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Updated June 17, 2013
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Roofed theatres erected for performances came
late in theatrical history. Open-air theatres date back to the 5th Century,
B.C., but it was not until the Renaissance that plays were produced indoors.
By 1900 there were 67 vaudeville houses in
America. Between 1914 and 1922 there were 4,000 new theatres opened with Keith’s
and the Orpheum Circuit, along with their subsidiaries controlling the largest
percentage of the market, and independents like Loews, Ackerman & Harris, West
Coast Theatres, Pantages, C.H. Miles, Gus Sun, M.R. Sheedy, Wm. Fox and the
Negro Circuits taking up the balance., and from 1930 to 1932 the number of
operating theatres fell from 22,000 to 14,000
Between 1963 and 1964 of America’s older
theatres, 150 were closed, 870 were remodelled, and 179 that had closed
previously, were reopened.
There are 150,000 modern cinemas in the world
Updated January, 2003 as to years theatres
have been in operation only
All “Le,” “Les,” and “La’s,” have been
eliminated as has “The,” for easier alphabetization e.g La Salle de l”Ermitage
is under Salle
*ABILENE, TX -
Paramount Theatre -
1930 – Atmospheric style
*ABINGDON, VA -
Barter Theatre – 1933 – 380 seats –
1946 declared State Theatre of Virginia, title also given to Virginia Museum
Theatre, Richmond – 1953 refurbished from Empire Theatre in New York City – 1971
2nd theatre Barter Playhouse (100 seats)
ABINGDON, VA – Fairfax Theatre
AKRON, OH – Akron Civic Theatre – 1929 built
as Akron Loews – Atmospheric style
AKRON, OH – Carousel Dinner Theatre – closed
Jan 4/09 – founded in 1973, began life in a converted Ravenna, OH, supermarket
prior to moving to its current Akron location – In addition to members of Actors
Equity, the Ohio institution employed members of the American Federation of
Musicians and the Society of Directors and Choreographers
AKRON, OH – Loew’s – 1928 LOUISVILLE, KY -
Loew’s Theatre – 1927 – Atmospheric style
ALABAMA -
Dead
Theatres Online Alabama
ALAMEDA, CA – Alameda Naval Air Station
Theater – 900 seats – 1940s – restored & used for auctions/films
ALAMEDA, CA – Kelly’s of Alameda – 1313 Park
Street, Alameda, CA – cabaret venue
ALAMOSA, C0 – Oliver Opera House – 1903 –
demolished
ALAMOSA, C0 – Isis Theatre – 1912 – now called
Grove Theatre – 615 Main Street – became film house 1913
ALBANY, NY – Gaiety Theatre – early 1890s
house playing burlesque
ALBANY, NY – Palace Theater – 3600 seats
ALBURQUERQUE, NM =
Dead Theatres Online – Alburquerque
*ALBUQUERQUE, NM -
KiMo Theatre – 1927 – see
also Wiminfest
ALBUQUERQUE, NM – Silver Slipper – Ray Bourbon
ALBUQUERQUE, NM -
Wiminfest – established 1985 – held
in KiMo Theatre
ALHAMBRA, CA – Alhambra Theater & Annex -
first twinned theatre 1939
ALLENTOWN, PA –
Symphony Hall/Lyric Theatre
- built 1899
ALEXANDRIA, VA –
- The
Birchmere -3701 Mount Vernon Avenue
ALLSTON, MA -
-
Scullers Jazz Club – 400 Soldiers Field Road – cabaret venue
ALTADENA, CA – Café La Vie – Charles Pierce
1954
ALTON, IL – Grand Theatre – abandoned
ALTOONA, PA -
Mishler Theatre – built
1907
AMBOY, NJ – Multiplex closed 2005 – floor
caved in due to construction
AMHERST, MA – Amherst Cinema
ANAHEIM, CA – Anaheim Performing Arts Center – funds being raised 2010 for new arts center
*ANAHEIM, CA -
Disneyland – houses park’s 2,000-seat
Hyperion Theater has two balconies and a 50-foot proscenium stage the size of
the one at the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center – currently playing
Aladdin, a 40 minute spectacular, with other shows in the wings
ANAHEIM, CA –
Greek Theatre
ANCHORAGE, AK – Empress – 1916- Gutted; Retail
ANCHORAGE, AK – Fourth Avenue 1947 – 1,100
seats -Banquet Hall
*ANDERSON, IN -
Paramount Theatre Centre and Ballroom -
1929 – 1124 Meridian Plaza – one of only 12 Eberson designed atmospheric
theatres remaining in the world – closed 1984 – restored
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, NY -
Fisher Center for the Performing Arts -
newly opened two theatre complex, Weisman Theatre and Sosnoff Theatre
ANN ARBOR, MI – The Ark – music venue
ANN ARBOR, MI – Arthur Miller Theatre -
University of Michigan
ANN ARBOR, MI – APA (Association of Producing
Artists) – founded in 1960-1982 by Ellis Rabb at University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor
ANN ARBOR, MI – Michigan Theatre – opened 1928 as vaudeville and silent movie palace – now offers live entertainment and films
ANN ARBOR, MI – Joan and Sanford I. Weill Hall –
ANN ARBOR, MI -
Power Center for the
Performing Arts
ANN ARBOR, MI – Village 4 – closed 2005
ANNISTON, AL – Lyric Theatre
ANSON, TX -
Opera House – 1907
ANSTED, WV – Ritz Theatre
ARCHER CITY, TX – Royal Theatre
ARLINGTON, VA -
American Century Theatre -
performances at Gunston Arts Center
ARLINGTON, VA -
Arlington Memorial
Amphitheatre
ARLINGTON, VA – Gunston Arts Center – see
American Century Theatre
ARLINGTON, VA -
Signature Theatre – opened 1993 and first 13 years in renovated auto storage – new two venue complex as of July 2005 – 100 seat and 276 seat Max Theatre – which
moved into a $16 million new home at 4200 Campbell Avenue in 2007, simply couldn’t continue to
function in their old spaces – Regional Theatre Tony Award 2009 -
ARLINGTON, TX – Texas Stadium – demolished
April 2010 – longtime home to Dallas Cowboys – opened 1971 – used until end of
2008 season
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL – Metropolis Performing
Arts Centre – 111 W Campbell St
ARVERNE, NY – Fox Theater
ASBURY PARK, NJ – Baronet Theatre – abandoned
ASBURY PARK, NJ – Mayfair Theatre -
Atmospheric style – closed & demolished
ASHLAND, OR –
Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Theatre – 1935
ASPEN, CO – Corkhill Opera House – 1881 –
replaced by Wheeler Opera House 1899 – later Rink Opera House – 1890 became
Tivoli
ASPEN, CO – Wheeler Opera House – 1909 –
became film theatre
ASTORIA, NY – Amphitheatre – Long Island State Park, Astoria, Queens, is about to get its first outdoor amphitheater, situated where an Art Deco diving pool, built in the 1930s, fell into disuse decades ago – plans call for filling the pool, at Astoria Park, with concrete to make way for the performance space, but the pool complex has been declared a landmark, a designation that means any changes would require a review by the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission. Accordingly, there are a few things that probably will not change: namely, the triple-tiered Bauhaus-style diving board that will most likely remain, smack in the middle of downstage, posing quite a challenge to set designers
ASTORIA, NY – Greek Cultural Center
ASTORIA, NY – Loew’s Triboro Theatre – -
Atmospheric style – closed & demolished
ATLANTA, GA -
Alliance Theatre – 2 stages with a
total of 965 seats – winner of 2007 Tony Award for best regional theatre
ATLANTA, GA – Atlanta Memorial Arts Center – 1968
ATLANTA, GA – Cherokee Theatre – Atmospheric
style – closed & demolished
ATLANTA, GA – First Glance Atlanta – annual
arts festival
ATLANTA, GA – 14th Street Playhouse
*ATLANTA, GA -
Fox Theatre – 1929 by Thomas Lamb -
grandest of the American atmospherics – 5000 seats – spectacular theatre built
for 3 million and a 21 year exclusive for Fox, had Arabian courtyard motif with
desert night sky – great organ and a live stage show before the film – 1932
filed for bankruptcy – closed 1975 – reopened
ATLANTA, GA -
Grand Opera House
ATLANTA, GA – Imperial Lounge – Ray Bourbon
ATLANTA, GA -
Libby’s Cabaret – 3401 Northside
Parkway NW – cabaret venue
ATLANTA, GA –
National Black Arts Festival – annual festival
ATLANTA, GA -
New American Shakespeare Tavern
- 250 seats – now in its 13th year of dramatic performances in a bar setting
ATLANTA, GA -
Shake at the Lake – free productions,
which costs the company $115,000 annually to produce, has been put on hiatus for
the 2009 season – Georgia Shakespeare, which has been in operation since 1986,
anticipates reinstating the free Shakespeare production for summer 2010
ATLANTA, GA – Theatre Atlanta – 1966
ATLANTA, GA -
True Colors -
African-American company
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ -
Auditorium
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ – Club Harlem – Kentucky Avenue – 1930s to 1980s – closed in 1986 and torn down in 1992 – premier nightclub for black tourists visiting Atlantic City – Dick Gregory, Dinah Washington, Bootsie Barnes, Gladys Knight and Teddy Pendegrass. Crazy Chris Columbo led the orchestra there, and numerous black musicians developed their skills at the club including trumpeter Hot Lips Page and organist Wild Bill Davis. Jazz musician Lonie Smith recorded his album “Move
Your Hand” there
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ – Babette’s – 2211 Pacific Ave – initially called the Golden Inn, owner changed its name to Babette’s – bar shaped like a ship and catered to a high class guests who could also find some action at Babette’s backroom
card tables
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ – 500 Club – During the 1940s and 1960s the 500 Club featured live music and stage shows and some back room action – Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis appeared at the 500 Club but were initially poorly received – adding more slapstick stuff to their act the audiences loved it – Skinny D’Amato gave Frank Sinatra some help when he was first starting out – when Frank became famous he often went back to Atlantic City to perform at Skinny’s 500 Club, often accompanied by some of his rat pack, including Sammy Davis Jr., whos mother, tended bar at the nearby Graces’ Little Belmont
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ – Fortescue Pavilion – beer
garden with entertainment free of charge – W.C.Fields – early 1890s house
playing burlesque
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ -Revel – 2.4 billion resort – casinco opened April 2/12 – city’s 12th casino – 5,050 seat theatre – Beyonce;
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ – Warner Theatre -
Atmospheric style
AUGUSTA, MI -
Barn Theatre – former dairy barn,
incorporated 1949 – SW Michigan’s oldest summer stock theatre outside town of Augusta, MI – 481 seat Equity Theatre reopens for 65th season Summer 2011 after dormant 2010 season – actors who got their professional start there Tom Wopat, Marin Mazzie, Becky Ann Baker, Jennifer Garner, Lauren Graham, Stephen Lynch and Dana Delany
AUGUSTUS, GA -
Imperial Theatre/The Wells – built
1918
AURORA, IL – Paramount Arts Centre – 23 E
Galena Blvd – suburb of Chicago – subscription series – opened 1931 as film house – renovated 1978 – Frankie Avalon/Natalie Cole/Duke Ellington/Bernadette Peters/Will Rogers etc.
