Stage Right, Performing Arts
Photo: Michael Beaumont (left) and Daniel Cort (right)
PERFORMING ARTS CENTER PLANNED IN BLUFFTON
Two local organizations have teamed up to bring a performing arts center to Bluffton. In 2010, church leadership started discussing how a performing arts space fit into the church’s mission: “love God, love people and bring the two together.”
Live Oak Christian Church and Main Stage Community Theatre are combining their efforts to build a cultural arts center on property the church owns near Old Town Bluffton. The 400-seat venue, leaders of both groups say, will have a variety of uses, from housing the church to theater productions by local and national talent, plus uses by other local organizations.
“Our desire is not to build a church building that the community uses. It’s to build a performing arts center that the church uses.”