Town Hall Arts Center

Town Hall Arts Center is located in downtown Littleton, Colorado and has been a local professional theatre favorite, producing fine comedies, musicals and plays to the Denver Metro area for over 20 years.

tarting out

Designed by prominent Colorado architect Jacques Benedict and built in 1920 as a new center for civic activities, the building contained city offices, a community meeting room (where the theatre is located today), a jail out back (where the loading dock now is) and the volunteer fire department (the trucks were parked in what is the lobby, and the reason that lobby floor still slopes).

By the late 1970s there was a new City Hall on Berry Street, some visionary citizens began to ponder the fate of the old building in the center of Main Street. Through a lot of fund-raising and hard work, in 1983, it opened as a performing arts center and art gallery.

Moving on

Today, the theatre is managed by a non-profit organization, The Littleton Center for Cultural Arts Foundation, Inc., doing business as Town Hall Arts Center, producing ten to twelve professional events a year, and offering professionally staffed multi-cultural events to school children through the popular Cultural Classroom.

In all, there are close to 150 performances presented each year, individual art shows in the Stanton Gallery, plus many community meetings in its facilities. These are accomplished with a volunteer Board of Directors, a full-time staff of four, seven part-time staffers and numerous volunteers.

The Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) through the Arapahoe County Cultural Council provides a major grant each year, with additional grants from the City of Littleton and the "Littleton Independent" newspaper, plus donations and sponsorships from businesses, organizations and individuals, in addition to the ticket revenues generated by the Town Hall presentations.

Current Season Productions

Town Hall Arts Center is now celebrating its 27th Anniversary Season in 2008-2009
*"The Full Monty - "September 19, 2008 through October 26, 2008
*"The Further Adventures of Maide Marian" (Children's Theatre)- October 6, 2008 through October 18, 2008
*"Beauty and the Beast" - November 14, 2008 through December 28, 2008
*"My Way - A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra" - January 9, 2009 through February 8, 2009
*"Gypsy" - February 20, 2009 through March 29, 2009
*"Bat Boy the Musical" - April 10, 2009 through May 10, 2009
*"Destination Dinosaurs" (Children's Theatre) - April 27, 2009 through May 7, 2009
*"Oklahoma" - May 232 2009 through June 28, 2009

Past Productions (By Year)

(Cultural Classroom children's shows are in smaller fonts)

2003
*"8-Track"
*"The Sound Of Music"

2004
*"How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying"
*"Just So Stories"
*"Jesus Christ Superstar"
*"Androcles And The Lion"
*"Honk!"
*"The Fantasticks"
*"Annie"

2005
*"Kiss Me, Kate"
*"Forever Plaid"
*"Alexander & The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day"
*"The Music Man"
*"West Side Story"
*"Little Women - The Musical"

2006
*"The Odd Couple (Female Version)"
*"Chorus Line"
*"Bye Bye Birdie"
*"The King And I"
*"Cabaret"
*"Miss Nelson Has a Field Day"
*"Cinderella"

2007
*"I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change"
*"Footloose"
*"1776"
*"Charlotte's Web"
*"My Fair Lady"
*"Nunsense A-Men"
*"Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat"

2008
*"Always...Patsy Cline"
*"Cinderella! Cinderella!"
*"Fiddler on the Roof"
*"Swingtime Canteen"
*"The Hobbit"
*"Company"

External links

* [http://www.townhallartscenter.com/ Official Town Hall Arts Center Website]
* [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?hh:3:./temp/~pp_aalz:: History and photographs of the old Town Hall] at Historic American Buildings Survey