A theater company — not to mention a children’s theater company — couldn’t be housed in a more prominent location.
The grand opening for The Judy Kafoury Center for Youth Arts, or “The Judy,” will be from noon to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, April 29, at the new Northwest Children’s Theater home at 1000 S.W. Broadway, where there used to be Regal Multiplex movie theaters, directly across the street from Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.
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