Project seeks to restore theater building

A contractor continues to apply a coat of plaster against a wall in the Glenns Ferry Opera Theater building as efforts continued to refurbish this section of the building last week.

Photo courtesy of the Glenns Ferry Opera Theater

Efforts to restore a chapter of Glenns Ferry’s history continued this week as maintenance crews worked to renovate the community’s historic opera theater building.

Water damage and falling plaster in the building’s backstage and cast area over the past several years, along with additional heat loss problems, left this part of the Glenns Ferry Opera Theater in a state of “general ugliness,” theater manager Dorothy Drake said in a post shared on social media.

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