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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 .
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.
This city-owned edifice was constructed in 1906 to a neoclassical design by architect Oliver Duke Wheeler and his collaborators with a dome and pediment façade. [2] [3] Later modifications on the building were designed by Frank Pierce Milburn and Frank DePasquale.
EMPAC is also home to a 400-seat theater with an 80′ x 40′ stage, 60′ fly tower, and computer controlled rigging. [3] EMPAC also has two very large projection screens: a 50' x 40' one in the theater and a 60' wide screen in the concert hall. [5] There are two main multi-purpose studio spaces.
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.
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.
The 59' x 54' center open floor performing space is surrounded by three sides with banks of theater seating. With seating up to 256 configurable seats, this theater can host a variety of seating arrangements. Wing and storage space adjoin the theater, which features a 22-foot catwalk. Two dressing rooms can accommodate up to 24 performers.