The club is known for its good acoustics and has become a favored performance space for Americana, bluegrass and rock acts.
Actor Riz Ahmed is witty on how the post-9/11 airport has become an ethnic performance space; so often is he searched at Heathrow – by the same middle-aged Sikh guy – that "I instinctively started calling him Uncle, as is the custom for Asian elders.
Another project, the New Jersey Arts Incubator, is being developed in West Orange with a performance space that could become home to theater companies while they develop business plans to become financially stable, according to Amy Simon, its executive director.
In the late 1960s its owners revamped it as a performance space, and it became one of a handful of midsize stages on the East Coast where top acts regularly performed, along with the Capitol Theater in Passaic, N.J., and the better known Fillmore East in Manhattan.
This enclosure contains a performance space; here, the steps become levels for fixed, armchair seating.
Although the club has only been operating for two and a half years, it's become New York's most prominent D.I.Y. venue, a performance space run without institutional financial backing, a formally trained staff, or many of the necessary permits.
The Canteen was a spot in Memorial Park in Athens, which became an important performance space after local musician Terry "Mad Dog" Melton and his group began playing there in 1958.
Front of house facilities had become increasingly dilapidated at the library in what was built as a lecture theatre, not a performance space.
