Video : State Theatre Executive Director-Stephen Williamson with Patty Dee A Three-day winter celebration based in art, music, and cinema to support the State and promote downtown Sioux Falls running March 1st-3rd The Sioux Falls State Theatre Company is partnering with downtown and local businesses to create the 2nd Annual "Party for the State," a three day festival based in art, music and movies. Using "Kickstarter™", as its on-line giving platform, tickets for the weekend can be obtained by providing as little as a $25 donation through Kickstarter™. Persons can access the State Theatre Kickstarter™ page by going to the www.siouxfallstatetheatre.org; http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/statetheatre/bring-down-the-curt...

Our friends at the State Theatre had a news story hit the huffington post today: 1926 SD theater, dark since '90s, nears reopening DIRK LAMMERS | November 23, 2012 05:35 PM EST | SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Downtown Sioux Falls in its heyday was home to seven movie theaters, but filmgoers since the early 1990s have been heading to the malls to sit in front of a big screen. Those longing for the old days will get their chance to go retro next year with the long-awaited reopening of the State Theatre, a circa-1926 vaudeville and silent movie house that for the past decade has been undergoing a slow but steady multimillion-dollar renovation. "It's a landmark," said 91-year-old Sylvia Henkin, whose family donated...