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Speaker 1: The historic Sitarian has seen some things in one hundred

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Speaker 1: plus years it's been around.

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Speaker 2: It's needed lots of love.

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Speaker 1: The Rosemary Gill, the CEO of the New Bedford Theater,

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Speaker 1: says the massive renovations there are almost complete. I asked

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Speaker 1: for a look around near the construction.

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Speaker 3: This is a thirty seven million dollar renovation of New

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Speaker 3: Bedford's last operating theater.

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Speaker 1: The new design offers practical renovations like better seating than

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Speaker 1: an elevator, but also big picture changes to what the

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Speaker 1: space actually offers, like a dance and performance studio, which.

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Speaker 2: Is the first time in our organization's history where we

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Speaker 2: will have dedicated space for education.

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Speaker 1: There's also going to be a speakeasy built into the basement,

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Speaker 1: fitting since this place first opened up in the roaring twenties.

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Speaker 1: The newly redesigned theater reopens in January. Kyle Shaffle to

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Speaker 1: be busy Boston's news radio