Eccles Center for the Performing Arts

Great venue and what I will remember it for is the première of our film «The Birth of a Nation.» It worked well for the intros and the Q&A but most importantly the sound and screen were perfect to immerse one into the film itself and make the fact that you are in a theatre go away for the time you are a part of the story.

Holy! Wow! What a night!
This was my first Sundance Film & it was crazy! The Eccles Performing Arts Center is actually at the local High School and, I gotta tell you, this is nothing like how I remember my high school at all! These townie teens here got it made in the shade! Every year, for two weeks, they have all of the film industries most creative talents screening their art in this 1300 seat (GET OUT!!) theater! If that’s the theater, I can’t even imagine what the sports facilities are like! Unbelievable! Plenty of parking (if it’s not a school day) and they even set up a heated waiting area for ticket holders. I had to slap myself a few times to snap out of how jealous I am of these local teens! Robert Redford roamed these hallways. Matthew Perry chain smoked by THESE lockers. Ohhh, if these walls could talk! Back when I was in high school, the most exciting person to ever set foot in our gymnasium was Summer Sanders & she was just there to tell us what not to do. Drugs. She didn’t try to inspire us to DO anything.
I’m gonna have to seriously practice keeping my cool. Once I sat down, my head was darting all over the place. I was SO excited that EVERYONE looked famous to me. I couldn’t stop saying hi & trying to shake hands with everybody around me. It got weird in the bathroom.
And HATS OFF to the Sundance Committee on there selection for opening night! A slow, methodically paced melodrama about a failed gay improviser/​writer who leaves his boyfriend in NYC to move back home to live with his unaccepting, homophobic father & cancer ridden, terminally ill mother.. .. You NAILED IT! Now THAT’S ART! I’m jumping out of my skin, enthusiastically anticipating the next miserable scenario you guys are going to tackle! Talk about some folks who know their niche!
Watching this film tonight @ this amazing venue was pretty eye opening. It makes you feel all smart inside. You really can’t help but to want to put on some sunglasses, scrunch up your shoulders a little bit & have opinions about everything! Such a great facility!
Just breath.
You belong here.
Just breath.
You belong here.
fIve stars, or like, whatever. .. I guess.
Just Kidding — FIVE STARS!!!

Fun space for events in Park City. I would love to go to a high school that has such a great theater space!

Went to see a performance here over the weekend. I honestly wasn’t expecting it to be at a High School but it really was a nice place. The staff was SO nice! We had a great time

I came here to catch some films for the Sundance Film Festival. I highly recommend picking your tickets for this location. Although getting there was a bit hectic with the recent snow fall. But that’s to be expected for Utah snow.
It’s a very nice facility and they’ve a wonderful balcony overview in the theater I went into. Like I said, be sure to pick your tickets for this location.

My first film at Sundance couldn’t have been in a better theater then Eccles! Even with waiting in line for what seemed forever, I was totally digging the crowds vibe of excitement and anticipation. A massive tent was set up to house us ticket holders and they were smart enough to have a little snack bar. You could grab something before waiting in line. Just when I couldn’t stand there any longer, finally we were let out and up the stairs into this grand theater. I don’t know but I’m sure it was excitement of my first film, I don’t remember the lobby looked like. Then I heard someone mention that this is a High School theater. WHaAT!?! It was way too clean, too elegant, too much in perfect condition, the sound, and the seats were so comfy.
A few of the actors and director were there to say a little something. Then the film began, it was about this teenage girl and her family dealing with her being a lesbian in a African American community. It was very powerful and in my opinion deserving of all the awards it could get!
If this was what Sundance was going to be then I would have been a happy man… sadly, from here on it was downhill.

For the area of Park City, this is a pretty nice performing arts center at the high school. Nice comfortable seats, great sound, excellcent bathroom layout (this is very important to cut down the wait time), parking lot clears out fast, and generally a clean designed building. I happen to watch 2010 Waren Miller’s Wintervention Film, and loved it. I would definitly go back to the performing arts center for a show.

We saw the majority of our films for Sundance at this theater, and of the three we experienced, this one was by far the best. Yes, it is a high school theater, but the seats were so comfy I could watch movies all day without my back aching — thats a miracle!
Bathrooms were plentiful and all volunteers on hand were friendly and helpful