The Dean Crowe Theatre & Arts Centre is a

theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually 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 perform ...

and arts space in Athlone,

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History

Built in 1800 the building served as the parish church for 137 years. The altar was placed against the wall in the middle of the building, seating on three sides, with three galleries overhead. In 1937 the present day church of SS. Peter and Paul was completed, and so the building was converted to use as a

parochial hall A church hall or parish hall is a room or building associated with a church, generally for community and charitable use.

, and later, a theatre and centre for the arts. In the 1960s, the theatre building was home to the newly founded St. Aloysius College.

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Buildings and structures in Athlone County Westmeath Theatres in the Republic of Ireland {{Ireland-theat-struct-stub