There have been modernizing modifications to the fly lines. The lighting features new "top of the line and really beautiful" LED instruments.
Patrons will probably also notice that the walls are now framed with wooden slats that mirror the decor in the museum's central space, and that the theater has a new grand drape.Ībove and around the stage, those patrons might, or might not, notice that the sound in the space has undergone an upgrade - it has been acoustically balanced for the first time.
The floor underneath those seats has new carpet. The seats have been rearranged to provide new aisles - the seating arrangement used to involve just one big section - and with more space between rows and leveled seating for wheelchairs, both of which makes it easier to get in and out and provides better access for disabled patrons. "They're the best seats you can find," says Liz McMath, who is directing the premiere production, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show," which debuts Saturday. It's not entirely untouched - the stage is in the same place, and out in the house are the same 350 seats, but they have been comfortably reupholstered in golden cloth. After a four-year hiatus, due in smaller part to the covid-19 pandemic but more directly because of the rebuilding of what used to be the Arkansas Arts Center into the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, the institution's Children's Theatre is back - in a new form but in its old space.Īlthough the museum is almost entirely new, the architects retained the original theater space, now relabeled as the Performing Arts Theatre.
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