AU SABLE FORKS, NY – Hollywood Theatre
AUSTIN, TX -
Bass Concert Hall
AUSTIN, TX-
Long Center for the Performing Arts -
revised project plan to first build the largest theatre, the Michael & Susan
Dell Hall (2,300 seats) and the community theatre, the Debra & Kevin Rollins
Studio Theatre (240 seats) in Phase I – plan will allow for additional spaces to
be added in Phase II of the project including the Topfer Theatre and a Recital &
Education Building as fundraising continues – grand opening of the Long Center
took place on March 28, 2008
AUSTIN, TX – Majestic Theatre – 1914 – 713
Congress Ave – restored and renamed Paramount 1930
AUSTIN, TX -
Millett Opera House – 1878 – 110 E 9th St
*AUSTIN, TX -
Paramount Theatre – built 1915 – one
of few atmospherics remaining designed by Eberson
AUSTIN, TX – Zach Theater – houses Topfer Theater, Karen Kuykendall Stage
AVALON, CA -
Greek Amphitheatre
BABYLON, NY – James Street Players – 2004 is
their 38th anniversary – perform in cinderblock church hall
BAKERSFIELD, CA – Nile Theatre – abandoned
BALTIMORE, MD – Baltimore Civic Opera – 1932 -
declared bankruptcy late 2008
BALTIMORE, MD – Boulevard Theatre
*BALTIMORE, MD -
Center Stage – 1963 (500
seats) Loyola College Complex
BALTIMORE, MD – Ford’s Theatre – demolished
1964
BALTIMORE, MD –
France-Merrick Performing Arts Center
- (see also Hippodrome) – opened 2004 – $65 million restoration of the 2,250
seat Hippodrome, former vaudeville palace shuttered since 1990 – derelict
downtown block now a vibrant performing arts complex – tours of Broadway shows
like Les Miserables, and Mamma Mia
BALTIMORE, MD – Grand Theatre
BALTIMORE, MD -
Hippodrome – built 1914 as
vaudeville house by architect Thomas Lamb – Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Frank
Sinatra, Bob Hope, Roy Rogers – became movie theatre until 1990 – closed -
restored and reopening 2004 as France-Merrick Performing Arts Center – with The
Producers – 2,300 seats
BALTIMORE, MD – Holliday State Theatre – 1794
wooden theatre – in 1813 it was replaced by brick structure called Baltimore
Theater – burned in 1873 – rebuilt but demolished in 1917 – an institution for
123 years – demolished 1917
BALTIMORE, MD – Loew’s Century
BALTIMORE, MD – Loew’s Valencia Theatre -
Atmospheric style – closed & demolished
*BALTIMORE, MD -
Lyric Opera House – opened in 1894
as The Music Hall – renovated 1979-1981
BALTIMORE, MD -
Maryland Theatre
BALTIMORE, MD – Mayfair Theatre – abandoned
*BALTIMORE, MD -
Mechanic Theatre – built 1967 (1600
seats)
BALTIMORE, MD – Monumental Theatre – early
1890s house playing burlesque
BATIMORE, MD – Northwood Theater
BALTIMORE, MD – Parkway Theatre
BALTIMORE, MD – Patterson Theatre
BALTIMORE, MD – Playhouse – built 1782 on E.
Baltimore Street
BALTIMORE, MD – Playhouse Theatre
BALTIMORE, MD – Senator Theater
BALTIMORE, MD – Stacy’s Bar – Ray Bourbon
BALTIMORE, MD – Valencia Theatre – rose above
Century Theatre
*BARABOO, WI -
Al Ringling Theatre
- 1915
BARRINGTON, IL – Catlow Theater – 116 W. Main
St
BAYONNE, NJ -
Meville Park Theatre
BAY SHORE, NY – YMCA Boulton Center for the
Arts – built 1919 as Regent Movie Theatre – first run theatre to porn house –
derelict – converted 2004 – reopened – 265 seats
BEACH HAVEN, LI – Surflight Theater – 1950 – 2013 is 64th season – 450 seats – damaged in 2012 hurricane
BEAUMONT, TX -
Julie Rogers Theater for the Performing Arts
BEAVER FALLS, PA – Granada Theatre -
Atmospheric style – closed
BEEVILLE, TX -
Rialto Theater – 1922
BELLEFONTAINE, OH – Schine Holland Theatre -
Atmospheric style – closed – undergoing renovations
BELLPORT, NY – Gateway Playhouse
BENTON HARBOR, MA –
Liberty Theatre – Open Air
*BERKELEY, CA -
Berkeley Repertory – now in their 37th
season (2004) – winner of Regional Theatre Tony Award 1997 – Theatre’s scene
shop was destroyed by fire June 29/05 – which in 2001 grew to 1,000 seats from
400
BERKELEY, CA -
Hearst Greek Theatre
BERTHOUD, CO – Fairbairn Hall – 1885 – 1908
became Mintener Hall Opera House – razed late 1960s
BETHESDA, MD -
Bethesda Theatre – built 1938 -
operated as 1,000 seat film theatre until 1983 – converted to restaurant/movie
house catering to 2nd run films – now part of apartment complex – now converted
to 580 to 700 seat art deco theatre – Robert Nederlander Jr., prexy of
Nederlander Worldwide, said he is excited about the circuit’s format, which he
feels is underserved and filled with box office potential. Other initial
properties include the Post Street and Marines Memorial Theaters in San
Francisco, and the Proscenium Theater in Sarasota, Fla. opens as legitimate with
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change 2007
BEVERLY, MA –
North Shore Music Theatre – began operating 1955 – l1500 seats – largest
non-profit producing theatre in New England – announced Dec. 29/08 that without
immediate philanthropic support, the not-for-profit theatre will close its doors
after 55 years – devastating fire in 2005 – closed 2009 – to reopen July 6, 2010
*BEVERLY HILLS, CA-
Canon Theater – 205
North Canyon Drive – the historic Canon Theatre in Beverly Hills, California
will shut its doors March 7, 2004, and be demolished to make way for a new hotel
- theatre has been home to such productions as Love Letters, the world premiere
of Bill Graham Presents starring Ron Silver, and the Los Angeles premieres of
Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine, The Last Night of Ballyhoo starring Rhea Perlman,
Neil LaBute’s bash starring Calista Flockhart, The Second Greatest Entertainer
in the Whole Wide World starring Dick Shawn and Wendy Wasserstein’s Isn’t It
Romantic – William Finn’s Elegies will perform, as its title fittingly suggests,
the farewell concert (March 26-28/04) at historic Canon Theatre in Beverly
Hills, 205 North Canon Drive — which is set to be demolished to make way for a
new hotel
l BEVERLY HILLS, CA – Fine Arts – closed 2005
BERKELEY, CA -
Hearst Greek Theatre – built 1903 – 8,200 seats
BIG STONE GAP, VA – Earle Theatre
BILOXI, MS – Biloxi Little Theater – 220 Lee
Street
BILOXI, MS -
Center Stage Theater – 240
Eisenhower Drive
BILOXI, MS – Saenger Theatre – 416 Reynoir
Street
BIRMINGHAM, AL – BIRMINGHAM REP – Twelfth
Night 1913
BIRMINGHAM, AL – Alabama – 1927 – 3,000 seats
- Performng Arts, Movies
BIRMINGHAM, AL –Birmingham – 1927 -1,100 seats
-Closed, 1984
BIRMINGHAM, AL –Ritz – 1926 – 1,800 seats -
Art Deco-Razed c. 1980
BIRMINGHAM, AL – Southern College Theatre
BIRMINGHAM, AL –Strand (Newmar) – 193? Movies,
historical
*BLACKSBURG, VA -
Lyric Theatre – built 1930
BLOOMINGTON, IN – Indiana University Opera
Theatre – 1948 – world’s largest school opera-producing organization
BLUEFIELD, WV – Bluefield Theatre – abandoned
BLUEFIELD, WV – Colonial Theatre
BOCA RATON, FL -
Caldwell Theatre – 7873 N. Federal
Highway – started in 1975 – 305 seats – new theatre known as Count de Hoernle
Theatre – May 2007
BOISE, ID – Egyptian Theater
*BOONTON, NJ -
Darress Theatre – 1919
BOONVILLE, MO -
Thespian Hall
BOOTHBAY, ME -
Boothbay
Harbor Opera House
*BOOTHBAY, ME -
Boothbay
Playhouse
BOSTON, MA – American Amphitheatre – 1832 –
later became National Theatre – changed name to Warren – burned down 1852
BOSTON, MA – Arlington (Castle Square) – 1894
- 231 seats – razed
BOSTON, MA – Astor – 1920s – 151 seats – razed
BOSTON, MA – B.F. Keith’s New (Lyric) – 1894 -
270 seats – razed 1951
BOSTON, MA – Bijou Dream – 1882 – 102 seats -
razed 1951
BOSTON, MA – Black Box Theatre – 90 seats
BOSTON, MA -
BosTix Booth – half price same day
tickets – Copley Plaza or Faneuil Hall
BOSTON, MA -
BOSTON ASSOCIATION OF CABARET ARTISTS
BOSTON, MA – BOSTON CENTRE FOR THE ARTS – began operations 1970 – houses several performance and rehearsal spaces, restaurants, a gallery, headquarters of the Boston Ballet, Community Music Center of Boston and several other arts organizations. The BCA also serves as home to four Resident Theater Companies i.e. Publick Theatre Company, resident theatre company, and a number of artists. BCA’s main building, the Cyclorama, is on the National Register of Historic Places
BOSTON, MA – Boston Museum – Tremont and
Bromfield Streets – opened 1841 – 1846 much larger theatre of same name erected
on East side of Tremont Street – closed 1893 – Drunkard or The Fallen Saved 1844
– Second Boston Museum built in 1872 – completely renovated – School For Scandal
BOSTON, MA – Boston Ideal Opera Company –
founded 1879 – company tourned U.S. and Canada – became the Bostonians –
disbanded after 1904/05 season
BOSTON, MA – Boston Opera Company – 1908
BOSTON, MA -
Boston Opera House – -
opened 1909 – 2900 seats – demolished 1958
BOSTON, MA – Boston, RKO (old) – 1854 – 3200
seats – razed 1926
BOSTON, MA –
Boston Theatre – 1854
built to replace Federal Street Theatre – 3140 seats – razed 1926
*BOSTON, MA -
Boston Theatres – Colonial, Wilbur,
Charles Playhouse
BOSTON, MA – Bowdoin Square – 1892 – 1500
seats – razed 1950s
BOSTON, MA – Broad Alley Theatre (New
Exhibition Room) – 1792
BOSTON, MA – Broadway – South Boston – 192? -
1,850 seats -Closed
BOSTON, MA – Casino (Old Howard) – 1910 – 1300
seats – razed 1962
BOSTON, MA –
Castle Square Theatre –
1894 – Tremont and Chandler – 1800 seats – bankrupt
BOSTON, MA – Central Square – East Boston -
1930 – 1,100 seats – Razed
BOSTON, MA – Charles Playhouse – Shear Madness
(10,367 performances as of Oct 31/04)(as of Jan 31/05 show will have run 25
