KLPAC gives new life to a former KTM railway warehouse in Sentul West. The conversion links industrial infrastructure to contemporary performance, while the centre’s founding story begins with the destruction of an earlier theatre by Kuala Lumpur’s 2003 floods.
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A railway warehouse is an unlikely place to build a home for theatre, but that reuse is central to KLPAC’s story. The Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre opened in 2005 inside a former National Railway warehouse at Sentul West.
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- KLPAC opened in May 2005.
- The centre occupies a former National Railway warehouse.
- The Actors Studio’s earlier complex was destroyed by floods in 2003.
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