(It encompasses three performing arts sites, with seating capacties ranging from 150 to 3,400).
Arts sites like the Centro Gabriela Mistral, which opened in September, along with cutting-edge galleries, boutiques and stand-out restaurants, attest to an urban scene that has blossomed in the wake of a repressive dictatorship now long dead.
TESTING the theory that if you build them, they will come, two new performing arts sites have opened on Long Island: the Smithtown Center for the Performing Arts and the Dix Hills Performing Arts Center.
Other performing arts sites like the Warner in Torrington, the Palace in Waterbury, the Stamford Center for the Performing Arts and Polka Dot Playhouse in Bridgeport have benefited from the state's largesse.
The group, founded in 1957, is the nation's largest advocacy and service organization for the performing arts, whose members represent 1,100 nonprofit and university-based theaters, dance halls and other performing arts sites around the country.
At the same time this drama was playing itself out, various sources -- some of them public -- were committing tens of millions of dollars to build and renovate performing arts sites around the state.
