The Broome County Forum Theatre, also known as the Forum, Capri Theatre, and the Broome Center for the Performing Arts, is a historic
theater
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actor, actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The p ...
, which is located at
Binghamton
Binghamton () is a city in the U.S. state of New York, and serves as the county seat of Broome County. Surrounded by rolling hills, it lies in the state's Southern Tier region near the Pennsylvania border, in a bowl-shaped valley at the conflue ...
in
Broome County, New York
Broome County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 United States census, the county had a population of 198,683. Its county seat is Binghamton. The county was named for John Broome, the state's lieutenant governor when Br ...
. The theater seats 1,522 with a pit orchestra and 1,553 without one.
The building consists of two parts: the main, rectangular theater block completed in 1919 and the primary entrance and lobby area constructed in 1981 (non-contributing). The theater block is constructed of brick and cast stone over a concrete basement. It features a theater pipe organ.
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The Forum serves as the home performing venue for the
Binghamton Philharmonic and the
Tri-Cities Opera.
The theatre was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 2008.
References
External links
The Forum Theatre , Broome County, NY website
Buildings and structures in Binghamton, New York
History of Broome County, New York
National Register of Historic Places in Broome County, New York
Theatres on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Performing arts centers in New York (state)
Residential buildings completed in 1919
Tourist attractions in Binghamton, New York
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