vic Theatre, Farmers Alley Theatre, Crawlspace Theatre Productions, The State Theater, and the Barn Theatre in nearby Augusta. Plays and musicals are also performed at Kalamazoo College and Western Michigan University.
The State Theatre is a Spanish-styled atmospheric theatre in Kalamazoo, Michigan, designed by renowned architect John Eberson. The State was built for W.S. Butterfield Theatres in 1927, and remains in operation today, presenting live shows. The theatre was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. [1]
W. S. Butterfield Theatres, Inc. was an American operator of vaudeville theaters and later movie theaters in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan.Beginning in the early 1900s, "Colonel" Walter Scott Butterfield expanded his business from one vaudeville house in Battle Creek in 1906 to 114 cinemas across Michigan in 1942. [1]
Kalamazoo: September 25, 1956: Kalamazoo College/Michigan and Huron Institute Informational Designation Corner of Walnut St & Westnedge Ave Kalamazoo: September 24, 1982: Kalamazoo Region Informational Designation Rest Area, westbound I-94 near Galesburg Kalamazoo vicinity July 17, 1961: Kalamazoo School Case of 1874 Informational Designation
The theatre was state of the art for the time. In October of that year, their first show of the 1931-1932 season was a staging of W. Somerset Maugham's "The Constant Wife". [4] 1933 – Founding member Norman Carver Sr. was instrumental in forming the Michigan Little Theatre Enclave, later to become the Community Theatre Association of Michigan.
The theatre originated in 1946 when Jack Ragotzy, Betty Ebert and others formed the Village Players troupe. After playing several seasons in a community hall in a former Methodist church (in Richland [ 2 ] ), in 1949 Jack and Betty moved a dairy barn, which was converted into a theatre and was purchased by them in 1954. [ 4 ]
Map of Michigan with Kalamazoo County highlighted The following is a list of Registered Historic Places in Kalamazoo County, Michigan . This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted February 21, 2025.