Providence Performing Arts Center
PPAC
A theater converted from a lavish 1928 movie palace, now staging Broadway tours and concerts year-round.
The Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) opened in 1928 as the Loew’s State Theatre. Its hall, with gilded ceilings and crystal chandeliers and seating for about 3,100, is now New England’s major venue for Broadway touring shows. Productions such as Hamilton and The Lion King have played here. Tickets for performances cost about $40 to $150 and can be bought on the official website. Architectural tours are offered occasionally. The theater is on Weybosset Street downtown, close to Federal Hill and the WaterFire riverbanks.
Opening hours
Depends on performance times
Nearby sights
- Westminster Arcade
- WaterFire & Waterplace Park
- First Baptist Church in America
- Providence Athenaeum
- RISD Museum
- Benefit Street
- John Hay Library
- Roger Williams National Memorial