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Expanding the Experience at the Port Stanley Festival Theatre

6/3/2013

 
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The Port Stanley Festival Theatre kicked off its summer season with opening night of the rollicking Back in ’59 and some special news. The Board of Directors of the theatre was pleased to announce the receipt of gifts totaling $293,000 for the Theatre’s ‘Expand the Experience’ Capital Campaign.
 
The intimacy of the venue is one of the main draws of Port’s Theatre by the Lake. However, it is often filled to capacity, and it was time to give a little more room for the creative ideas which are in abundant supply there. “We need to help ‘Expand the Experience’, building it bigger and better,” said Art Director Simon Joynes.

The theatre makes excellent adaptive re-use of a Findlay designed building, the 100-year old former village hall. The planned project will provide an improved working environment for actors and technical staff, increase the auditorium capacity for patrons, and enhance the cultural experience for visitors and local residents alike by allowing them to present a greater range of theatrical performances.

The project will expand and level the stage, add 50 seats to the auditorium, renovate the back-stage area, expand the basement workshop, and create a new multipurpose room overlooking Port Stanley harbour for youth theatre, lectures and patron events.  It is expected to take between two and three years to complete, and will also benefit the local library located in the building.

Generous donors include Ontario Trillium Foundation, Dorothy Fay Palmer Estate, Green Lane Community Trust Foundation, and the Walter J Blackburn Foundation. On hand to thank the donors was Bob Halle, President of the Port Stanley Festival Theatre and Simon Joynes Artistic Director PSFT. In attendance representing the Dorothy Fay Palmer Estate was Andrew Gunn and Grant Jones & David Marr from Green Lane Community Trust Foundation.

Back in 59 is followed by four more not-to-be missed productions. To find out more, visit www.portstanleytheatre.ca.









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