Community Arts Center
220 West Fourth Street
Williamsport, PA 17701
Official Site
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Phone: (570)
326-2424
or (800) 432-9382
Fax: 570.327.7663
Box Office Hours:
Monday - Friday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Saturday, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Day of Show ONE hour before
performance
(Summer weekend hours vary.)
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COMMUNITY ARTS
CENTER From the
ashes of Williamsport’s Sterling
Hotel came the 1928-vintage Capitol
Theatre. 65 years later, this last
remnant of Williamsport’s gilded age
of live theatres reopened as the
Community Arts Center. In between,
this “grand old lady” had been
everything from “the palace of gold”
to a tax write-off for a
hairdressing school. Only through
the efforts of local residents and
businesses, and the insight and
vision of three key players, kept
this most elaborate of theatres from
the wrecking ball.
Constructed, owned
and operated by the Comerford
Amusement Company, its president
M.E. Comerford promised his Capitol
Theatre would “give the City of
Williamsport a new, beautiful,
modern and up-to-date vaudeville
theatre.” It was, at its opening in
1928 (at the top of the stock market
bubble of the Roaring Twenties), the
largest movie house in the area and
the first to be originally equipped
for sound movies.
On October 22,
2008, the Old Lady will be turning
80. The theatre has seen over 700
performances and well over 1,910
movies screenings as the Community
Arts Center alone. All told, the
echoes of shows that had tread its
board in eight decades numbered into
the thousands, and movie screenings
into the tens of thousands.
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