Town Hall Arts Center

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**Town Hall Arts Center**
Town Hall Arts Center Logo
The front of Town Hall Arts Center in March, 2005
Location:	2450 W Main St, Littleton, CO, USA
Website:	www.townhallartscenter.com

Town Hall Arts Center is located in downtown Littleton, Colorado and has been a local professional theatre favorite, producing fine comedies, musicals and plays to the Denver Metro area for over 20 years.

1 Starting out
2 Moving on
3 Anniversary
4 Past Productions (By Year)
5 External links

[edit] Starting out

Built in the early 1920s as a new center for civic activities, the building contained city offices, a community meeting room (where the theatre is located today), a jail out back (where the loading dock now is) and the volunteer fire department (the trucks were parked in what is the lobby, and the reason that lobby floor still slopes).

By the late 1970s there was a new City Hall on Berry Street, some visionary citizens began to ponder the fate of the old building in the center of Main Street. Through a lot of fund-raising and hard work, in 1983, it opened as a performing arts center and art gallery.

[edit] Moving on

Today, the theatre is managed by a non-profit organization, The Littleton Center for Cultural Arts Foundation, Inc., doing business as Town Hall Arts Center, producing ten to twelve professional events a year, and offering professionally staffed multi-cultural events to school children through the popular Cultural Classroom.

In all, there are close to 150 performances presented each year, individual art shows in the Stanton Gallery, plus many community meetings in its facilities. These are accomplished with a volunteer Board of Directors, a full-time staff of four, seven part-time staffers and numerous volunteers.

The Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) through the Arapahoe County Cultural Council provides a major grant each year, with additional grants from the City of Littleton and the Littleton Independent newspaper, plus donations and sponsorships from businesses, organizations and individuals, in addition to the ticket revenues generated by the Town Hall presentations.