The Center originally featured a 2,600 seat proscenium theater with one balcony, an exhibition hall, offices and meeting rooms. The renovation seat count is about 2,214. The theatre was reconfigured to create a more intimate audience experience, stage, backstage and lobby areas were improved and expanded, and new ballroom over looking the Arkansas River was added. Robinson Center reopened in 2017.
Robinson Center
Little Rock, AR
Little Rock’s historic Robinson Center first opened its doors in 1939. Over the years Robinson Center has hosted many famous performers including Elvis Presley, Louis Armstrong, Bill Cosby, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole and many others.
Schuler Shook provided theatre planning and design services including include theatre seating, orchestra pit lift, stage rigging, stage curtains and tracks, variable acoustical draperies, orchestra enclosure, and stage lighting systems.
Project Details
Service
Architect
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Ennead / Polk Stanley Wilcox
Acoustician
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Jaffe Holden
Recognition
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AIA Arkansas Honor Award, 2018
