The Greenwich Odeum, a fabled East Greenwich, RI vaudeville theater built in 1926, will be the future home of a monthly Poets Nite. Since its construction as the The Greenwich Theater, is has hosted traveling vaudeville acts, turned to showing movies, and closed in 1990. In 1993, the theater was re-opened as a community theater. It was closed several years after the tragic Station Night Club fire led to a re-writing of the state's fire laws for public venues.
Now, with a new board of directors and a complete renovation of the fire systems, seating, and interior spaces, the theater is scheduled to re-open to the public March 31, 2012.
A poets group, founded by Eve Leilou Colon, inspired the development of this new monthly Poets Nite at the theater, bringing new writing, poetry, and music to this historical building located on the main street of this South County town.
The first Poets Nite will launch in April. Stay tuned for a further announcement of the date and time.
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