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Speaker 1: The Union Theater in Attleborough has been shuttered for some

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Speaker 1: twenty years, but it's poised for a comeback.

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Speaker 2: It was originally built as a warehouse in nineteen twenty five,

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Speaker 2: but then converted to a theater in nineteen twenty eight.

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Speaker 1: The local organization Illuminate Arts is spearheading the effort to

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Speaker 1: reopen this century old theater, which started out with Vonville

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Speaker 1: acts and moved on to movies. Jennifer Keating is the

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Speaker 1: executive director. She says, thanks to the current owners, the

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Speaker 1: inside of the theater doesn't actually look too bad, so people.

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Speaker 2: Think that they're coming into a theater that is falling apart,

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Speaker 2: but it's largely intact.

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Speaker 1: Keating says this was a gathering spot for generations of

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Speaker 1: Attleborough residents and groups are lining up to perform there

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Speaker 1: once it.

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Speaker 2: Opens, so we envision this space being a place for

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Speaker 2: the performing arts for sure. Illuminate this will be our

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Speaker 2: home base.

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Speaker 1: They've gathered together eight hundred grand, more than half of

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Speaker 1: what they need. Kyle Schaffel WBZ, Boston's news radio