years)
BOSTON, MA –
Citi Performing Arts Center – 270
Tremont St – renamed Nov 30/06 the Wang Theatre for the Performing Arts is now
known as the Citi Performing Arts Center
BOSTON, MA -
Club Cafe
BOSTON, MA – Cocoanut Grove – nightclub – 492
deaths in a fire 1942
BOSTON, MA – Codman Square – Dorchester 1,930
seats -1927 – Razed
BOSTON, MA – Colonial Theatre – 1894 – Boylston Street = oldest
continuously operating theatre in Boston – 1,700 seats – opened with Ben Hur (cast of 350 and 8 live horses) – great tryout theatre – closing temporarily on July 9/11 until new presenter found – Theatre Across American now with Shubert
BOSTON, MA – Columbia – 1891 – 1950 seats -
Former Church – Razed, 1957
BOSTON, MA – Cort (Park Square, Selwyn) – 1913
- 1200 seats – razed
BOSTON, MA – Cutler Majestic – After a year of
reconstruction and renovation, Boston’s House of Gold reopened in May 2003 as
the Cutler Majestic Theatre at Emerson College
BOSTON, MA – Dodley – Roxbury 1,950 seats
-Razed
BOSTON, MA – Egyptian – Brighton 1,700 seats
-1929- Razed, 1959
*BOSTON, MA –
Emerson Majestic – 1903
BOSTON, MA – Exeter Street Theater – 1914 -
1300 seats – currently school
BOSTON, MA – Federal Street Theatre – 1794
(1000) burned in 1798 – rebuilt and survived until 1852 – 1870s converted to
business establishment – destroyed by fire shortly thereafter
BOSTON, MA – Fenway (Berklee Performing Arts)
- 1915 – 1370 seats – gutted
BOSTON, MA – Fields Corner -Dorchester -1,590
seats – Razed
BOSTON, MA – Fine Arts – 1922 – razed 1967
BOSTON, MA – Franklin Park -Dorchester – 1914
- 1,200 seats – now Church
BOSTON, MA – Gilded Cage
BOSTON, MA – Globe (Center, Pagoda) – 1903 -
1650 seats – now restaurant and store
BOSTON, MA – Great Scott – 250 person music venue
BOSTON, MA – Haymarket – 1796 – wooden theatre
- demolished in 1803
BOSTON, MA – House of Blues – first House of Blues opened its doors in a converted historical house in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1992 and is home to live music, original folk art, and delta-inspired cuisine
BOSTON, MA – Howard Atheneum – 1846-1893 -
1400 seats – early 1890s house playing burlesque – razed 1961
BOSTON, MA -
Huntington Theatre – 2002 is the 21st
anniversary of this company, many of their performances at Boston University and
the Wilbur Theatre – winner of 2013 Regional Tony Award
BOSTON, MA – Improv Boston – Since 1982, has
entertained audiences
BOSTON, MA – Jewett Players
BOSTON, MA – John B. Hines Memorial Auditorium
BOSTON, MA – John Hancock Hall – seats 1,100
BOSTON, MA – Keith’s Theatre – built as a
vaudeville house Keith’s Memorial Opera House – 1928 – now the Opera House
BOSTON, MA – Lancaster (West End) – 1917 -
1380 seats – Razed, 1990
BOSTON, MA – Latin Quarter – popular nightclub
BOSTON, MA – Loew’s Copley Place 11 – closed
2005
BOSTON, MA – Loeb Drama Centre – headquarters
of the American Repertory Theatre – 556-seat theatre
BOSTON, MA – Loew’s State – 1922 – 3440 seats
- razed 1968
*BOSTON, MA -
Lyric Stage – 140
Clarendon Street
BOSTON, MA – Madison – Jamaica – 1926 – 1,220
seats – Razed
BOSTON, MA -
Majestic
(Saxon) – built 1903 – performing arts – twinned
BOSTON, MA – Metropolitan (Wang Ctr) – 1925 -
4400 seats – performing arts
BOSTON, MA – Middle East Club
BOSTON, MA – Morton – Dorchester – 1926 – 1960
seats – Razed, 1976
BOSTON, MA – National (Hippodrome) – South End
- 1911 – 3,100 seats – Razed, 1997
BOSTON, MA – New Boston Theatre – 1854
BOSTON, MA – New England Opera Theatre –
touring company – succeeded by Opera Society of Boston in 1958
BOSTON, MA – New Exhibition Room – 1792 –
later became Board Alley Theatre
BOSTON, MA – O’Briens Pub – live music venue
BOSTON, MA – Opera House – was originally a
home for vaudeville but became a movie house in 1929. Renamed the Savoy in the
1960s, it continued to function as a movie house until 1978, when it was
acquired by The Opera Company of Boston; Boston’s Opera House will reopen its
doors with Disney’s The Lion King, which begins preview at the Opera House, is
the first live production there since December 1990 – 2,600-seat theater was
designed in 1928 by Thomas White Lab
BOSTON, MA – Opera Boston – disbanding as a company January 1, 2012;
BOSTON, MA – Olympia (Scollay Sq) – 1920 -
2530 seats – razed 1963
BOSTON, MA – Opera House (Keith’s) – 1928 -
2900 seats – performing arts
BOSTON, MA – Opera Society of Boston – 1958
BOSTON, MA – Oriental – Mattapan – 1930 -
2,100 seats – Atmospheric -Retail – gutted?
BOSTON, MA – Orpheum – 1916 – 2830 seats -
rock shows
BOSTON, MA – Paramount – 1932 – 1700 seats -
being renovated
BOSTON, MA – Pilgrim (Olympia) – 1912 – 1890
seats – razed 1996
BOSTON, MA – Plymouth (Gary) – 1911 – 1500
seats – playhouse – razed 1980
BOSTON, MA – Publick Theatre – 40th year Fall 2011 – resident company at Boston Centre for the Arts – now on hiatus deciding its future (Aug 2011)
BOSTON, MA – Publix (Gayety) – 1908 – 1040
seats – razed 2005
BOSTON, MA – Rialto – Roslindale – c 1927 -
1,320 seats – Razed
BOSTON, MA – Rivoli – Roxbury 192? – 1,530
seats – Razed
BOSTON, MA – RKO Boston (Keith-Albee) – 1925 -
3210 seats – now warehouse
BOSTON, MA – Savage Opera Company
BOSTON, MA – Savoy – see Opera House
BOSTON, MA – Seville Theater – East Boston –
1929 – 1500 seats – Atmospheric style – closed
BOSTON, MA – Shawmut (Roxie) – Roxbury – 192?
-2,090 seats – Razed
BOSTON, MA – Shubert Theatre – 1910 – 1620
seats – now legitimate theatre – Hot September 1965; Prettybelle (Angela
Lansbury) 1971
BOSTON, MA – State Theater (Trans-Lux) – 1903
- 1270 seats – razed 1991
BOSTON, MA – Stoneham Theatre – Thrill Me 2004
BOSTON, MA – Strand (Huntington Ave.) – 1912 -
Razed 1968
BOSTON, MA – Strand- Dorchester – 1918 – 1,810
seats – Performing Arts
BOSTON, MA – Strand – South Boston – 192?
-1,500 seats – Razed, 1980s
BOSTON, MA – Stuart (Unique) – 1907 – now
restaurant
BOSTON, MA – Stuart Street Playhouse Second
Stage (Radisson Hotel) – 200 Stuart Street – 199 seats – opens November 6/03 -
Originally built as a cinema in 1970, converted into a live performance space
called the 57 Theater in the summer of 1996 – The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron,
Hedwig and Angry Inch
BOSTON, MA -
Summer
Club Café – 209 Columbus Avenue – cabaret venue
BOSTON, MA -
Symphony Hall
BOSTON, MA – Theatre Comique
BOSTON, MA – Theatre Pavilion – 360-seat
Virginia Wimberly Theatre and new 200-seat Nancy and Edward Roberts Studio
Theatre — a Huntington Theatre Company and the Boston Center for the Arts joint
project — will be built (at the BCA site), managed, and programmed by
Huntington. The Theatre Pavilion slated to open in the fall of 2004 will be the
first two new theatres to be built in Boston over 75 years
BOSTON, MA – Toy Theatre
BOSTON, MA – Tremont Temple or Tremont Street
Theatre – opened 1827 – 2580 seats – destroyed by fire 1852 – renovated 1983 -
Drunkard or The Fallen Saved 1844; Howard Thurston 1931 – now a church
BOSTON, MA – Tufte Performance Production
Center at 10 Boylston Place, which opened in the fall of 2003, supports
Emerson’s Performing, Visual and Media Arts programs. It includes the Semel
Theater, the Kermit and Elinore Greene Theatres
BOSTON, MA – Uptown (St. James) – 1912 – 1630
seats – razed 1968
BOSTON, MA – Waldron’s Casino – 1920 – 1820
seats – razed
BOSTON, MA – Wang Theatre for the Performing
Arts – see Citi Performing Arts Center – For nearly 15 years, the 3,700-seat
Wang Theatre has been the Boston destination of choice for a steady parade of
blockbuster touring musicals, starting with “The Phantom of the Opera” in 1992
(which returned for three more months-long runs) and including “Miss Saigon,”
“Showboat” and “Beauty and the Beast.”
BOSTON, MA – Warren – Roxbury – 192? – 1,320
seats – Razed
BOSTON, MA -
Wilbur Theatre – 264 Tremont Street – 1200 seats – opened 1914 – as of 2007
on auction block – destiny unknown
BOSTON, MA – Wimberley Theatre – 360–seat
*BOULDER, CO -
Boulder Theater – 1132-34 Pearl
Street -opened 1906 as the Curran Opera House – became movie house in 1927 to
1978 – closed 1978 – renovated 1981
BRADFORD, PA -
New Bradford Theatre
*BRANSON, MI -
Branson Online – Missouri
BRANSON, MI -
Old Mill Theatre
BRANSON, MO -
Champagne Theatre
BRATTLEBORO, VT – Latchis Theatre -
Atmospheric style
BRIARCLIFF MANOR, NY – Julie Harris Theatre -
550 Albany Post Road, Route 9
BRIDGEPORT, CT – Loew’s Poli Majestic & Palace
Theater – two built inside one structure
BRIDGEWATER, NH -
Inn on
Newfound Lake – 1030 Mayhew Turnpike – cabaret venue
BRIGHTON, CO – Carmichael Opera House/Wire
Opera House – 1888 – 1000 seats – burned 1955
BRIGHTON, CO – Higgins Opera House – 24 N Main
- 1200 seats – became saloon
BRISTOL, IN -
Bristol Opera House
BRISTOL, RI – Pastime Theatre – 1912 – 350
seats – destroyed by fire and rebuilt 1934 – demolished
BROCKVILLE, NY – Tilles Center for the Performing Arts
BRONX, NY – Belmont Italian American Playhouse – Arthur Ave
BROOKLYN – Academy of Music – see Brooklyn
Academy of Music
BROOKLYN, NY – Albee – 1925 – 1 DeKalb Ave -
2636 seats – demolished 1977), has been renovated and renamed The Gallery at
Fulton Street – was just one of several movie, theater and burlesque houses in
the area
BROOKLYN, NY – Arcadia Hall
BROOKLYN, NY – Athenaeum – 1853 – Atlantic Ave
- supplanted 1860s by Academy of Music and Park Theater – see Globe Theatre, A.T.
