The historic theater hosted its first ticketed event in more than 50 years back in 2022, and new renovations and additions to the building aim to bring it back to the center of downtown Augusta life.
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Update: Work continues on Augusta’s Colonial Theater
Photographer Joe Phelan captures the work in progress on a new stage and an addition over the Kennebec River, work is scheduled to be completed later this year.
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Colonial Theater to host its first show in 53 years in downtown Augusta
Las Vegas magician and mind reader Kent Axell, who grew up in Manchester, to lift curtain Friday for the first ticketed public performance at the historic theater since it closed in 1969.
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Augusta’s Colonial Theater secures $160,229 in historic preservation funds
The award, one of four given statewide, will pay for repairs to exterior doors and windows for the theater as part of an initiative to drive economic development in rural downtowns.