Kimmel Center For The Performing Arts - Performance and Other Facilities

Performance and Other Facilities

All are located under a distinctive vaulted glass ceiling. The Center itself is a popular attraction, keeping its doors open to the public seven days a week. It hosts thousands of visitors annually who are able to take free tours of the facility.

  • Verizon Hall, with 2,500 seats, is the main performance auditorium. It contains a pipe organ by Dobson Pipe Organ Builders, which is the largest mechanical action pipe organ in an American concert hall.
  • Perelman Theater, with 650 seats, has a 75-foot (23 m)-diameter turntable stage that permits the space to be used as a recital hall or a proscenium theater with a stage, fly-loft and orchestra pit.
  • Dorrance H. Hamilton Roof Garden located above the Perelman Theater.
  • Smaller performance spaces and meeting rooms.

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