Stewart’s Athenaeum
*BAM
(NYC) (Brooklyn Academy of Music) -Founded in 1859 and opened in 1861, it is
the oldest such institution still in operation in the United States. It moved to
its neo-Italianate building in downtown Brooklyn in 1907 (Harvey Theatre – 875
seats) – 651 Fulton Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn; Howard Gilman Opera House -
2000 seats – 30 Lafayette St – winner of Regional Theatre Tony Award 1988 – Long
Day’s Journey into Night (Jason Robards Jr.,Zoe Caldwell) 1976 (11); Joseph and
the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat; American Premiere of Hamlet 2001 – 3rd
theatre space (Samuel Scripps Stage, interior dubbed Judith R. & Alan H. Fishman
Space) – 263 seat black box to open 2013 behind Gilman Opera House
BAM Rose Cinemas – 30 Lafayette,
Brooklyn – 1998, previously Helen Carey Playhouse – built as Majestic 1903 –
turned into Harvey Theatre, former 2110 seat historic Opera House – now all part
of BAM
BROOKLYN, NY – Bijou Theater – Marcus Loew,
encouraged by his success of his first Brooklyn theatre, the Royal, took over
the Bijou in 1908 and converted it to movies with vaudeville. …demolished
BROOKLYN, NY – Broadway Sporting Club -
BROKEN ARROW, OK – Kristin Chenoweth Theatre – Broken Arrow Performing Arts Center – opened Sept 2009 – theatre renamed June 2012
BROOKLYN, NY – Barclays Center – Flatbush and Atlantic Aves – 18,000 seats with 3 professional sports teams and St. John’s basketball – Several big acts have added a night in Brooklyn in addition to planned dates at the Garden, among them Neil Young and Crazy Horse, the Who, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Leonard Cohen. Others who have played the Garden in the past are foregoing it altogether and playing Barclays instead, among them Bob Dylan, Green Day, John Legend, Rihanna and Rush
BROOKLYN, NY – Brooklyn Academy of Music – see
BAM
BROOKLYN, NY – Brooklyn Amphitheater – 1828 -
Fulton St – changed to Brooklyn Theater
*Brooklyn
Center for the Performing Arts (NYC) - Walt Whitman Theatre – campus of
Brooklyn College – 2900 Campus Road & Hillel Place
Brooklyn
Lyceum/Gowanus.com – 227 4th Avenue at President St – Park Slope – used
to be old bathhouse – 1909 – converted into two theatres
BROOKLYN, NY – Brooklyn Museum – 1850 – 3rd
floor housed dramatic performances – Junius Brutus Booth, etc – became armory
BROOKLYN, NY – Brooklyn Paramount Theater
(NYC) – 385 Flatbush Avenue Extension and DeKalb Avenue – 4,127 – opened in 1928
- used for rock and roll concerts in the 1950s – has been converted to a gym in
1963
BROOKLYN, NY -
Brooklyn Strand Theater
BROOKLYN, NY – Brooklyn Theatre – see
Brooklyn Amphitheater – 1871 – Washington St – 1876 burnt down in fire in which
almost 300 died
BROOKLYN, NY – Bushwick Theater – 1911 – now
Acorn High School for Social Justice
BROOKLYN, NY -
Carlton Theater -
Flatbush Avenue
BROOKLYN, NY – Charlie Pineapple Theatre – new space at 112 S First Street
BROOKLYN, NY – Charlie Pineapple Theatre Company (Williamsburg) – reopens Oct 2010 after 4 year hiatus
BROOKLYN, NY – Commodore Theater – demolished
- to become new cinema
BROOKLYN, NY -
Coney Island
BROOKLYN, NY -
Crescent Theater – 1908 -
409 Flatbush Ave – 1529 seats
BROOKLYN, NY -
DeKalb Theater – 1155
DeKalb Ave – 1911 – 2242 seats
BROOKLYN, NY – DuFleas Military Garden -
Jerusalem St – 1800 – became theatre in 1829
BROOKLYN, NY -
Fox Theater – demolished
BROOKLYN, NY – Gates Theater – 1921 – 3,000
seats – now Pilgrim Church
BROOKLYN, NY – Halsey Theater – 1912 – 928
Halsey St
BROOKLYN, NY – Holmes Star Theater – 1880 -
395 Jay St – 1457 seats
BROOKLYN, NY -
Kings Theatre – Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn – 1929 – was talk of
restoration – now shuttered – restored
BROOKLYN, NY -
Loew’s
Metropolitan – now Brooklyn Tabernacle formerly in Carlton Theater
BROOKLYN, NY – Madison Theater – 500 seats
BROOKLYN, NY -
Majestic Theatre
BROOKYLYN, NY – Millenium Theatre – Brighton Beach Ave – few blocks from Coney Island Ave – neighbourhood theatre presenting attractions in Russian – started as movie house – began performances in 1996 – downstairs space rented out as nightclub – Ray Charles; Jackie Mason; Englebert Humperdinck
BROOKLYN, NY – Monroe Theater – 600 seats
BROOKLYN, NY – Montague Street – Academy of
Music burned
BROOKLYN, NY – Montauk Theater – moved to new
site and renamed Crescent
BROOKLYN, NY – Mrs. Chester’s Exchange Coffee
House – 1826 – Front St – George Frederick Handel appeared here – 1st recorded
theatrical performance in area
BROOKLYN, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg – 66
N 6th St
BROOKLYN, NY – New Brighton Theater – Brighton
Beach
BROOKLYN, NY – New Brooklyn Theater – see also Brooklyn’s Slave Theater
BROOKLYN, NY – New Montauk -
BROOKLYN, NY -
Orpheum Theater – 1906
-
BROOKLYN, NY -
Paramount Theater – ornate ceilings and pipe organ can still be found at the
Long Island University basketball court
BROOKLYN, NY -
Park Theatre – opened 1863 – demolished
BROOKLYN, NY – Prospect Park – 1866 – featured
Music Stand, Music Pagoda torn down 1949
BROOKLYN, NY -
Prospect Theater -
1914 – 327 9th St – 2448 seats
BROOKLYN, NY – Radio-Keith-Orpheum (RKO) -
BROOKLYN, NY -
Royal Theater – see
Watson’s Cozy Corner
BROOKLYN, NY – Shea Stadium – East Williamsburg – 20 Meadow St – small live music venue
BROOKLYN, NY – Shubert Theater – 1910 – Monroe
St – 1700 seats
BROOKLYN, NY – Slave Theater – 1215 Fulton Street, Bedford-Stuyvesant – New Brooklyn Theater (NBT), a non-profit theatre company that is raising funds to purchase the historic Slave Theatre in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, hosted a community forum Sept. 27 in Bed-Stuy, where NBT artistic director Jonathan Solari and executive producer Sarah Wolff announced the outlines of the company’s inaugural season
BROOKLYN, NY -
Star Theater -
BROOKLYN, NY – Theatre for a New Audience
- (TFANA) – company founded 1979 had used Duke on 42nd Street as venue -new theatre scheduled to open 2013 – new home in the emerging BAM Cultural District in Downtown Brooklyn, a former parking lot – will be the
first theatre to be constructed in the new district – 299-seat flexible theatre,
a 50-seat rehearsal/performance space, a café, offices, and a roof garden
BROOKLYN, NY – Watson’s Cozy Corner – 1903 -
15 Willoughby – 864 seats – became Royal
BROWNSVILLE, TX -
Majestic Theatre
BRUNSWICK, ME -
Merrymeeting Park Theatre
*BUCKSPORT, ME -
Alamo Theatre – 1916 – 85 Main St
BUCYRUS, OH – Bucyrus Theatre – abandoned
BUENA VISTA, CO – Hiller-Hallock Opera House –
opened 1882 – SE corner Colorado and Main – burned and demolished
BUENA VISTA, CO –
Orpheum Theatre – opened 1910 – 411 E.
Main – restored to original grandeur
BUFFALO, NY – Abbott Theatre – juncture of
South Park, Abbott Road and Bailey – 1914 – 498 seats – closed – now Connie’s
Laundry and Dry Cleaning
BUFFALO, NY -
Academy of Theatre Arts
BUFFALO, NY – Adelphi Theatre – early 1890s
house playing burlesque
BUFFALO, NY – Allendale Theatre – open
BUFFALO, NY –
Alleyway Theatre
BUFFALO, NY – Amherst Theatre – 3500 Main
Street – became University Plaza
BUFFALO, NY – Automatic Vaudeville Company –
see Steve Brodie’s Saloon
BUFFALO, NY – Bailey Theatre – torn down
BUFFALO, NY – Basil’s Variety Theatre –
Southeast corner of Bailey and Berkshire
BUFFALO, NY – Boulevard Mall Cinema I & II -
closed
BUFFALO, NY – Broadway Lyceum Theatre – 330
Broadway – - demolished – now a church
BUFFALO, NY – Broadway Theatre
BUFFALO, NY – Casino Theatre – 516 Broadway
near Jefferson – see Sattler Theatre
BUFFALO, NY – Central Park Theatre – Southeast
corner of Main and Fillmore – now parking lot
BUFFALO, NY – Centre Theatre – see Sheas
Hippodrome – closed & demolished
BUFFALO, NY – Century Theatre – vaudeville -
closed & demolished
BUFFALO, NY – Cinema – closed & demolished
BUFFALO, NY – Circle Arts Theatre – see Circle
Theatre and Varsity Theatre – closed
BUFFALO, NY – Circle Theatre – 444 Connecticut
Street – 1914 – 550 seats – 1962 became Circle Arts and later the Arab-American
Federation of Western New York
BUFFALO, NY – Colonial Theatre – 733 Genesee -
closed & demolished
BUFFALO, NY – Colvin Theatre – on Kenmore –
torn down
BUFFALO, NY – Commodore Theatre
BUFFALO, NY – Court Street Theatre
BUFFALO, NY -
Crystal Ballroom/Crystal Beach Amusement Park – 1926 – ballroom featured
Bert Niosi, Harold Justin & Maynard Ferguston – closed 1989
BUFFALO, NY – Edisonia Penny Arcade – see
Steve Brodie’s Saloon
BUFFALO, NY – Ellen Terry Theatre – 361 Grant
BUFFALO, NY – Elmwood Theatre – 1914 – 1600
seats – closed 1961 – used for theatre groups until 1965 when it was demolished
– now parking lot
BUFFALO, NY – Erlanger Theatre
BUFFALO, NY -
FIU Theatre
BUFFALO, NY – Frontier Theatre – 1913 – 188
Rhode Island Street at corner of West – later became the Senate Theatre
BUFFALO, NY -
Gayety Theatre – opened
as Gayety Burlesque – various name changes – closed & demolished
BUFFALO, NY – General Cinema Theatres – Seneca
Mall
BUFFALO, NY – Genessee Theatre – torn down
BUFFALO, NY – Granada Theatre – Main Street
BUFFALO, NY – Great Lakes Theatre – became
Paramount Theatre
BUFFALO, NY -
Irish Classical Theatre
BUFFALO, NY – Jewish Broadway Sun Theatre –
562 Broadway
BUFFALO, NY -
Kavinsky Theatre
BUFFALO, NY – Kensington Theatre – Kensington
and Bailey Ave – blew up from gas leak – see also Sheas Kensington
BUFFALO, NY -
Kleinhans Music Hall
BUFFALO, NY – Lafayette Theatre – During the
early 1960s the Lafayette hosted many legitimate theatre road-show companies in
the manner now associated with the Shea’s Buffalo – closed & demolished
BUFFALO, NY – Lincoln Theatre – 1406 Broadway
BUFFALO, NY – Lovejoy Theatre
BUFFALO, NY – Marlowe Theatre – still standing
BUFFALO, NY – Melody Fair – ran summers
1951-1954 and again in 1960s – Johnny Mathis, Gypsy with Angela Lansbury
BUFFALO, NY – Mercury Theatre – closed &
demolished
BUFFALO, NY – Mirror Theatre – 311 Connecticut
at Plymouth – 1909 – currently a bar and banquet hall named the Armory
BUFFALO, NY – New Ariel Theatre – 185 High
BUFFALO, NY – North Park Theatre – open
BUFFALO, NY – Palace Burlesque – Main Street –
razed
BUFFALO, NY – Paramount Theatre – see Great
Lakes Theatre – closed & demolished
BUFFALO, NY – Red Jacket Theatre – 774 Seneca
BUFFALO, NY – Regent Theatre – closed – still
standing
BUFFALO, NY – Rivoli Theatre – closed
BUFFALO, NY – RLTP Theatre – presents in a
90-seat theatre in the Market Arcade Film & Arts Centre at 639 Main St
BUFFALO, NY -
Road Less Traveled
Productions
BUFFALO, NY – Roxy Theatre – see Savoy Theatre
BUFFALO, NY – Sattler Theatre – 516 Broadway
near Jefferson – 1914 – 928 seats – on site of wooden frame Casino Theatre –
renamed Broadway 1920 – later became Basil’s Broadway – recent years used as Joy
Temple church – abandoned
BUFFALO, NY – Savoy Theatre – William and
