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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 .
The Boettcher Concert Hall is the nation's first symphony hall in-the-round, designed to place the audience close to the stage in a unique environment – 80% of the seats are within 65 feet of the stage, There are no true vertical or horizontal surfaces inside Boettcher Concert Hall; the walls are canted at a slight angle to disperse sound and prevent flutter echoes.
Chris and Ann Reyes Organ and Choral Hall: an 80-seat room that features a handcrafted pipe organ built by Paul Fritts, which weighs 10,000 pounds, has 35 stops, and contains 2,551 pipes. The organ took 15 months to build in Tacoma, Washington , then was disassembled and shipped to Notre Dame, whereupon it took two months to install.
DPAC, which seats about 2,700, is owned by the city of Durham but managed by Nederlander and Professional Facilities management. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement. Holiday Shopping Guides.
The DCPA is a four-block, 12-acre (49,000 m 2) site containing ten performance spaces with over 10,000 seats connected by an 80-foot-tall (24 m) glass roof. [1] It is home to a professional theater company and also hosts Broadway musical tours, contemporary dance and ballet , chorales, symphony orchestras, opera productions, and pop stars.
A social media user shared an unexpected "seat squatter" story that included a strange turn of events as the traveler allegedly gave up a first-class seat in exchange for a downgrade.
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The venue features a 2,700-seat amplified hall, Walt Disney Theater, for Broadway musicals and multi-genre concerts as well as a 300-seat venue, Alexis & Pugh Theater, for smaller shows and events. [3] The third theater, Steinmetz Hall, a 1,700-seat multiform theater achieves an N1 sound rating–the highest possible acoustical rating.