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Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts (commonly known as Dr. Phillips Center) is a performing arts center in Downtown Orlando, Florida, United States. It joined the Bob Carr Theater, which originally opened as the Orlando Municipal Auditorium in 1927, [1] to become Orlando's main performance venue. The center's grand opening was held on ...
In 1974, the Orlando City Council decided to renovated the auditorium and transform it into a state of the art theater and concert hall. Renovations began October 1975. [ 4 ] In May 1978, the venue was christened the "Mayor Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre", in honor of Bob Carr (mayor of Orlando from 1956 to 1967).
The Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute is a cultural, community, and artistic center that focuses on African American art, artists, and audiences. The center is located at 104 17th Avenue South, in the Central District of Seattle, Washington, in the United States; and is owned and operated by the eponymous LANGSTON Seattle, a not-profit organization.
In an effort to expand the arts program in Osceola County, and prepare students for work in the entertainment industry offered by theme parks and production studios in Central Florida, the School District of Osceola County considered using $6.5 million to build small 600- to 700-seat theaters at Saint Cloud High School, Poinciana High School, and Osceola High School; however, the cost of ...
A program from the first Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival, held in 1992. The Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival (also referred to as The Orlando Fringe) is a 14-day annual arts festival that takes place in Orlando, Florida, every May. The festival features 850 ticketed theatrical performances on indoor and outdoor stages ...
Black Arts/West was a nationally known African American theater founded in 1969 in Seattle, Washington, by playwright Douglas Q. Barnett. [1] Barnett's New Group Theater started in 1961. [ 2 ] Black Arts/West formally began as a performing arts program in 1967 with the social services agency CAMP (Central Area Motivation Program). [ 3 ]
On The Boards/Behnke Center for Contemporary Performance (2007) On the Boards (OtB) is a non-profit contemporary performing arts organization in Seattle, Washington, founded in 1978. Originally located at Washington Hall in the Central District, the organization moved in 1998 to their current location in Uptown. They present more than 40 ...
By 1944, enough jobs were created to increase the city's population to 45,000 people. Orlando became a major military center when World War II brought the development of McCoy Air Force Base and Pinecastle AFB, located southeast of downtown. This status intensified with the 1968 opening of the Orlando Naval Training Center east of downtown.