{"id":354605,"date":"2026-09-23T13:48:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T13:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/354605\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T13:48:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T13:48:19","slug":"97-year-old-movie-palace-in-the-bronx-to-become-performing-arts-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/354605\/","title":{"rendered":"97-Year-Old Movie Palace in the Bronx to Become Performing Arts Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1854614\" title=\"The Paradise Performing Arts Center (Rendering by JP Martin Studio)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/7ebdb72d-d0c1-24ab-989d-05b6e241f08a.jpg\" alt=\"The Paradise Performing Arts Center (Rendering by JP Martin Studio)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"\/>The Paradise Performing Arts Center <br \/>(Rendering by JP Martin Studio)<\/p>\n<p>The Loew\u2019s Paradise Theater, a 97-year-old landmark in the Bronx and one of the original five New York City \u201cwonder theatres\u201d will soon be a full performing arts center, the new Paradise Performing Arts Center.<\/p>\n<p>The project is spearheaded by a new management team that includes theatrical producer Scott Perrin, producer and theater owner Peter Martin, and real estate operator Charles Piazza. A press preview and community welcome event is scheduled for November 10.<\/p>\n<p>The Paradise Performing Arts Center will have 4,000 seats, making it the second-largest theater in New York after Radio City Music Hall.<\/p>\n<p>The restoration is intended to return the Paradise as closely as possible to how the theater looked when it first opened in 1929, including restoring the original ceiling with stars and moving clouds, with the additions of a rooftop outdoor performance stage, restaurant, bar, and gift store.<\/p>\n<p>Programming at the new venue, which will reflect the diversity of the Bronx while serving as a center for culture, education, economic development, and neighborhood engagement, will include live stage shows, concerts, stand-up comedy, family shows, dance, film and educational events.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/paradisepac.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Paradise Performing Arts Center (Rendering by JP Martin Studio) The Loew\u2019s Paradise Theater, a 97-year-old landmark in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-354605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}