About SCA

Stamford Center for the Arts (SCA), a not-for-profit 501 (c) (3) cultural arts organization, is dedicated to serving as the region’s premier center for the performing arts. SCA owns and operates two facilities: the recently renovated and restored historic Palace Theatre (61 Atlantic Street) and the state-of-the-art Rich Forum (307 Atlantic Street), both within four blocks of each other in downtown Stamford, Connecticut.

The Palace Theatre, a 1580-seat Thomas Lamb-designed vaudeville house, was acclaimed as “Connecticut’s Most Magnificent” when it opened in 1927. It was restored and re-opened in 1983 for live theatre, opera, dance and concerts plus art exhibitions in the Sackler Gallery. A multi-phase Palace Improvement Project has already provided the Palace Theatre with a deeper (larger than Broadway-size) stage, new dressing rooms, wardrobe and costume maintenance facilities as well as other technical-support facilities and improved services. The second phase of Palace Improvement Project includes the Richard & Hinda Rosenthal Concourse, Roslyn & Leslie Goldstein Foyer, Roslyn & Elliot Jaffe Café Teatro, Jean A. Rich Founders’ Room, Carolyn & Robert Neu Grand Stair, Hiddlestone Suites, Marilyn & Lawrence Gochberg Box Office, Sky Bridges from the new addition to the mezzanine and Sackler Gallery levels, Grand Tier, other function areas, state-of-the-art box office, elevators, coat checkroom and additional restrooms on the main and upper levels. Still to be completed on sub-street level are the Amy Rich Theatre, a 199-seat theatre with dressing rooms and wardrobe facilities plus the Pitney Bowes Learning Center.

Rich Forum, which opened in 1992, is an arts center that includes the 757-seat Truglia (proscenium) Theatre; the Leonhardt Studio the glass-enclosed main lobby and reception area (Mercede Promenade) that can also serve as an alternative performance/display space and the box office. The Rich Forum is currently leased by NBC Universal as a television production studio. Renovations to the space included extensive state-of-the-art television studios created to accommodate multiple television productions with live audiences and extensive office and technical support space.

In addition to a full season of cultural and entertainment events, The Palace Theatre is also home to the Ballet School of Stamford, Connecticut Ballet, Lumina String Quartet’s Chamber Music Institute, Stamford Symphony, and Stamford Young Artists Philharmonic.