Centre Stage (theater)

The theater maintains a full-time staff of seven and produces between six and eight mainstage productions each year, in addition to a wide variety of other entertainment and nightlife activities.

), Centre Stage has expanded its range of entertainment and nightlife offerings to include art exhibitions, chamber concerts, independent film screenings and lectures on a wide variety of topics.

The theater's first performance space was inside the Greenville County Museum of Art and its first full production was presented in the St. Mary's Church gymnatorium.

In December 1996, ground was broken for the theater's current location at 501 River Street where it occupies 10,000 square feet (930 m2) of the 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m2) Citi-Smith Barney Building.

The Centre Stage New Play Festival (NPF) receives hundreds of scripts throughout the year submitted by playwrights from around the country and abroad.