Krettner – 1909 – 1500 seats – built on site of the Penny Arcade – later renamed
Roxie, and later became Roxy
BUFFALO, NY – Senate Theatre – see Frontier
Theatre
BUFFALO, NY – Seneca Theatre (Sheas) – Seneca
Street
BUFFALO, NY –
Sheas Buffalo Center
for the Performing Arts – 646 Main Street – see Sheas Performing Arts Center
BUFFALO, NY – Sheas Elmwood – 539 Elmwood
Avenue
BUFFALO, NY – Sheas Hippodrome – Olsen and
Johnson, Burns and Allen, Jack Benny – later became the Center Theatre
BUFFALO, NY – Sheas Kensington Theatre – see
Kensington Theatre
BUFFALO, NY – Sheas North Park Theatre –
Hertel Avenue
*BUFFALO, NY –
Sheas Performing Arts Center – 646 Main Street – built 1926 – 75 year old
cultural and historic landmark – George Burns and Gracie Allen, Marx Brothers,
Bob Hope, Red Skelton, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Bing Crosby, Tommy and
Jimmy Dorsey, Kay Kaiser, Harry James, Ink Spots – still running – restored and
stage enlarged in 1999
BUFFALO, NY – Steve Brodie’s Saloon – 473 Main
Street (later became 475 Main Street) – 1885 – was saloon and by 1887 became
music hall with saloon in front and theatre in the back – later became Edisonia
Penny Arcade – then Automatic Vaudeville Company – and 1908 reopened as Theatre
Comique – now Spherion Staffing
*BUFFALO, NY -
Studio Arena Theatre – group formed 1927
as Studio Theatre School – took over adapted nightclub – and became Studio Arena
in 1965 – moved to present location from Lafayette Ave in 1978, across the
street – 637 seats converted from burlesque house – 43-year-old theatre has shut
its doors, canceled the remainder of its season and laid off 17 staffers, it was
announced Feb. 25/08 – Since 1965 has presented a mix of classic and modern
plays, including world premieres of Edward Albee’s Box-Mao-Box, A.R. Gurney’s
Scenes From American Life, James Kirkwood’s P.S. Your Cat Is Dead!, Paul
Giovanni’s Sherlock Holmes play The Crucifer of Blood, Donald Driver’s In the
Sweet Bye and Bye, the Johnny Cash musical Ring of Fire, Tom Dudzick’s regional
hit trilogy that began with Over the Tavern, and Dudzick’s Hail Mary! – closed
2008
BUFFALO, NY – Teck Theatre (Sheas) – was once
a major legitimate house
BUFFALO, NY -
Temple of Music
BUFFALO, NY – Theatre Comique – closed &
demolished – see Steve Brodie’s Saloon
BUFFALO, NY – Town Casino – Four Lads
BUFFALO, NY – Towne Theatre – Abbott Road
BUFFALO, NY –University Plaza Theatre – see
Amherst Theatre
BUFFALO, NY – Varsity Theatre – Bailey Avenue
– became the Circle Arts
*BURLINGTON, VT -
Flynn Theatre – built 1930 as a
vaudeville house (1453 seats) – home of the Lyric Theatre group
CAIRO, IL – GEM Theatre – abandoned
C *CAMBRIDGE, MA -
American Repertory Theatre -
winner of Regional Theatre Tony Award 1986 – Loeb Drama Center (556 seats)
CAMBRIDGE, MA – Brattle Theatre – Since 1953,
converted failed Harvard Square playhouse into an art cinema CAMBRIDGE, MA –
Harvard University Theatre/Loeb Drama Centre (556 seats) – 1960 –
Hasty Pudding Club and Harvard
Dramatic Club – started 1908 – first known plays were Cato, Roman Father, Orphan
– Experimental Theatre (120 seats) – houses American Repertory Theatre since
1980 – Harvard Theatre Collection
CAMBRIDGE, MA – <”http://www.regattabar.com/”>Regattabar
in the Charles Hotel – One Bennett Street – cabaret venue
CAMP LEJEUNE, NC -
Camp Theatre
CANDO, ND – Audi Theater
CANON CITY – Canon City Opera House – 1885 –
614 Main St – built from converted skating rink – 500 seats – became cinema 1914
– later bowling alley – demolished 1967
CANTON, OH – Palace Theater – 1926 – 605
Market Ave N – Atmospheric style – 1400 seats – closed 1976 – restored and
reopened 1980
CAPE COD, MA -
Cape Playhouse
*CEDAR FALLS, IA -
Regent Theatre – 1910
CEDAR FALLS, IA -
Strayer-Wood Theatre
CENTRAL CITY, CO – Belvidere Theatre – 1875
CENTRAL CITY, CO –
Central City Opera House
– Eureka Street – 1878 – served goldminers and European immigrants – about 150
opera houses were built in Colorado between 1860 and 1920 – 1910-27 motion
pictures – restored 1931 – part of Aspen Music Festival
CENTRAL CITY, CO – Glory Hole – – Ray Bourbon
CENTRAL CITY, CO – Montana Theatre – 1861 –
built as National Theatre – changed name in 1862 – became Olympic Theatre 1872 –
burned 1874
CENTRAL CITY, CO – Summer Opera School –
1957-63
CERRITOS, CA -
Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts
- theater has six seating and stage configurations, including one that
accommodates cabaret-style performances. “It’s one of the finest performing arts
centers in the country. And, it turns out, one of the most successful
CHAMPAGNE, IL -
Orpheum Children’s
Science Museum (Orpheum Theatre) – built 1914
CHAMPAIGN-URBANA, IL –
National Women’s Music Festival –
moved to Ball State University, Muncie Indiana
CHANDLER, AZ -
Chandler Center for the Arts
CHAPEL HILL, NC – Carolina Theater –
Atmospheric style
CHAPEL HILL, NC – University of North
Carolina/Playmakers Playhouse Theatre – 1925
CHAPMAN’S FLOATING THEATRE – 1831 – showboat
that did shows along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers
CHARLESTON, SC – Academy of Music – 1869-1936
CHARLESTON, SC – American Company – group of
professional actors in Charleston 1763 – moved from old John Street Theatre to
new Park Street Theatre 1798
CHARLESTON, SC – Charleston Theatre – 1793 –
sold to the Medical College in 1833; 2nd Charleston Theatre 1837 – burned down
1861
CHARLESTON, SC – Church Street Theatre – 1773
– see French Theatre – demolished in 1786
CHARLESTON, SC – City Theatre – see French
Theatre
CHARLESTON, SC -
Dock Street Theatre (New
Theatre) – 1735 – Recruiting Officer 1736- closed 1738 and burned in
Charleston fire of 1740 – sold in 1749 – two more theatres were built on this
site – one in 1754 and one in 1766 – restored in 1935 and reopened in 1937 with
463 seats
CHARLESTON, SC – French Theatre – 1794 – later
called City Theatre or Church Street Theatre
CHARLESTON, SC – Harmony Hall – 1786
CHARLESTON, SC – New Charleston Theatre – 1837
CHARLESTON, SC -
- SPALETO FESTIVAL – 25th season for
the Charleston, South Carolina Festival
CHARLESTON, WV -
Municipal Auditorium
CHARLOTTE, NC – Charlotte Repertory Theatre -
founded 1976 – will shut its doors for good Feb. 20/05 – originally called
Actors Contemporary Ensemble (ACE) – 1984 changed name to Charlotte Repertory
Theatre – 1992 Rep found a new artistic home in the North Carolina Blumenthal
Performing Arts Center – 2003, the Rep completed its move into a new production
facility in the historic Charlotte neighborhood known as NoDa (North Davidson) -
The Miracle Worker with Hilary Swank, Angels in America, Proof, A Tuna
Christmas, The Glass Menagerie and more
CHARLOTTE, NC -
Blumenthal Performing Arts
Center-Knight Theater – 430 S. Tryon St.
CHARLOTTE, NC – Coliseum – demolished June
2007
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – Paramount Theater – 1931
CHAUTAUGUA, NY – Chautaugua Opera Association
– 1874
CHEBOYGAN, MI -
Opera House
CHELSEA, MI -
Purple Rose Theatre – 168 seats -
1990, the building was purchased by Jeff Daniels and donated to The Purple Rose
Theatre Company -theatre designed after Circle Repertory Theatre in New York and
named The Garage Theatre – venue — previously housing a gas station, bus garage,
pizza parlor and even a fresh vegetables stand — was renovated in 1999, almost
10 yearsinto PRTC’s run as an Equity theatre devoted to Midwestern voices, area
premieres and world premieres (by playwrights including Lanford Wilson and Jeff
Daniels himself)
CHEROKEE, NC -
Mountainside Theatre
CHESNEE, NC – Colonial Theatre
*CHESTER, CT –
National Theatre for the Deaf – founded 1967 – winner of Regional Theatre
Tony Award 1977
CHESTER, CT -
RIVER REPERTORY
CHICAGO, IL – About Face Theatre
(Administrative Office) – 3212 N. Broadway
CHICAGO, IL -
Actor’s Equity – Actors’ Equity
Association (AEA), the union representing more than 1,400 professional actors
and stage managers in the Chicago area and 48,000 nationwide, purchased a
building at 557 W. Randolph St. as its new Chicago office – to open 2010 -
Constructed in 1855 by Henry Horner & Co. Wholesale and Flour Dealers, the
facility is just one of two buildings in the area to survive the Great Chicago
Fire of 1871
CHICAGO, IL -
Actors Workshop Theatre
CHICAGO, IL – Adams Theater – 20 E. Adams St -
opened 1921 – 600 seats
CHICAGO, IL – Alcazar Theater – Clark &
Madison – during late 1920s was all night movie house
CHICAGO, IL – American Theater Company – 1909
W Byron
CHICAGO, IL -
Apollo Theatre – demolished
1949
CHICAGO, IL -
Apple Tree Theatre
- Highland Park, IL – company began in the same 88-seat church venue where
Steppenwolf Theatre Company had taken root – has performed mainstage productions
at three homes since 1983 – closed doors after 26 years
CHICAGO, IL – A Red Orchid Theatre – 1531 N
Wells St
CHICAGO, IL – Arie Crown Theatre
CHICAGO, IL – Astor Theater – 1922 – Clark &
Madison
CHICAGO, IL – Athenaeum Theatre
CHICAGO, IL – Auditorium – 1889 – 4500 seats –
closed since 1930s – restored 1960s
CHICAGO, IL -
Auditorium
Theatre of Roosevelt University
CHICAGO, IL – Avalon Theatre – 1925
*CHICAGO, IL – Bailiwick Arts Center – 1229
West Belmont Ave – home of Bailiwick Repertory Theatre – Parade 2004
CHICAGO, IL – Band Box – madison St – 1915
CHICAGO, IL – Barbee’s Theater – Monroe St -
closed 1923 and reopend as Monroe Theater
CHICAGO, IL – Belmont Theater – 2400 seats
CHICAGO, IL – Bijou Dream Theater – 1905 – 178
S. State St – next door to Orpheum at 176 S. State St – closed 1922
CHICAGO, IL -
Biograph Theatre – 2433 N. Lincoln
Ave – electric marquee (historically accurate, fully-functioning replica” of the
1930s marquee) of Chicago’s Biograph Theatre, site where criminal John Dillinger
was shot in 1934 by FBI agents, will be aglow again Sept. 28/06 when Victory
Gardens Theater (new owners)throws the switch, christening its new home there -
Originally built in 1914, this historic theater is one of only two remaining
examples of early movie theatre design in Chicago – theatre was designed to give
legitimacy to the fledgling film industry. Biograph Theater was placed on
National Registry of Historic Places – named a City Landmark in 1999
CHICAGO, IL – Black Ensemble Theatre – 4520 N
Beacon
CHICAGO, IL -
Blackstone
Theatre – see Merle Reskin Theatre
CHICAGO, IL – Boston Theater – 1911 – Madison
St. near Columbia Burlesque Theatre on Clark St – 750 seats
CHICAGO, IL – Briar Street Theatre – home of
Blue Man Group’s Chicago production since 1997
CHICAGO, IL – Burnham Plaza – 1988-closed 2005
CHICAGO, IL -
Cadillac Palace – 151 W Randolph Street – see Palace Theatre
CHICAGO, IL – Capitol Theatre – Atmospheric
style – closed & demolished
CHICAGO, IL – Castle Theatre – State St – 1916
- 300 seats – 1932 became all newsreel movie house
CHICAGO, IL – Central Park Theatre – 3535 W.
