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33-582: The Broward Center for the Performing Arts (commonly known as the Broward Center ) is a large multi-venue performing arts center located in downtown Fort Lauderdale , Florida , United States . Opened in 1991 on a 5.5-acre (22,000 m) site along the north bank of the New River at Sailboat Bend, the center became a catalyst for major downtown revitalization efforts and an anchor of

66-535: A conference/banquet/performance facility available for various types of activities, such as cabaret, dinner theater, rehearsals, and speaker programs as well as for public and private receptions and events. Parker Playhouse a nearly 1,200-seat theater now managed by the Broward Center's governing authority, PACA, this space is for concerts, theatre, comedy, and dance. Rose and Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center, equipped with lighting and acoustics, and

99-557: A managing partner of the Rose and Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center, located on the campus of Nova Southeastern University. A year later, Broward Center assumed management of the historic 1100-seat Parker Playhouse in east Fort Lauderdale. In 2007, Broward Center was chosen as the creative consultants to help guide the emerging Miramar Cultural Center/Arts Park in western Broward County through its early development. It will now manage operations of this new 800-seat theater, scheduled to open in

132-474: A means of generating new investment and increased economic activity and thus, a means for revitalizing neighborhoods as patrons are drawn to local restaurants and other businesses. PACs became a draw for touring shows and eventually included visual art in their facilities. Today, these centers are valuable civic resources that provide education, access, exchange of creative discourse, opportunities for cultural expression and awareness. A multi-use performance space

165-453: A satellite downlink for viewing broadcast and transmitted productions, this hall is used for many types of community events, corporate gatherings, lectures and children's productions. Performing arts center Performing arts center/centre (see spelling differences ), often abbreviated as PAC , is usually a complex housing performance spaces for various performing arts, including dance, music, and theatre. In some cases it refers to

198-595: A single multi-use space, or alternatively, to a performing arts college. The origin of the world's oldest performing art, Noh , dates back to the 6th and 7th centuries when performing arts came to Japan from mainland China. Starting in the 6th century BC, the Classical period of performing art began in Greece, ushered in by the tragic poets such as Sophocles . These poets wrote plays which, in some cases, incorporated dance (see Euripides ). The Hellenistic period began

231-415: Is a single space intended for use by various types of performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. The intended multiple use of performing arts centers in this sense differentiates them from single-purpose concert halls , opera houses , or theatres , although the actual use of single-purpose spaces for other than their intended use is widespread. This sort of space has a long history, extending to

264-618: Is not a true natural river , but a channel composed of many tributary canals. The channel is connected to the Everglades through a series of man-made canals. After passing through Fort Lauderdale , the channel connects to the Intracoastal Waterway and Atlantic Ocean at Port Everglades cut. The channel is entirely within Broward County and is composed from the junction of three main canals which originate in

297-942: Is the Celebrity Series of Boston renting venues in Boston's Boch Center . Examples of performance arts complexes include the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Sydney Opera House , and the Lincoln Center in New York City . For a selection of venues with these terms in their titles, see: New River (Broward County, Florida) The New River is a tidal estuary in South Florida , United States. Despite its name, it

330-672: The Everglades , splitting off from the Miami Canal . They are the North New River Canal, which flows south from Lake Okeechobee along the east side of U.S. 27 and then east along the north side of State Road 84 / Interstate 595 ; the South New River Canal, which flows east from the Miami Canal along the north side of Griffin Road and the south side of Orange Drive; and a canal which flows east along

363-764: The Go, Diego, Go! live. It was one of the most popular art performances that ever happened. In 1998, the Broward Center began a collaboration with neighboring merchants and cultural attractions along the New River that would evolve into the formation of the Riverwalk Arts and Entertainment District. This destination marketing organization features the Broward Center, The Museum of Art/Fort Lauderdale, Florida Grand Opera, Concert Association of Florida, Fort Lauderdale Historical Society, and Historic Stranahan House Museum. Formed to promote cultural tourism to Fort Lauderdale and to

