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A warm 200-seat theatre in Port Moody's Newport Village, with dinner steps away and acoustics regulars actually brag about.
Newport Village, Civic Centre
More infoThe Inlet Theatre is the venue equivalent of a restaurant that seats forty: intimate enough to read the actors' expressions from any of its 200 raked seats, with a sprung-maple stage and acoustics regulars brag about unprompted. It hosts plays, concerts, dance and film, and it sits inside Port Moody's Civic Centre beside Newport Village's restaurants, so you can go from dinner to curtain without ever finding your car.
Check the City of Port Moody listings first, the Inlet Theatre is a programmed venue (plays, concerts, dance, film), so book around whatever's actually on, and aim for February if you want the Canadian Film Festival or April for the Festival of the Arts. The room seats only about 200 with raked seating and warm wood finishes, so there's no bad sightline and the acoustics genuinely impress. The smart play is dinner first in Newport Village, St. James's Well, the family-run Irish pub right there, is an easy pre-show bite, then a two-minute walk to your seats. It's inside the Civic Centre next to Inlet SkyTrain, so transit in and skip parking entirely.
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