Roosevelt Rd – 1917 (2400 seats) – now House of Prayer Church of God in Christ
CHICAGO, IL – Century Theater – 2400 seats
CHICAGO, IL -
Chez Paree Theatre
Restaurant
CHICAGO, IL – Chicago Civic Opera Company –
new opera house built 1928
CHICAGO, IL – Chicago Jewish Theatre – closed
CHICAGO, IL – Chicago Lyric Opera – founded
1954
CHICAGO, IL – Chicago Music Theatre – summer
musicals 1950s
CHICAGO, IL – Chicago Opera Association – 1919
CHICAGO, IL – Chicago Opera House – Washington
Street – 3471 seats – early 1890s house playing burlesque
CHICAGO, IL – Chicago Oriental Theatre
CHICAGO, IL – Chicago Shakespeare Theatre -
begun in 1986 – first performed on roof of a pub- then moved to a cramped dance
school and in 1995 opened at Navy Pier – winner of regional Tony Award 2008
*CHICAGO, IL -
Chicago Theatre – 1921 -
175 N State St
CHICAGO, IL – Chicago Theater
CHICAGO, IL – Chicago Theatre Company – 500 E
67th St
CHICAGO, IL – Cinestage – Smell-O-Vision 1960
CHICAGO, IL – Cine Theatre – opened 1938
CHICAGO, IL -
Civic Opera House
CHICAGO, IL – Civic Theatre – 1929 – closed
1993 – became rehearsal space for Opera House
CHICAGO, IL -
Colonial Theatre
CHICAGO, IL – Columbia Burlesque Theatre -
Clark St
CHICAGO, IL – Columbia Theatre – 1881 (2000
seats) – see Haverly Theatre
CHICAGO, IL – Columbia Theatre 1911 (1550
seats) – became the Adelphi in 1923 and in 1974 the doors were closed for
demolition
CHICAGO, IL – ComedySportz – 2851 N Halsted
CHICAGO, IL –
Court Theatre at University of Chicago
– 5535 S. Ellis Ave – established 1955 – 2009/10 is their 55th season
CHICAGO, IL – Covent Garden Theater
CHICAGO, IL – Crosby’s Opera House – 1865
CHICAGO, IL – Crown Theatre – 1934 – West
Division St – built for both vaudeville and films
CHICAGO, IL – Dale Theatre – 1936 – built by
architect Louis Sullivan – Milwaukee Ave – still stands and has undergone many
name changes – opened as Rose in 1914
CHICAGO, IL -
Davenports Piano Bar and Cabaret
- 1383 North Milwaukee Avenue – Part piano bar, part cabaret, the club showcases
local Chicago talent along with national names and has launched a number of
careers, among them Karen Mason, Colleen McHugh and Matt Davis
CHICAGO, IL – Deluxe Theatre – Wilson Ave
CHICAGO, IL -
Drury Lane Theatre Water Tower
Place – 175 East Chestnut St – will open its doors in Chicago’s Magnificent
Mile May, 2005 – 549 seats – opening with a resident staging of The Full Monty;
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee – 2006; Drury Lane
CHICAGO, IL – Ear Theatre (1914-1952) – 1936 -
890 seats – now part ofDan Ryan Expressway
CHICAGO, IL – Erlanger Theatre – 1941 – opened
as New Palace 1912-1962
CHICAGO, IL – Esquire Theatre – built late
1930s – is closing and may be demolished – One possible proposal is mixed retail
and hotel – raising the curtain on a possible retail-hotel complex that would
replace the theater once its 1930s-era building is demolished
CHICAGO, IL – eta Creative Arts Foundation -
7558 S South Chicago Ave
CHICAGO, IL – Five Cent Theatre – 172 S. State
St – 325 seats – 1907
*CHICAGO, IL -
Ford Centre
for the Performing Arts’ Oriental Theatre – 24 W Randolph – opened 1926 as
Oriental Theatre (3,238 seats) – closed since 1981 – purchased by Livent 1996
and opened in 1998 with 2,180 seats – Ragtime; Wicked – 3 1/2 years; Billy
Elliot – March 2010
CHICAGO, IL – Garrick Theatre – 1934 – Louis
Sullivan architect – opened as Schiller in 1892 – demolished 1960
CHICAGO, IL – Gateway Theatre – now part of
Copernicus Cultural and Civic Centre – Atmospheric style – 2045 seats
CHICAGO, IL -
Gift Theatre – 4802 Miluakeee
*CHICAGO, IL -
Goodman Memorial Theatre – 1925
(683 seats) – 170 N Dearborn – two theatres on the site of an old garage – also
houses Goodman Theatre Studio (135 seats) – along with Cleveland Playhouse –
oldest regional theatres in United States – The landmark Harris and Selwyn
theatres, their facades preserved, were incorporated into the new Goodman
Theatre on Randolph Street – American Buffalo 1975; Life in the Theatre 1977 -
winner of Regional Theatre Tony Award – 1992
CHICAGO, IL – Grand Opera House – also known
as Linton Opera House – North Clark Street – later known as Grand Theatre – and
then operated under various names from 1876 to 1958 – torn down late 1970s or
early 1980s
*CHICAGO, IL – Harris Theatre – The landmark
Harris and Selwyn theatres, their facades preserved, were incorporated into the
new Goodman Theatre on Randolph Street – $52.7-million (U.S.) 1,452-seat
theatre, which opened 2004 – opposite Jay Prizker Pavilion in Millennium Park,
the theatre has given Chicago Opera Theatre a home
CHICAGO, IL – Haverly’s Theatre – 1882 –
renamed Columbia Theatre in 1885
CHICAGO, IL – Hull House – 1900
CHICAGO, IL -
Illinois Theatre
CHICAGO, IL – ImprovOlympic- 3541 N Clark St
CHICAGO, IL – Iroquois Theatre – fire 1903
during performance by Eddie Foy – over 600 lives lost due to panic
CHICAGO, IL – Lakeside Theatre – 1915 – 4730
N. Sheridan Rd – 1000 seats – vaudeville and films – remained open until 1966 -
1970 to 2000 housed Columbia College Dance Centre – 2000 became youth centre
CHICAGO, IL -
LaSalle Bank Theatre -
Umpire 1905 (300)- formerly the Shubert Theatre – April 2006 – After a 14-month
restoration, Chicago’s LaSalle Bank Theatre — formerly the Shubert Theatre —
will reopen with a one-night-only concert by Tony Award winner Michael Crawford
*CHICAGO, IL -
League of Chicago Theatres
CHICAGO, IL – Live Bait Theater – 3914 N Clark
St
CHICAGO, IL – Lifeline Theatre
*CHICAGO, IL -
Lookingglass Theatre – founded
in 1988 by group of 8 Northwestern University grads including David Schwimmer -
new theatre as of June, 2003 – inside of Water Works on Michigan Avenue,
historic location built in 1869 and was one of the few buildings to survive the
great fire of 1871 – 220 seats – group has performed at more than 20 different
sites over last 15 years – Metamorphoses – moved to Broadway – winner of Regional Tony Award 2011;
CHICAGO, IL – Lyric Theatre – 252 S. State St
- 290 seats – 1907
CHICAGO, IL – Majestic Theatre
CHICAGO, IL – Marbro Theatre – 1930 – West
Side – 2nd largest theatre in Chicago
CHICAGO, IL -
Maxim’s
- 24 East Goethe Street
CHICAGO, IL – Mayfair Theatre – Shear Madness
(7232 performances as of Nov 11/99 when Hotel Mayfair was closed down)
CHICAGO, IL – McVicker’s First Theatre – 1857
– Madison Street near State – destroyed in the great Chicago Fire of 1871
CHICAGO, IL – McVicker’s Second Theatre – 1872
– the first having been build in 1857 and destroyed in the great Chicago Fire of
1871
CHICAGO, IL – Mercury Theatre – 3745 North
Southport Avenue – Parade 2004
CHICAGO, IL -
Merle Reskin
Theatre – see also Blackstone Theatre
CHICAGO, IL – Midway Gardens – demolished
CHICAGO, IL – Monroe Theatre – see Barbee’s
Theater
CHICAGO, IL – Mr. Kelly’s – Barbra Streisand
CHICAGO, IL – Music Box Theater – 1929 – 800
seats – Atmospheric style – closed 1977 – 2nd screen added
CHICAGO, IL – National Pastime Theater – 2012 is 20th season – relocating to Masonic Hall (4th floor) as of Feb 14/12 – 941 W. Lawrence Ave – Preston Bradley Center – 300 seats
CHICAGO, IL – New Palace 1912-1962 – see
Erlanger
CHICAGO, IL – New Regal Theatre – 79th Stony
Island – Atmospheric style
CHICAGO, IL – Nortown Theatre – Atmospheric
style – closed
CHICAGO, IL – Oak Park Festival Theatre
CHICAGO, IL – Olympic Theatre – Howard
Thornton 1921
CHICAGO, IL -
Orchestra Hall
*CHICAGO, IL – Oriental Theatre – Randolph
Street – late 1926 – Chicago has seen many of its old theatres rescued from
decay, including the Oriental, renovated by the now defunct Livent – see Ford
Centre for the Performing Arts – Bobby Short
CHICAGO, IL – Orpheum Theatre – 176 S State
Street
CHICAGO, IL -
Palace
Theatre – Shrek March 2010;
CHICAGO, IL – Pantheon Theatre – 4642 N.
Sheridan Rd. – 3000 seats – 1918 – largest movie house in Chicago – pipe organ
and 30 piece orchestra – closed 1928 – reopened and remained in business until
early 1960s – demolished and became parking lot
CHICAGO, IL -
Paradise Theatre
- 1928 – Atmospheric style – demolished 1956 for supermarket
CHICAGO, IL – Paramount Theatre – noted for
debut of Sally Rand
CHICAGO, IL -
Park
West – 322 West Armitage Avenue – cabaret venue
CHICAGO, IL – Pastime Nickelodeon – 1916 -
Madison St E. of Clark
CHICAGO, IL – Patio Theater – Atmospheric
style – closed
CHICAGO, IL – Philadelphia Opera 1910-21 – was
formed to take over from defunct Manhattan Opera in NYC – toured
CHICAGO, IL – Piper’s Alley Theatre – 230 W.
North Ave @ Wells – Tony ‘n Tina’s Wedding
- started 1993 – now on hiatus until Nov 2009;
CHICAGO, IL – Playground Improv Theater
CHICAGO, IL -
Princess Theatre – late
19th century
CHICAGO, IL – Profiles Theatre – new venue April 13/12 – 99 seat Main Stage, 4139 N. Broadway, next door to 65 seat space, renamed the Alley Stage
CHICAGO, IL – Punch and Judy Theatre – 1929 -
East Van Buren – operated under 11 different names from 1893 to 1969
CHICAGO, IL – Randolph Theatre – East of
Oriental Theatre
CHICAGO, IL – Ravinia Park – 1911-1931 – had
10 week opera season – later revived as Ravinia Festival
CHICAGO, IL – Red Orchid Theatre
CHICAGO, IL – Regal Theater – Atmospheric
style – closed & demolished
CHICAGO, IL – Rialto Theatre – 1838-1840
CHICAGO, IL – Rice’s Theatre – 1847 – burnt
down 1850
CHICAGO, IL –
CHICAGO, IL – Riviera Theater – 1918-present –
4746 N. Racine Ave – now concert venue
CHICAGO, IL – Rose Theatre – Clark and Madison
Sts – demolished early 1920s
CHICAGO, IL – Rose Theatre – 1914 – 2860 N.