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396-486: The New River (Himmarshee): Au-Rene Theater, the main performance space for major international, national and regional productions, including Miami City Ballet, Concert Association of Florida, Florida Grand Opera and Broadway Across America touring companies. Amaturo Theater, for dramatic productions as well as children's theater, film, community theater, choirs, chamber, jazz, folk and symphonic orchestras, seminars, and emerging dance companies. Abdo New River Room ,

429-587: The G-15 canal). Dredging for the canal began in 1906, not long after Napoleon B. Broward won the governorship of Florida on a promise to drain the Everglades. The canal extended approximately 42 miles south-southeast from Lake Okeechobee, then turned east-southeast and proceeded for approximately 16 miles to the former terminus of the river near what would become the Riverland section of Fort Lauderdale. The canal

462-476: The Performing Arts is in the downtown riverfront area, in the South Florida region. It has also become one of the USA's most-visited theaters, ranked number four in the world by Venues Today and seven worldwide by concert trade publication Pollstar for annual sales in 2007. As of 2011, the Broward Center received over 700,000 patrons annually with over 700 different events. Plans were also announced for an expansion to

495-627: The Riverwalk Arts and Entertainment District. Designed by Benjamin C. Thompson , the Broward Center hosts operas, ballets, concerts, plays, lectures and numerous community events in its four theaters. The Broward Center partners with several organizations, including the Symphony of the Americas, Florida Grand Opera , Miami City Ballet , Concert Association of Florida and Gold Coast Jazz. National tours of Broadway productions are presented in partnership with Broadway Across America. Broward Center for

528-561: The Riverwalk District, in particular, more than 1 million ticketed visitors annually attend programming at the combined Arts & Entertainment District partner venues. Broward Center management has taken a leadership role in strengthening arts throughout the community since its inception and that community-centered focus has resulted in several partnerships that have allowed the center to expand beyond its geographic borders in pursuit of its mission. In 2004 Broward Center became

561-659: The Roman Colosseum and Greek amphitheatres. A cluster of performance spaces, either separate buildings or under one roof, each space designed for a specific purpose such as symphonic music or chamber music or theatre, but multipurpose as a whole, are also described as performing arts centers. The modern version of this came into being only in the 1960s. In Australia, the Centre for the Performing in Adelaide

594-751: The South Fork was extended by two canals, one of which was the C-11 or South New River Canal, which connects to the Miami Canal . The South New River Canal also connects to the Dania Cutoff Canal, which leads eastward from the C-11 canal to the Intracoastal Waterway. The most significant extension of the New River, however, was the first, an extension of the South Fork called the North New River Canal (also known as

627-494: The canal bringing lumber, farm equipment, and people to communities such as Okeelanta and South Bay in the area south of the lake. The boats then ferried produce from the communities' farms back to the coast, where the goods were shipped north by rail. Due to shoaling (silting) in the canal and newly constructed road and rail links to the interior section, Lock No. 1 was closed to boat traffic in 1926. The canal itself became one of South Florida's major water control systems. It

660-721: The center to begin in spring 2012. The Florida legislature in 1984 established the Performing Arts Center Authority (PACA) to oversee construction, then policy-making, at the Broward Center. The Downtown Development Authority, along with citizens, private sources, and the Broward Performing Arts Foundation worked together to raise the funding required to build the theater complex. By the end of 1987, initial fundraising goals had been met and with supplementary grant monies from city, county, state, and national sources secured,

693-583: The fall of 2008. The Broward Center is governed by the Performing Arts Center Authority (the "Authority"), a volunteer board of 13 members. In October 2023, the Authority announced its appointment of Ty Sutton as president and CEO of the Broward Center. Sutton, who begins his new position on February 12, 2024, will succeed Kelley Shanley who has served as President & CEO since January 2009. Performance venues at BCPA, on

