Bumped into this while looking up something else. United
Stage closed down sometime before 2015. It was a family run business where the family stopped wanting to support the business. I don't know the specific date they shut down operations, but we (The University of Alabama Department of
Theatre and Dance), purchased a significant amount of drapery fabric along with other items from an auction in 2015. At the time that I went through the space, it wasn't like it had been completely abandoned for an extended period of time. The pictures above from the spaces don't look like it changed much from when I went through. I know they did a lot of work throughout the southeast in churches, schools, and universities. They were a full
line, in-house manufacturer of
stage rigging and draperies as well as pew, chair, and kneeler cushions. They made much of their own components as they had a casting facility for
stage weights,
head block components,
etc. In our
purchase, we also got several of the
hand made sand casting forms for the hardware.