On June 12, the Charles R. Wood Theater will open thanks to a community-wide effort to convert the former Woolworth’s building into a permanent performing arts facility.  Since its inception in 1999, the Woolworth Theater Project has brought together the best strengths, hopes, and possibilities:  a business community with strong local roots and an understanding that we must do the heavy lifting for economic development ourselves, an arts community with a long history of involving all aspects of our community and striving for excellence, and a philanthropic tradition that now as much as ever makes this a place rich with wonderful opportunities.

The Woolworth Theater Project (now the Charles R. Wood Theater) has been designed with the specific mission of creating as much activity by as wide a spectrum of performing groups as possible.  Adirondack Theatre Festival, Glens Falls Community Theater, and Adirondack Children's Troupe will be calling the Charles R. Wood Theater home.  Its 300 seats were determined to be the optimal number to generate performance nights and its stage facilities suited to many of the region's performing entities. The spacious rehearsal area and proposed basement rehearsal/performance space will add to the activity level.

The Design Team of Glens Falls' Joy McCoola & Zilch, P.C. as architects and New York City's Minds Eye Consultants as theater consultants has created a space which will be functional, flexible, and comfortable. Besides the theater, the building will also contain retail, office and rehearsal space, all consistent with the economic development portion of the Project's goals.

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