The Mansfield Theater has hosted a myriad of events from Broadway shows and movies to symphonic performances and rock concerts. Performers such as Yo-Yo-Ma, Bonnie Rait, Charley Pride, Weird Al Yankovic and Hal Holbrook have graced the stage. Built in the 1930s under the Works Progress Administration Project, the plush Mansfield Theater showcases its historic elegance through intricate architecture and acoustics that are unrivaled in the state. The intimate 1,785-seat venue is adaptable for symphony concerts, ballet, grand opera, road shows, country and rock music spectaculars, musical stage productions, travelogues, conventions and lectures.
The first uses of the theater included performances of both "vaudeville" stage shows and film presentations. After the demise of large-theater movie showings in the early 1970s, the facility was infrequently used, and then only by local symphony and community concert presentations. In the last 15 years the theater has been revitalize both in use and subsequent upgrading of original equipment.
The seats in the theater were renovated in the fall of 1995.
Total seats: 1785
Main floor seating: 922 (includes 23 seats handicap/companion seats)
Loge (lower balcony) seating: 282
Upper balcony seating: 581
From south side of the Mansfield Convention Center access is through public double doors; then up one and a half flights of stairs and forward to stage right theater door. Ramps may be used on stairs.
From west side of the Mansfield Convention Center access is through an overhead door; then walk through the convention room, and up ramped stairs with a left turn into main building and access to stage right theater door.
Trucks may be unloaded from the circle drive on the south side of the Mansfield Convention Center, but may not be backed up to the doors. All trucks must park in adjoining parking lots, accessed from River Drive, either behind the Children's Museum or the Energy West building.
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