Milwaukee Ave – 700 seats – closed 1950s – now restaurant – see Dale Theatre
CHICAGO, IL – Royal George Theatre – 1641
North Halsted Ave
*CHICAGO, IL – St. Nicholas Theatre – 1974
founded by David Mamet, W.H. Macy et al – opened with American Buffalo (1974)
CHICAGO, IL – Sam T. Jack Theatre – Madison
and State Streets – upstairs (600 seats)
CHICAGO, IL – Schiller Theatre – 1892 – see
Garrick Theatre
CHICAGO, IL – Second City – 1616 N Wells St
*CHICAGO, IL – Selwyn Theatre – The landmark
Harris and Selwyn theatres, their facades preserved, were incorporated into the
new Goodman Theatre on Randolph Street
CHICAGO, IL – Shore Theatre – 1934 – operated
for 30 years on E 7th St
CHICAGO, IL -
Shubert
Theatre – 22 West Monroe – name changed to LaSalle Bank Theatre
CHICAGO, IL – Soldiers’ Field – Liberace 1955
CHICAGO, IL – Spectatorium – planned for
Chicago Exposition – 1893 – abandoned
CHICAGO, IL – Star Nickelodeon – 1916 -
Madison St between Clark and Dearborn – 1922 became coffee shop
CHICAGO, IL – Steele MacKaye’s Spectatorium –
1893 – never build – Lakeshore at 56th Street was under construction for the
World Fair, but no money to complete project
CHICAGO, IL -
Steppenwolf Theatre Company – Chicago
- began 1974 in church basement – 1991 permanent home in 510 seat plus studio
theatre (100-300 seats)- 1650 N. Halsted St – winner of Regional Theatre Tony
Award – 1985
CHICAGO, IL – Storefront Theater, Gallery 37
Center for the Arts – 66 E Randolph St
CHICAGO, IL – Strawdog Theatre Company – 3829
North Broadway
CHICAGO, IL -
Theatre Building Chicago – 1225 West Belmont Avenue – 3 theatre cabaret 150
seat venues – incubator for developing theatre companies, new musicals and
emerging theatre artists – TBC’s Musical Development Program offers works in
multiple stages of development and nurtures new works through its Musical
Theatre Writers Workshop and through collaboration with theatre companies and
artists across the country
CHICAGO, IL – Theatre Downstairs, new 300-seat
space in the historic building at 175 North State Street being inaugurated July
2006
CHICAGO, IL – Thurston’s Folly Theatre – last
remnant of a museum chain – as late as 1929 admission was still 10 cents
CHICAGO, IL – TimeLine Theatre – 615 W.
Wellington Ave
CHICAGO, IL – Tivoli Theatre
CHICAGO, IL – Unique Theatre – State St – 1919
- between Adams and Van Buren, N. of Rialto Theatre – 300 seats
CHICAGO, IL – United Artists – Randolph St -
late 1920s
CHICAGO, IL – United Center
*CHICAGO, IL – Uptown Theatre and Center for
the Arts – situated at the corner of Broadway and Lawrence north of The Loop,
opened as a movie and vaudeville house (4400 seats)- larger than Radio City
Music Hall – ran as film house from 1925 to 1968. In the 1970s, it became a
concert hall, but was shut down in 1980 – Performers Kaye Ballard, Anne Reinking
and Chita Rivera have offered their support to the Uptown Theater and Center for
the Arts, a Chicago based organization which aims to restore the 76-year-old
Uptown Theatre to its former glory. The three artists will sit on the theatre’s
advisory board
CHICAGO, IL -
Vic Theatre – built 1912
*CHICAGO, IL -
Victory Gardens Theater – 2257
North Lincoln Avenue – theatre was founded in 1974 in the top floor of the
Northside Auditorium Building (now the Cabaret Metro – 3730 N. Clark St) and
moved in 1981 to its current location at 2257 N. Lincoln Avenue and expanded in
1995 with the purchase and rehab into the upstairs Body Politic space. In 1997,
VG officially formed the Victory Gardens Playwrights Ensemble – houses a
mainstage and a smaller 2nd stage – winner of the 2001 Tony Award for
outstanding regional theatre – will purchase the historic Biograph Theater — the
movie house where criminal Public Enemy No. 1 John Dillinger was gunned down —
and develop it as a new two venue playhouse, – will boast a five-theatre campus
when the Biograph Theater (2433 N. Lincoln Avenue), reopens in all 2005 as the
mainstage home for new American plays -”Victory Gardens will keep its current
location two blocks south at 2257 N. Lincoln Avenue, thus growing Victory
Gardens into a five-theatre creative campus – Biograph will be a 299-seat
mainstage theatre, offering “a modified thrust mainstage, and 299 seats
configured with a main floor of approximately 200 seats and a balcony of 99
seats.” – Victory Gardens at the Biograph will also house a smaller, 128-seat
theatre; Denmark, is slated as the first play to be staged in the theatre’s new
venue, launching Victory Gardens’ 2005-2006 season; Following Victory Gardens’
expansion to the Biograph, Victory Gardens’ current facility at 2257 N. Lincoln,
will continue to be used for the production of plays; “2257″ will be modified to
house two 195-seat theaters, one 60-seat studio theater, a new Playwrights
Lounge – see also Zacek-McVay Theater
CHICAGO, IL – Wisdom Bridge Theatre Company –
American regional theatre – started 1974 in small storefront Chicago theatre
(196 seats)
CHICAGO, IL – World’s Fair – 1893 – Little
Egypt in “Streets of Cairo,” created a sensation
CHICAGO, IL – Zacek-McVay Theater – see also
Victory Gardens has purchased and already begun renovations to the nationally
landmarked Biograph movie house, located at 2433 N. Lincoln Avenue in Chicago’s
Lincoln Park neighborhood. In it will be the 299-seat theater – theatre was
founded in 1974 in the top floor of the Northside Auditorium Building (now the
Cabaret Metro) and moved in 1981 to its current location at 2257 N. Lincoln
Avenue and expanded in 1995 with the purchase and rehab into the upstairs Body
Politic space. In 1997, VG officially formed the Victory Gardens Playwrights
Ensemble
CHICAGO, IL – Zanies Comedy Club – 1548 N
Wells St
CHICO, CA – El Ray (UA) – closed 2005
CHICOPEE, MA – Rivoli Theater – to become
nightclub
CHILLICOTHE, TX – Strand Theatre
CINCINNATI, OH – Albee Theatre – 1927
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park – Thompson Shelterhouse stage
CINCINNATI, OH – Grand Central Variety Hall –
Annie Hindle manager theatre 1870s – closed due to poor attendance
CINCINNATI, OH -
Music Hall – 1878 -
combined 3 buildings under 1 roof – Springer Auditorium 3600 seats
CINCINNATI, OH – NA Showcase Eastgate – closed
2005
*CINCINNATI, & COLUMBUS, OH -
Ohio Theatres – Cincinnati;
Ohio Theatre – 1928;
Columbus – opened 1928 as a Loews movie house (2779 seats) – was slated for
demolition in 1969;Palace
Theatre – opened in 1926 as vaudeville and movie house – 1929 became RKO
(Radio Keith Orpheum – until the 1970s -(2827 seats) – home to Opera/Columbus;Southern
Theatre – opened in 1896 as The Great Southern Fireproof Hotel and Opera
House (1723 seats) – in 1931 it became a movie theatre – 1979 closed and
reopened in 1998 – oldest surviving theatre in central Ohio; Capital – 1989 (854
seats). Between 1889 and 1893 in downtown Columbus, The Metropolitan Opera
House, The Henrietta, The Geary World Museum, The Globe and The Park Theatre all
succumbed to fires
CINCINNATI, OH – Orphem Theater
CINCINNATI, OH – Page Manor – closed 2005
CINCINNATI, OH – Penny Hippodrome 1906
CINCINNATI, OH – Pike’s Opera House – 1859 –
burned 1866 – rebuilt 1867 and burned again in 1903
*CINCINNATI, OH -
Playhouse in the Park – 41st Anniversary
- Robert S. Marx Theatre (629 seats) – built 1968; Thompson Shelterhouse Theatre
(220 seats) converted in 1960 from a park shelterhouse
CINCINNATI, OH – Robert S. Marx Theatre – see
Playhouse in the Park
CINCINNATI, OH – Thompson Shelterhouse – see
Cincinnatti Playhouse in the Park
CLARENDON, TX – Mulkey Theatre
CLARKSVILLE, TN -
Roxy Regional Theatre
CLAUDE, TX – Gem Theatre
CLAYTON, NM – Luna Theater
CLEVELAND, OH -
Allen Theatre – recently
restored as part of Cleveland Playhouse Square, one of the largest theatre
restoration projects in the world
CLEVELAND, OH – Brooks Theatre – see Cleveland
Playhouse
CLEVELAND, OH – Cedar Gardens – nightclub
famous from the 1930s into the 1950s – closed
*CLEVELAND, OH -
Cleveland Playhouse – opened 1927
- 2 stages – Drury (515) and Brooks (160) – 3rd theatre – Euclid (77th Street –
567 seats) added 1949 – first resident professional theatre in United States –
founded 1915 – disused church – Romeo and Juliet – moved to present location
1927 – 1983 opened new theatre complex – Effect of the Gamma Rays…1969; First
Monday in October 1975; – plan to move to a newly renovated space in downtown,
in partnership with Cleveland State U. and arts complex PlayhouseSquare -
renovate PlayhouseSquare’s Allen Theater, changing it from a 2,500-seat
auditorium to two smaller theaters, one with 550 seats and one at 300, plus the
addition of a third space that seats 175 – Play House would share joint
occupancy of the new Allen Theater complex with PlayhouseSquare (which is
unrelated to the Play House, despite the similarity in names) and CSU. All three
orgs will undertake to raise the funds for the plan – The Play House currently
stages programming in a complex of multiple theaters, none seating more than
550, which also are rented to other companies
CLEVELAND, OH -
Colonial Theatre
CLEVELAND, OH – Elite Club – famous nightclub
CLEVELAND, OH – Gleasons – E 55th and Woodland
- famous nightclub – Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie
Parker
CLEVELAND, OH – Oster’s Ballroom – E 105th
Street near Carnegie – famous nightclub
CLEVELAND, OH – Oxford Theater – 1931 -
Ontario & Champlain – double screens – demolished
CLEVELAND, OH – Palace Theater
CLEVELAND, OH -
Playhouse Square Center
CLEVELAND, OH -
Severance Hall
CLOVIS, NM -
State Theatre
COLDWATER, MI -
Tibbits
Opera House – built 1882
COLORADO CITY – Waycott Opera House – 1891 –
fire 2002
COLORADO SPRINGS -
Burns Opera House -
built 1912 – 1928 became film theatre as Paramount, then Chief – demolished 1973
COLORADO SPRINGS – Colorado Springs Opera
House – 1881 – 18 N. Tejon St – 1904 became vaudeville house – movie theatre
1919 – converted to stores – vacant 1989
COLUMBIA, CA -
Fallon House Theatre *
COLUMBIA, MO -
Missouri Theatre – 1928 – (1225 seats)-
movies in the 1940s – mid 1980s turned into 3 theatres
*COLUMBIA, SC -
Town Theatre -
built 1924 – the oldest community theatre building in continuous use in the
United States – renovated in 1993
COLUMBUS, GA -
Springer Opera House
COLUMBUS, OH – Airdrome – owned by Ma Rainey
*COLUMBUS, OH -
Capitol (Vern Riffe Center)
COLUMBUS, OH – Clinton Theater – North High
Street
COLUMBUS, OH – Drexel Theater – 1937 – still
operating – classic art deco
COLUMBUS, OH – Garden Theater – Atmospheric
style – closed
COLUMBUS, OH – Ohio Theatre – 1928
COLUMBUS, OH – Hollywood Theater – now row of
empty stores
COLUMBUS, OH – Lincoln Theater – East Long St
COLUMBUS, OH – Main Theater – marquee still
exists
COLUMBUS, OH -
Majestic Theatre
*COLUMBUS, OH -
Ohio Theatre – 1928 by
Thomas Lamb – atmospheric – a haven for emerging artists and host to the current
