Stamford Center for the Arts — Attraction in Stamford

Mary C. Vuono built the Vuono's Palace Theatre opening on June 2, 1927 at 61 Atlantic St., with 1,580 seats, was originally a "Thomas W. Lamb" designed vaudeville house. It was restored and re-opened in 1983 for live theatre, concerts and art exhibitions. There was another theater The Strand built right next door. Mary C. Vuono's husband was in the construction business in Stamford and immigrated from southern Italy in the early 1900s through Ellis Island to Brooklyn first and then relocated to Stamford. As poor immigrants, they left Potenza, Italy because they were told "The streets were paved with gold in America." First there was vaudeville, then silent movies and of course Mary C Vuono loved the Opera! It is a miracle this venue has withstood the test of time. Stamford History Center has more information if anyone is interested. BTW, I live in San Francisco and "The Fox Theatre" was a 4,651-seat movie palace located at 1350 Market Street in SF, CA. The theater was designed by the noted theater architect, "Thomas W. Lamb" as well. It opened in 1929, the theater operated until 1963, when it was closed and demolished. Sadly it is gone. So you are lucky to have the Stamford Center...

This was the first time I've been to this venue. Never having been there before, I had to rely on digital seating charts for the theatre's layout. Wanted to get the best seats I could for this year's production of Shen Yun. My seats were fantastic. The reason, is that there is no such thing as a bad seat in this location! While I'd purchased orchestra tickets, I truly believe that mezzanine seating would've been just fine!

Yes, the show was absolutely worth seeing. However, for the price of the tickets, I really think the house could have been in much better condition. After the performance, I looked at the interior of the edifice itself - lots of chipped paint + crumbling molding. I realize that the Palace Theatre is quite old, but it ought to be in better condition.

FYI - when departing the building, save yourself some time by going out the side exits rather than egressing through the main entrance/exit.

Also, do your best to arrive early. Once a show begins, it's next to impossible to find your row, much less your seats, due to lack of proper lighting...

The place is amazing, we were in the mezzanine area, really good concert. The 4 star is because the system they have seems to waste a lot of time, it creates confusion, and even got to experience customers fighting because one of them did not respect the line,and it got bad. I know we all were in a rush, time crunch for the concert, and after making the line we had to do another line to print out the tickets(that's were the fighting started to happen) all ppl got frustated, mad,etc. And then we had to make the line again to get in, then another line to go the the 2nd floor, then get in and try to find out the seats, very crazy night. I got there just in time when the artist started to sign the 1st song(so was lucky to get in just in time after making all those lines) felt bad for other ppl fighting, but based on time I did not intervine,and also it's up to security to do something about it. Which honest did not see any on the outside, only after the 2nd doors -main lobby- a few, but not enough for what was going on that...