Culture
There is a small but thriving arts centre in Orlando, the majority of which is centred on the downtown area. The Central Florida Ballet (tel: (407) 849 9948; website: www.centralfloridaballet.com) is based at 4525 Vineland Avenue and give performances all over Florida, while Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival (tel: (407) 447 1700; website: www.shakespearefest.org) offers classical productions year round at the John & Rita Lowndes Shakespeare Center on Princeton Street in the Loch Haven Cultural Park. The latter also houses the Mennello Museum of American Folk Art (tel: (407) 246 4278; website: www.mennellomuseum.com) and family-friendly Orlando Science Center (tel: (407) 514 2000; website: www.osc.org). The Bob Carr Performing Art Center, 401 West Livingston Street (tel: (407) 849 2001; website: www.orlandocentroplex.com) is the premier venue for theatre, ballet and opera, while The Theatre Downtown, on the corner of Orange Avenue and Princeton Street (tel: (407) 841 0083; website: www.theatredowntown.net) offers more experimental theatre. Winter Park, just to the north, is home to two fine museums – The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, 445 North Park Avenue (tel: (407) 645 5311; website: www.morsemuseum.org) which features the world’s finest collection of work by Louis Comfort Tiffany, and Cornell Fine Art Museum, 1000 Holt Avenue (tel: (407) 646 2526; website: www.rollins.edu/cfam/).
For cinemas, Downtown Disney (AMC 24, Downtown Disney, tel: (407) 298 4488), Universal’s CityWalk (Universal Cineplex, CityWalk, Universal Orlando, tel: (407) 354 5998), Pointe Orlando (Muvico Pointe 21, Pointe Orlando, tel: (407) 926 6850) and Festival Bay (Cinemark 20 at Festival Bay, tel: (407) 352 1042) all boast multi-screen cineplexes, while the non-profit alternative cinema Enzian Theater, 1300 South Orlando Avenue (tel: (407) 629 1088; website: www.enzian.org), in the suburb of Maitland, is home to the Florida Film Festival each April.
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