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PlayhouseSquare Center

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PlayhouseSquare, in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, is the "world's largest theater restoration project," and the country's largest performing arts center outside New York City (eclipsed only by Lincoln Center), as well as Northeast Ohio's home for touring Broadway shows, concerts, comedy, opera, dance and children's programming.

PlayhouseSquare draws more than 1 million people annually to its eight performance venues while contributing in excess of $43 million in local economic impact every year exclusively from its performing arts activity (according to a Cleveland State University 2004 study).

The not-for-profit PlayhouseSquare is not only a tourist destination, economic development engine, entertainment presenter and producer and a district real estate developer, has become a national leader in arts education, creating the nationally-acclaimed and much-copied "Partners in Performance" bus subsidy program that, as of 2009, has funded the bussing of 60,000-plus students to shows.

Today PlayhouseSquare's nine performance spaces include the Palace, State, Ohio, Allen, Hanna and 14th Street Theatres, as well as Kennedy's Cabaret, the Westfield Insurance Studio Theatre and Star Plaza.

PlayhouseSquare's original five venues (Ohio, Palace, State, Allen and Hanna) were constructed in the 1920s in a mere 19 months. Impacted by the rise of television and population flight to suburbia, by 1968-'69 all but the Hanna were eventually boarded up, as entertainment also moved to the suburbs. But in the 1970s, a grass-roots effort saved the historic venues from the wrecking ball, restoring and re-opening the theaters one by one, ushering in a new era of downtown revitalization, which was heralded by the media as "one of the top 10 successes in Cleveland history."



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