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The Community Arts Center is a 2,078-seat performing arts center located in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, next to the Genetti Hotel. Originally a movie palace, it opened in 1928 as the Capitol Theatre. It reopened after restoration in 1993 as the Community Arts Center.
Perelman Theater, with 650 seats, has a 75-foot (23 m)-diameter turntable stage that permits the space to be used as a recital hall or a proscenium theater with a stage, fly-loft and orchestra pit. Dorrance H. Hamilton Roof Garden located above the Perelman Theater.
The State Theatre Center for the Arts has been known to have very popular entertainers and productions hosted throughout the past 90 years. The most notable names are jazz musicians Paul Whiteman and Glen Gray, The Dorsey Brothers, popular musicians Johnny Cash, Slim Whitman, Waylon Jennings, Glen Campbell, Anne Murray, Chubby Checker and the Statler Brothers.
The Scranton Cultural Center at the Masonic Temple (formerly the Masonic Temple and Scottish Rite Cathedral) is a theatre and cultural center in Scranton, Pennsylvania.The Cultural Center's mission statement is "to rejuvenate a national architectural structure as a regional center for arts, education and community activities appealing to all ages."
The Capitol was developed in 1926 by the Pottstown, PA Theatre Company. The PA Theatre Company wanted to add to the rapidly growing number of movie theaters. The Quigly Hafer construction company was hired to build the theatre. It was completed in only nine months and opened on February 3, 1927. [3]
The State Theatre is a 554-seat non-profit community theatre in State College, Pennsylvania. [1] It currently operates as one of the cultural hubs of music, cinema, and live performances for downtown State College and the Centre County region.
It operated as a performance arts venue for vaudeville, operas, concerts, plays, and a movie theatre at various times during the 20th century. [2] In 2000 the Berks County Convention Center Authority oversaw the acquisition and renovation of the theatre by Sovereign Bank; who rebranded the theater as the Sovereign Performing Arts Center. [1]
The State Theatre, officially known as the State Theatre Center for the Arts, is a 1,500-seat, historic, American theater that is located in the City of Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [1]