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Edmonds Center for the Arts
Categories: Arts & Entertainment Music Venues Nightlife Music Venues Arts & Entertainment Performing Arts Music Venues, Performing Arts [Edit]
410 4th Ave NEdmonds, WA 98020
(425) 275-9595
- Hours:
Mon-Thu 12 pm - 5 pm
Fri 12 pm - 3 pm
- Parking:
- Street, Private Lot
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Price Range:
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$$
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Music:
- Live
- Happy Hour:
- No
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Smoking:
- No
- Coat Check:
- No
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
5 reviews for Edmonds Center for the Arts
5 reviews in English
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Review from Tom B.
11/4/2010
I'll always give an arts center a break, but this one really doesn't need it. Like any other venue that books fairly high-profile acts, they have to charge accordingly, so base your decision to attend a show here on how interested you are in the act. Everything about the venue itself should enhance the experience.
It's a decent location, especially for northenders. Kind of a haul if you live in town, but certainly you can make an evening of it with some decent food nearby, either in downtown Edmonds or at one of the many newer Asian spots up along 99.
You get a great view from the entrance area, and there's plenty of parking. Might not affect your evening at all, but I sometimes get a little peevish driving all over looking for parking at a show around downtown, so I count this as an incidental plus in EC4A's favor.
Inside, they really did it right. They made the lobby modest, but invested in a solid PA system and good lighting. The seating is fairly intimate and you always feel like you're close to the stage--just the intangibles of a well-designed auditorium. It's an appealing setting, and both voice and music sound good here.
These guys make a good effort to find diverse programming that will appeal to different budgets and different tastes. For the most part I think they succeed. Ultimately, this place is so new and, really, so architecturally indistinct that you can't say that just by being there it enhances the performance. But looking and sounding good and keeping you comfortable go a long way to making a performance a pleasure to attend, and EC4A does that all day long. -
Review from Charissa G.
Seattle, WA
11/17/2011
Really nice place! Great comfortable seating, and good full view of the stage. We went to the Seattle International Comedy Competition here. The show was a blast, so it was hard not to like the venue. You can tell that there was a lot of money spent here to make it really sparkle. Clean, and well kept. Employees are very friendly! The bar was nice, but trying to create lines and pay for things was not well organized. Also, all of the map search engines bring you to the back of the building, not the front. Unfortunately, there is not very good signage to get into the place from the back, so that was a little frustrating.
Comment from Beth B. of Edmonds Center for the Arts 11/22/2011
Thanks for your comments, Charissa. We will definitely look… More » -
Review from Angie K.
8/23/2008 2 photos
This was a really nice venue to see a concert. I think it was recently remodeled, so everything was kind of new and fresh and clean, always good in an arts center.
Major points for:
Plenty of stalls in the ladies room
Comfortable, large seats
Intimate setting
A quick review of the upcoming 08-09 season shows a good variety of shows at decent prices.
Minor deductions:
Terrible wine at the concession stand. Yes, of course it is going to be overpriced, but there are cheap wines that are good. Work on that one, please. (also, small packages of Cheez-its really do not need to be on a multi-tiered silver tray. Might be overkill.)
Trying to decide if the utter lack of hipness matters to me. I'm not sure it does.
We live in NE Seattle, and I thought it would be a super long distance away, but it wasn't too bad and there is like zero traffic compared to driving downtown. Also, there was free parking. Free parking is awesome.
It's near "downtown Edmonds" and the ferry terminal, so there were several restaurants and bars nearby, although we didn't try any. -
Review from Tammi A.
Seattle, WA
2/21/2011 1 Check-in Here
staff was friendly and helpful. the seating was very good, spacious by theatre standards and it was small enough that there wasn't a bad seat in the place. They serve beer and wine during breaks in the lobby and you can take your beverage back to your seat so you don't have to chug it if you were in the back of the line.
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Review from Andre B.
Pittsburgh, PA
4/21/2010
Edmonds Center for the Arts is a great destination in a cute little city. I have tremendously enjoyed the shows that I saw there (Second City, Ballet Folklorico). Parking is pretty easy and there are some great restaurants to go to. They also have a decent concessions (including alcohol which is a plus.)
Specialties
Performing arts, music, theater, comedy, dance, community partnerships, educational outreach programs and more.
History
Established in 2006
Housed in the historic original Edmonds High School building in downtown Edmonds, ECA was remodeled and opened in October 2006.
