Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center
Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center is located in downtown West Chester, PA. The theater has eight resident companies with three separate performance spaces. Uptown! is a venue for TEDxWestChester events, hosts a monthly Speaker Series and shows classic films. In addition, Uptown! also hosts the West Chester Studio for the Performing Arts and is able to offer lessons, classes and summer camps to K-12 students. The theater also enjoys a partnership with the YMCA a half a block away, the West Chester Area School District serving as a venue for student orchestra and choral concerts and enjoys an onsite education program with St. Agnes School two blocks away. With over 50 performing arts organizations within a 10-mile radius, the theater is fast becoming a home for groups such as the Concordia Chorus, Brandywine Singers, Brandywine Ballet and Balance Dance Company.
MORE ABOUT THIS VENUE
Venue Type: Performing Arts Center
LOCATION
Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center
226 North High Street, West Chester, PA 19380
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Accessibility Information
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Wheelchair Access
ADDITIONAL ACCESSIBILITY INFO: Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center has an outdoor lift on the South side of the building and a patron elevator that reaches all three floors of the building and handicapped seating.
PARKING INFO
The closest public parking for the Knauer Performing Arts Center is the Chestnut Street Garage at 14 East Chestnut Street.
Two-hour parking is available in the short term parking area on the ground floor. Pay at the lower level kiosk and display your ticket on your car’s dashboard.
Upper Level Garage hours and rates are posted: you receive a parking stub when you enter, and pay when you leave. Many business and restaurants validate your garage ticket with purchase, so take it with you.
- Metered parking is available on-street and in several parking lots. Meters take quarters and/or credit cards, 10-minutes for each quarter up to three-hours (or longer at the parking lot at Chestnut & Church Streets). Metered parking is enforced Monday through Friday and beginning at 5pm on Saturday. Once the time on the meter has expired, parked cars are subject to a parking ticket. Parking on Sunday is free.
- Parking in the Justice Center Parking Garage is free after 5pm Friday through Sunday.
- There is free street parking on several area streets; please read all signs.
- Handicapped parking is available in the lot adjacent to the building.
Alternative parking information can be found at the West Chester Business Improvement District’s website. There is plenty of metered parking on the streets surrounding the Knauer Performing Arts Center.
