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Tusten Theatre
210 Bridge St
Narrowbsurg, NY 12764

All The 80-year old art deco-style Tusten Theatre is located at 210 Bridge St, Narrowsburg, NY and features an eight-month schedule of cultural programming including jazz, opera, performance art, folk music, film, and theatre. This concert is funded in part by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State’s 62 counties.



Many audience members were introduced to the Tusten Theatre after it was renovated by the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance in 1990. The theatre, however, has had several transformations. In its first life, if was called Community Hall, a dance and banquet hall built by the Narrowsburg firemen in 1926 to accommodate community activity. The firemen also showed films fairly regularly, as is evidenced by several posters still hanging in the theatre’s outer lobby.

In the 1930’s, the firemen leased the hall to Harvey English, a theatre chain owner from Hancock, NY. He converted the hall to a sloped floor movie house and ran the Park Theater for several years. The movie operation closed in 1985 and the firemen sold the building to the Town of Tusten for use as a town hall.

In 1987, DVAA took over management of the theatre portion for cultural events, and it was renamed Tusten Theatre. A cooperative effort by the Town, DVAA, and Sullivan County Planning Department resulted in a Community Development Block Grant to renovate the space for handicapped accessibility. A grand re-opening was held March 24, 1990.

In the past 19 years, the Tusten has presented or hosted over 500 events, from jazz to opera to one-person shows.


TUSTEN THEATRE • 210 BRIDGE ST • NARROWSBURG, NY • 845-252-7272