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Sunoco Performance Theater...

Features 664 seats including 14 theater boxes within Orchestra, Mezzanine and Balcony levels. Audience capacity: Orchestra level, 382 seats; Mezzanine Level, 130 seats; Balcony Level, 152 seats. Seating is reduced to 627 with Orchestra Pit seats eliminated
Currently hosts nine Resident Companies: Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Concertante, Camp Curtin Branch YMCA Writer's Voice Center, Harrisburg Choral Society, Harrisburg Opera Association, Market Square Concerts, Susquehanna Chorale, Theatre Harrisburg and The Wednesday Club.
Ensures every patron a clear view of the stage with its gently raked seating area
Ensures that no patron is seated more than 65 feet from the stage
Showcases a stage similar to some well-known Broadway theaters: Proscenium width, 40'; Proscenium height, 28', stage depth, 45'; stage width, 80', stage height to underside of gridiron, 51'

Auditorium statistics include: width of room, 60', stage edge to rear Orchestra seat, 61'; stage edge to front Mezzanine seat, 50'; stage edge to front balcony seat, 53'

Acoustics: volume per seat, 300-350 CF per seat; reverberation time (changeable), 1.3 to 2.0 seconds; background noise level, PNC25
Features a stage door that is 11' wide and 25' high
Includes an orchestra pit with mechanical lift that includes a below grade chair lift, making it one of the first handicap accessible orchestra pits
Has over 350 places throughout the theater to plug in a stage light
Features a specially temperature controlled and humidified room to store two nine foot Steinway pianos
Is generously supported by Sunoco, Inc.

 

 

 

   

WHITAKER CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND THE ARTS
222 MARKET STREET, HARRISBURG, PA 17101
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