I saw the tremendous energy and sometimes heartbreaking compromises necessary to maintain a performing-arts center today.

Moreover, anyone aware of performing-arts centers in the rest of the country should not be surprised that they have developed both audiences and new activities.

Groups in both towns hope to turn them into performing-arts centers offering a variety of cultural attractions.

The city also won state support for a proposed $200 million performing-arts center.

It includes retail and office space and a performing-arts center.

A performing-arts center is going up on the north side of downtown, near an expanding convention center.

And the village's music and dance programming is likely to expand in the next decade upon completion of a new 4,000-seat, $40 million performing-arts center.

The institute is also considering turning a building known as Robbins Hall into a performing-arts center.

It is one in a series planned to help raise funds for a new performing-arts center at the privately run school.

No performing-arts center in the country is without problems.