The Covedale Center for the Performing Arts is a live theater venue located at 4990 Glenway Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. The building was originally built by the Ackerman Family and opened as a cinema on March 21, 1947, with 924-seat movie house.[1] In the 1970s a wall was erected down the middle to allow for a two-screen set-up. In 1998 the movie house was converted into a Cinema Grill, offering second-run movies and a dinner.[2] That shut down a year later. The grill reopened in 2000 but went out of business again. The building was purchased by Cincinnati Young People's Theatre[3] and opened on July 26, 2002, with the musical production "West Side Story".[4] [5] The theatre seats 392 people.