Architects and Coastal Carolina University representatives toured future performing arts theatre
Architects and others toured the former Broadway Theater on Main Street in Myrtle Beach this week to get a look at the building’s bones. The theater and two adjacent buildings are destined to become a 300-seat performing arts center for Coastal Carolina University and the Myrtle Beach community. City staff, along with the Downtown Master Plan architects and representatives from CCU, toured the buildings to get a feel for what’s involved in creating a performing arts center. As a former movie theater, the Broadway doesn’t have the fly space or back-of-house space that a performing arts theater would need. Plans call for the design and engineering to be complete next year, for construction to begin in 2021 and for the performing arts center to open in Spring 2022. It will house CCU’s theater and performing arts programs.
