Providence Performing Arts Center
Location
The Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC), formerly Loew's State Theatre and Palace Concert Theater, is a multi-use not-for-profit theater located at 220 Weybosset Street in downtown Providence, Rhode Island. It was built in 1928 as a movie palace by the Loews Theatres chain to designs by Rapp & Rapp, the leading designers of music palaces at the time. PPAC contains 3,100 seats and hosts touring Broadway shows, concerts, plays and films.[3][4][5][6][7]
The theater was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 under the name "Loew's State Theatre".[1]
Old Loew's name
The marquee at night in 2017
The theater's interior
