The Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival and Interference Series have banded together and found a new home in downtown Flagstaff.
Located in the old Beaver Street Brewery Banquet Room next to Burly Fish Tattoo, the Beaver Street Theatre is the first permanent, physical venue for the two nonprofits and is slated to celebrate its grand opening on April 23—the Bard’s birthday.
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Owen Davis, founder of the Interference Series, works on scraping floors during a volunteer workday on the space for the new Beaver Street Theatre.
Hattie Loper, Arizona Daily Sun
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Hannah Johnson, marketing director at FlagShakes, spackles the walls during a volunteer workday on the space for the new Beaver Street Theatre on Friday, Dec. 6.
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