A landmark reborn: The restored, renovated State Theatre to debut soon
ByBill DeYoung St. Petersburg’s newest performing arts venue will most likely debut this spring. It’s not new, exactly. The State Theatre closed in 2018, a concert hall beset by numerous problems, including fire code violations that significantly reduced its capacity, which severely undercut management’s ability to attract big-name acts. By then, the State had been in a state of physical (and financial) decline