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726-512: The first national tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber 's The Phantom of the Opera . The tenth anniversary of the Broward Center was marked by retiring the entire building mortgage, 11 years ahead of schedule. In 2007, from June 28-July 1, they premiered the Go, Diego, Go! live. The Live was based on the episode titled "The Great Jaguar Rescue". The Broward Center for the Performing Arts was the last stop for

759-472: The mouth would not be on any previous maps, and from off the coast would appear as if it had just developed. With each charting, the location would be recorded with the notation "new river". Since that was the name used on the maps, that was the name by which the first settlers came to know it, so the name stayed. The area along the New River was occupied in prehistoric times by people of the Glades culture . At

792-507: The project went out to bid. The acclaimed Cambridge, Massachusetts architecture firm of Benjamin Thompson and Associates, Inc was selected to design the facility. A groundbreaking ceremony was held in May 1988 to initiate the building phase. By early 1991 the 224,500-square-foot (20,860 m) facility was completed at a cost of $ 54 million. The doors officially opened on February 26, 1991, with

825-519: The river Himmarshee , meaning "new water". The report of the Writers' Project attributed the noise and shaking to an earthquake which collapsed the roof of an underground river . Folk historian Lawrence Will relates that the Seminole name for the river was Coontie-Hatchee , for the coontie ( Zamia integrifolia ) that grew along the river, and that the chamber of commerce tried to change the name of

858-518: The river to Himmarshee-Hatchee during the Florida land boom of the 1920s . The English name is derived from early explorer's maps. The mouth of the river was noted for its tendency to continuously change its entry point into the Atlantic Ocean through the shifting sand of the barrier island. Each time the coast was surveyed and charted the entry point would have shifted. So the location of

891-675: The south side of Sunrise Boulevard . The Henry E. Kinney Tunnel in downtown Fort Lauderdale travels underneath the New River. According to a legend attributed in 1940 to the Seminoles by writers working in the Florida Writers’ Program of the Work Projects Administration , New River had appeared suddenly after a night of strong winds, loud noises, and shaking ground, resulting in the Seminoles calling

924-475: The time of first contact with Europeans, Tequesta people lived in the area. The Tequesta were gone by the middle of the 18th century. In 1788 Bahamians Charles and Frankee Lewis had established the earliest settlement along the river. The settlers fled the area with the start of the Second Seminole War , and the U.S. Army built a series of forts called Fort Lauderdale near the river. The first fort

957-514: The widespread use of comedy. Much of which was performed live in a center-point of the community. In 1576, Britain's first playhouse, "The Theatre", was built in Finsbury Fields , London. It was constructed by Leicester's Men – an acting company formed in 1559 from members of the Earl of Leicester's household. New performing arts centers emerged in the latter part of the 20th century as

990-625: Was the predecessor college of the Adelaide College of the Arts . The Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts is a college for Indigenous Australians in Brisbane . Some performing arts center organizations act as sole presenters for events using the venues within the center, but most also frequently rent their performance spaces to other performing arts presenters or self-presenting performing arts groups. An example of this practice

1023-405: Was completed in 1912 after construction of Lock No. 1, North New River Canal , in the southeast corner of what is today Plantation, Florida , just under 2 miles west of the current Fort Lauderdale city border. The North New River Canal served as a significant transportation route to and from the state's interior section south of Lake Okeechobee . Steamships and other boats traveled the length of

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1056-558: Was so clear that fish and even large sharks could be easily seen in its depths. Prior to the 20th century, the New River originated as two streams, the North Fork and South Fork, which merged and connected directly to the Atlantic Ocean via the now defunct New River Inlet. The river was heavily modified in the first half of the 20th century. The North Fork was extended as the C-12 Canal along present-day Sunrise Boulevard , while

1089-461: Was where the North and South Forks joined. The fort was later moved to Tarpon Bend, and then to the barrier island near present-day Bahia Mar. A trading post established in the 1890s by Frank Stranahan (1864–1929) at a ferry crossing of the New River became the nucleus of the city of Fort Lauderdale. Years later, Mrs. Ivy Stranahan recollected that in the early days of the trading post, the New River

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