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The Kennedy Center as seen from the air on January 8, 2006 (before construction of the REACH expansion). A portion of the Watergate complex can be seen at the left. The idea for a national cultural center dates to 1933 when First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt discussed ideas for the Emergency Relief and Civil Works Administration to create employment for unemployed actors during the Great Depression. [3]
The Durham Performing Arts Center (often called the DPAC) opened November 30, 2008 as the largest performing arts center in the Carolinas at a cost of $48 million. [1] The DPAC hosts over 200 performances a year including touring Broadway productions, high-profile concert and comedy events, family shows and the American Dance Festival .
Muriel Kauffman first discussed her idea for a performing arts center in Kansas City with her family and the community in 1994. After her death the following year, her daughter and chairman of the Muriel McBrien Kauffman Foundation, Julia Irene Kauffman, began to move the project forward.
The present building first opened in 1976 as Robin Hood Dell West and subsequently was designated in 1979 the Mann Music Center in honor of Fredric R. Mann.In 2000, the facility was renamed to The Mann Center for the Performing Arts to reflect the center's plans to broaden its programming and service to the overall community.
Originally opened on November 1, 1979, as Center for the Arts, the Singletary Center for the Arts is a fine arts complex located on the campus of the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky.
The River Raisin Centre for the Arts is a community performing arts center and former movie theater in Monroe, Michigan. It occupies the historic Art Deco -styled Monroe Theatre , built in 1938. The RRCA was founded in 1987, following the 1975 closure of the Monroe Theatre and a historic preservation effort to save the theatre from demolition.
The center features a 17-story carillon tower containing 47 bells and is the first performing arts center in the nation to be Gold LEED certified. [4] It opened on March 10, 2012. [5] The Smith Center features international music, and dance companies and is the home of the Las Vegas Philharmonic and Nevada Ballet Theatre. The center is under ...
The Segal Centre for Performing Arts, formerly the Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, is a theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located at 5170 chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine , in the borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce .