Performing Arts / Production Arts

Astoria Performing Arts Center
31-60 33rd Street
(718) 278-5925
New Astoria-based theater center.
Kaufman-Astoria Studios
34-12 36th Street
718.392.5600
www.kaufmanastoria.com
Motion picture and television production facility where motion pictures, television shows, and Sesame Street, Cosby, and many other T.V. shows are taped. Call well in advance for tickets to tapings.

La Guardia Performing Arts Center
31-10 Thomson Avenue
718.482.5151
www.lagcc.cuny.edu
Offers a wide variety of cultural and education programs in music, dance, and theater including concerts and other special events. Two theaters, which seat 740 and 220 people, are available for rental to performing arts and community groups.

LICAP (Long Island City Arts Project)
718.340.8493
lic.arts@aol.com
A local performing arts group producing plays and arts cafes. Art cafes involve open-mike and performance arts twice monthly at the LIC Café.

Queens Symphony Orchestra
80-00 Cooper Avenue, Bldg. 22
Glendale, NY 11385
718.786.8880
www.queenssymphony.org
This organization performs throughout the borough of Queens to an approximate audience of 50,000 patrons a year. Concerts are held outdoors in the parks, as well as at Flushing Town Hall, LaGuardia Community College, Queens College, and St. Johns University.

Silvercup Studios
42-22 22nd Street
718.784.3390
www.silvercupstudios.com
Formerly the Silvercup Bakery, the facility was converted in 1983 to house motion picture, commercial, and music video productions.

Thalia Spanish Theatre
41-17 Greenpoint Avenue
718.729.3880
www.thaliatheatre.org
info@thaliatheatre.org
The only Spanish-English theater in Queens, Thalia Spanish Theatre produces plays, musicals, and dance performances with an emphasis on Spanish and Latin American cultural traditions.

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