The group moved to the Dock Street Theatre in 1954 and retained this building for training and for productions by other groups. The Footlight Players presented the last production at the Academy on King Street before its destruction. The theater seats nearly 300 and a wood carving from the Academy of Music hangs over the stage. The Footlight Players, founded as a community theatre effort, acquired the building through the generosity of Eliza Duncan Kammerer, a preservationist and philanthropic figure in Charleston's artistic renaissance. Restaurants near Footlight Players, Charleston on Tripadvisor: Find traveler reviews and candid photos of dining near Footlight Players in Charleston, South Carolina. The 1,500-square-foot building is so much to maintain and thus the.
Running 140 feet to the rear along Philadelphia Alley, once called Cow Alley, the building served as a warehouse until 1932. Footlight Players, the 87-year-old community theater company located on Queen Street, is turning its building into multi-discipline performing arts center. The long-term goal at Footlight is to increase the endowment to ensure the theater is at Queen Street for another 85-plus years. This 2-story building, built as a cotton warehouse in about 1830 by Arthur Kiddle, retains a high degree of its original exterior character with its arched ground floor openings, gabled parapet with a central lunette, and weathered coat of lime and sand stucco. Footlight Players: Footlight Players at Queen Street Theater - See 38 traveler reviews, 3 candid photos, and great deals for Charleston, SC, at Tripadvisor. 20 Queen Street (Footlight Players Workshop)Ĭonstructed ca.
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