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THE STEVENS CENTER, one of the
City’s principal performance venues.

PERFORMING ARTS ORGANIZATIONS AND VENUES

Located on Fourth Street in downtown, the Stevens Center is and choral concert music, opera, oratorio, ballet, and popular
one of the City’s principal performance venues. A magni cently music. It’s one of the Southeast’s most highly regarded
restored, two-story 1,364-seat neoclassical theatre, it is the orchestras, with an annual program that includes about 20
primary performance space for the University of North performances.
Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA), the Winston-Salem As the oldest performing arts organization in the City, The
Symphony, Piedmont Opera Theatre, the National Black Little Theatre of Winston-Salem has been contributing to
Theatre Festival, and other local, national and international the performing arts scene for more than 80 years. Based on
performances each year. Each December it is transformed into Coliseum Drive just north of downtown, the Theatre produces
the fairy tale setting for UNCSA’s annual production of the at least six professional quality plays and musicals each year,
timeless holiday classic, “The Nutcracker.” The Piedmont Opera, involving hundreds of volunteers lending rst-class talent,
the second largest opera company in North Carolina, brings rst- energy, and countless hours to the performances. The group
rate regional, national and international singing actors and also o ers annual performances speci cally for school groups
technicians to work with a full orchestra and a chorus of local as well as acting classes and summer camps for youth.
singers. Enduring for more than 40 years, the Opera performs
two regularly scheduled productions each year in addition to Many other performing arts and theatrical groups are found in
numerous educational and outreach programs. Winston-Salem, including Triad Stage, the Winston-Salem
Theater Alliance, the Piedmont Chamber Singers, the
The Stevens Center is also the home base of the Winston- Piedmont Wind Symphony, Camel City Jazz Orchestra, the
Salem Symphony. For over 70 years, the group has been Winston-Salem Festival Ballet, Winston-Salem Youth
providing an array of repertoires, including classical orchestral Chorus, and more.

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