24th Street Theatre is an arts organization like no other. Built in 1928 as a carriage house, these walls were once home to the working horses of the grand Victorian homes in this neighborhood, many of which still stand today. Thus, this historic old building has always served a useful purpose - in its past and now in its present. Since 24th Street Theatre's beginning in 1997, the organization has taken on a life of its own. We started out just intending to do plays. But we quickly found that this was a neighborhood that deserved and demanded so much more than we had planned to give. It was a neighborhood with as much character as our old charming carriage house.
We began doing Outreach projects with the local kids, then Art Exhibits, then Music, and then the Arts Education projects with the neighborhood schools. With the given that all of our programming must be of the highest caliber, we began to use our art as a tool with which to bring people back to this old building and to the neighborhood - a tool with which to make people remember.. or sometimes forget. Today we are proud to be a leader in Arts Education, Community Outreach and quality professional theatre for young and old alike. We owe it all to the richness of our environment. Our work in these first years has taken us down an avenue unplanned at our outset, down an exciting street where first class art for all ages intersects with the powerful results of the art itself: 24th Street.
