Theater
From comedy improv to Shakespeare to ballet to national Broadway productions, you'll discover an endless array of theatrical amusement in Downtown Greenville.
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Warehouse Theatre
The Warehouse Theatre, now thirty-five years old, produces a Mainstage season of seven plays, four “On the Edge Series” productions, and stand-up comedy, and it is home to The Distracted Globe and the Upstate Shakespeare Festival.
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Centre Stage
Back in 1983, Douglas P. McCoy founded a bold and innovative theater company that strived for ultimate professionalism. After holding court at a tidy space at the corner of Washington and Academy streets, the theater found its permanent home in 1997: a ten-thousand-square-foot, thrust-style performance space that is truly unique, not just to the Upstate, but to the country.
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Greenville Little Theatre
Not many theaters in this country can boast of a performance history that predates World War II, but the Greenville Little Theatre (GLT) can and has proved itself generation after generation to be the bedrock of this area's theater scene. Currently the theater serves up a reliable offering of "mainstream family-oriented musicals and plays," new and old, in its six-hundred-seat venue on Heritage Green downtown.
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South Carolina Children's Theatre
The South Carolina Children’s Theatre (SCCT) has entertained and involved families and artists of all ages in its productions for twenty-one years. The theater presents five shows a season at the Peace Center, Greenville’s state-of-the-art performance venue. SCCT’s Conservatory for Theatre Arts is a year-round program offered to children ages three through eighteen and is staffed by gifted professionals in all areas of the field.
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The Peace Center
The Peace Center is Greenville's state-of-the-art performance venue, made up of the 2,100-seat concert hall, 400-seat Gunter Theatre, and an outdoor amphitheater. In addition to the enormously successful Broadway series, the Peace Center includes the residencies of the South Carolina Children's Theatre, Greenville Symphony, Carolina Ballet Theatre, International Ballet, and the Greenville Chorale. After eighteen years, the Peace Center has proved itself to be one of the finest places for live entertainment in the Southeast, for everything from Broadway to bluegrass.
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The Distracted Globe
As a resident company of The Warehouse Theatre, The Distracted Globe offers Comedy Improv, a scripted summer series of classical comedy, and workshops that cover all aspects of performance.