Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC)
Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) in Kingston: 1927 movie palace with 1,500 seats and largest proscenium between Manhattan and Albany.
UPAC opened on Broadway in Kingston on June 9, 1927, built by local entrepreneur Harry Lazarus and designed by architect Douglas P. Hall as a movie palace and vaudeville house, with a Wurlitzer organ and a ten-piece house orchestra. Walter Reade bought in two years later and ran it as a first-run movie house into the 1950s, when a 1954 remodel swapped the original marquee for the neoclassical portico still standing out front and renamed it the Community Theatre. By 1977 the Reade organization had gone bankrupt and the building sat dark until three Kingston residents formed a nonprofit to buy it back and reopen it as UPAC.
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