Rows of untouched seats face a stage still smelling faintly of sawdust and fresh paint. The air is quiet, almost reverent, as if the newly constructed theater is holding its breath before the curtain rises. After years of planning, one of the remaining puzzle pieces of Arts District Liberty Station is finally falling into place: the $43.5 million Joan and Irwin Jacobs Performing Arts Center (The Joan).
Named in honor of co-benefactor Joan Jacobs, The Joan is the new home of Cygnet Theatre, which spent the past two decades in Old Town.
“This is beyond anything we’ve ever done,” says Lisa Johnson, president and CEO of Arts District Liberty Station (formerly NTC Foundation). “It’s going to elevate our entire Liberty Station community.”
The new space opened with a ribbon cutting on September 5 and an official grand opening on September 13.