production of Tennessee Williams’ 10 Blocks on the Camino Real — has received a
stay of execution from its landlords 2009
COLUMBUS, OH -
Olentangy Park Theatre
*COLUMBUS, OH -
Palace Theatre – 1926
*COLUMBUS, OH -
Southern Theatre – 1896
COLUMBUS, TX -
Stafford Opera House
CONWAY, NH – Majestic Theatre – burned 2005
COOPERSTOWN, NY -
Alice Busch Opera
Theatre/Glimmerglass Opera
COOS BAY, OR – Bandon Playhouse continues to
put out grand musicals
COOS BAY, OR – Dolphin Players has entered
into a partnership with SOCC and contributes a lighter play a year to the SOCC
stage. Most recently, they’ve produced Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living
in Paris and Goodnight Desdemona/Good Morning Juliet
COOS BAY, OR -
Egyptian Theatre – 81-year-old
Egyptian was closed November 2007 and has come under the wings of a conservation
group that hopes to restore it to its long lost glory. When it was built, film
was considered a passing fancy and Vaudeville was the staying force, so it was
built with a Mighty Wurlitzer theater pipe organ – They’re showing old movies
for cheap admission and accepting membership donations
COOS BAY, OR – HALES Center for the Performing
Arts at SOCC
COOS BAY, OR –
Little Theater On The Bay – in North Bend does a spring musical (2007,
Anything Goes), three straight plays and two country Western shows (Lil Ol Opry
on the Bay) a year
COOS BAY, OR -
On Broadway Thespians (because
the main drag in Coos Bay is Broadway and they’re on it) has moved across the
street from an intimate space seating 89 to the 500+ seat Egyptian Theater,
where they do children’s theater using the Egyptian scenic backdrops and improv
comedy at Gussie’s Dine & Dance, a local night spot
COOS BAY, OR -
Sawdust Theatre in Coquille still
does their melodramas with oleos between Memorial and Labor Days
COOS BAY, OR -
Southwestern Oregon
Community College – theatre department does “academic theatre” such as
Antigone, Laramie project and Waiting for Godot
COOS BAY, OR -
Waterfront Players – does a
couple of ensemble productions a year in their small 3/4 thrust space in Pony
Village Mall – owners travel the world seeing plays, then come home to their
local cadre of players and turn out a credible job
COOS BAY, OR -
On Broadway Thespians (because
the main drag in Coos Bay is Broadway and they’re on it) has moved across the
street from an intimate space seating 89 to the 500+ seat Egyptian Theater,
where they do children’s theater using the Egyptian scenic backdrops and improv
comedy at Gussie’s Dine & Dance, a local night spot
CORPUS CHRISTI, TX – Ritz Theater –
Atmospheric style – closed
CORTEZ, CO – Cortez Opera House – 1897 – now
Elk’s Lodge
CORTEZ, CO – Craig Opera House – 1891 – burned
before 1896
CORTEZ, CO – New Opera House – 1896 – Russell
Street – now plumbing business
CORTLAND, NY -
Cortland Rep – housed in Pavilion
Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park, Little York Lake, Little York
COSTA MESA, CA – Mama Rose – 2346 Newport
Boulevard – cabaret venue
COSTA MESA, CA – Orange County Performing Arts
Center – 600 Town Center Drive – Founders Hall – more intimate space featuring
cabaret
*COSTA MESA, CA -
South Coast Repertory of Costa Mesa – founded
1964 – housed in the Folino Theatre Center – winner of Regional Theatre Tony
Award – 1988 – 1965-1968 Second Step Theatre (Balboa Peninsula); 1967-1978 Third
Step Theatre (217 seats); Fourth Step opened 1978 with 507 seats; 1979 Second
Stage added with 161 seats – doubles its size Fall 2002 by adding a new 336 seat
second stage, Julianne Argyros Stage and renovating the 507 seat main Segerstrom
Stage, the third space is Nicholas Studio, a 95 seat house where Pulitzer prize
winning “Wit” started – 2002 became the Folino Theatre Center – Violet Hour 2002
- now a three theatre complex
CREEDE, CO – Collins Opera House – 1893 –
burned 1937
CREEDE, CO – Creede Repertory Theater
celebrated its 40th season which produces nine plays on two stages
CRETE, NE – Crete Opera House
CRETE, NE – Isis Movie Theater – 139 W 13th St – opened 1926 as film house – had orchestra pit and 425 seats, currently 300 seats
CRETE, NE – Lyric Movie Theatre – 1930-1940 – across street from Isis – now part of VFW Club
CRETE, NE – Rivoli
CRETE. NE – Times Theatre – 1940-1955 – 435 seats – was on the first floor of the Crete Opera House was on the present site of Great Western Bank
CRIPPLE CREEK, CO – Abbott Opera House – 1896
CRIPPLE CREEK, CO – Butte Opera House – 1896 –
burned 1896 – restored
CRIPPLE CREEK, CO – Grand Opera House – 1897 –
built as Topic Theatre – burned 1907
CRIPPLE CREEK, CO – Grand Opera House – 1892 –
128 E. Myers – burned 1896
CRIPPLE CREEK, CO – Koch Opera House – prior
to 1894
CRIPPLE CREEK, CO – Lyric Opera House – 1909 –
burned 1916 – now Double Eagle Casino
CROSBY, ND –
Dakota Theater
CULVER CITY, CA – Culver Theater – see Kirk
Douglas Theatre – Culver Theater, a former three screen cinema, opened in 1947
and served film buffs in the area until 1989. It was the site of many movie
sneak previews. The building has been designated a historic landmark, and its
exterior is protected by Culver City ordinance. Center Theatre Group and the
Culver City Redevelopment Agency entered into an agreement in 1999 to transform
the building into a live theatre venue, with 400 seats downstairs – the Culver
Theatre ceased operations in 1989 and was damaged in the 1994 Northridge
earthquake. In 1997, the Center Theatre Group began investigating the theatre’s
possible use as a live venue – to feature two stages: a main floor theatre that
will seat between 300 and 425 persons and a theatre lab on the upper level with
a capacity of about 100
CULVER CITY, CA – Kirk Douglas Theater -
formerly the Culver Theater, a cinema, site of many movie sneak previews
D DALLAS, TX – AMC Grand 24 -
1995 – 3200 stadium seats
DALLAS, TX – AT&T Performing Arts Center – see
Dallas Center for the Performing Arts
DALLAS, TX -
Dallas Center for the Performing
Arts – new multi-venue performing arts center for music, opera, theatre and
dance will provide new homes for The Dallas Opera, the Dallas Theater Center,
Dallas Black Dance Theatre, Texas Ballet Theater, Anita N. Martinez Ballet
Folklorico, and other Dallas-area performing arts organizations – will open in
Dallas in 2009 – to include Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House and its
Margaret McDermott Performance Hall-a 2,200-seat venue; Dee and Charles Wyly
Theatre-a flexible 600-seat theatre; Annette Strauss Artist Square-a new home
for the city’s premier outdoor performing arts venue, able to accommodate
audiences of up to 5,000; City Performance Hall-a main stage production space
for Dallas’ smaller performing arts organizations; Anchored by the Dallas Museum
of Art (1984); the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center (1989); the Nasher
Sculpture Center (2003); and the Booker T. Washington High School for the
Performing and Visual Arts (2007) – renamed AT&T Performing Arts Center Oct 2009
- Five companies will be in residence at the center, including the Dallas
Theater Center, Dallas Opera, Texas Ballet Theater, Dallas Black Dance Theatre
and Anita N. Martinez Ballet Folklorico. The venues include the Winspear Opera
House, the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, Annette Strauss Artist Square, City
Performance Hall, as well as the ten-acre Elaine D. and Charles A. Sammons Park,
which unites the venues
DALLAS, TX – Dallas Childrens Theatre – formed
1984 – converted from a bowling alley
DALLAS, TX – Dallas Civic Opera – 1957
*DALLAS, TX -
Dallas Theatre Center – 1959
- playhouse designed by Frank Lloyd Wright – Kalita Humphreys Theatre (516) and
Down Center Stage 1964 (56) – also runs Magic Turtle Children’s Theatre -
started building Rem Koolhaas’s Wyly Theater, part of a cultural complex
DALLAS, TX –
Kalita Humphreys Theatre/Dallas
Theatre Centre – see Dallas Theater Center
DALLAS, TX – Landmark Inwood – reopened 2005
DALLAS, TX – Majestic Theatre – 1923 –
Atmospheric style
DALLAS, TX -
Margot and Bill Winspear Opera
House – opening Oct 18/09
DALLAS, TX – Margo Jones Theatre – Inge’s
“Farther Off From Heaven” 1947
DALLAS, TX -
Meyerson Symphony Center – opened 1989
DALLAS, TX -
Morton H. Meyerson Symphony
Center
DALLAS, TX -
Music Hall
DALLAS, TX -
Old Globe Theatre
DALLAS, TX – Theatre 47 – arena style theatre
DALLAS, TX -
Trinity River Arts Center – 2600
Stemmons Freeway – Kim Dawson Theater
DANVILLE, IN -
Royal Theatre
DAWSON, MN – Grand Theatre – abandoned
DAWSON CITY, YUKON – Orpheum Theatre
DAWSON CITY, YUKON – Palace Grande – Foxy 1962
DAYTON, OH -
Artist’s Crossing – launches its
first conservatory July 11-24/04, on the campus of Wright State University in
Dayton (see also) – where Judith Blazer has taught and where co founder Joseph
Bates serves as music director and coordinator of voice for the Department of
Theatre Arts
DAYTON, OH -
Human Race Theatre – Founded in
1986 – moved to the Metropolitan Arts Center in 1991 – residence at The Loft, a
219-seat theatre
DAYTON, OH -
USAF Museum IMAX
*DAYTON, OH -
Victoria Theatre – opened 1866 as
Turner Opera House- fire 1869 – renamed Victoria Opera House in 1899 – 1913
flood – 1918 another fire- reopened 1919 as Victory Theatre – 1972 marked for
demolition – 1988 renamed the Victoria and restored
DAYTON, OH – Wright State University – see
Artist’s Crossing
DEADWOOD, SD -
Gem
Theatre – burned to ground 1899
DEATH VALLEY, CA – Amargose Opera House
DECATUR, IL – Avon Theater
DEER ISLE VILLAGE, ME – Performing Arts Center
DE KALB, IL -
Egyptian Theatre
DELAWARE, WS – Grand Opera – 1921 – became the
Grand, as a movie house
DEL NORTE, CO – Del Norte Opera House – 1876 –
350 seats – demolished mid 1960s
DEL RIO, TX – Texas Theatre
DELTA, CO – Anna Dora Opera House – 1896 -
burned 1939 DELUTH, MN – Grand Opera House – late 19th century – fire
DENNIS, MA – Cape Cinema – 1903 – 99 seats
*DENNIS, MA -
Cape Playhouse – 1927 -
America’s oldest professional summer theatre
DENTON, TX -
UNT Murchison Performing
Arts Center
DENVER, CO – Academy of Music – 1882 – became
Denver Theatre 1888 – destroyed 1886 – restored as Denver Music Hall – 1000
seats
DENVER, CO – America Theater
DENVER, CO – Apollo Hall – 1858 DENVER, CO –
Bonfils Theatre – 1929 opened as the University Civic Theatre – 1953 moved to
550 seat building and name changed – Bo-Ban’s Cabaret situated downstairs (90
seats)
DENVER, CO – Broadway Theatre – 1890 – 18th
and Broadway – 1800 seats – demolished 1955
DENVER, CO – Central City Opera House – 1878 –
see Bonfils Theatre – restored 1832 DENVER, CO – Colonial Theater
DENVER, CO – Colorado Theater
DENVER, CO – Cooper Cinerama
*DENVER, CO -
Denver Centre for the Performing Arts
- created the Stage (650 seats); Space (450 seats) and Lab (150 seats) – 1998
Tony Award for outstanding regional theatre – home to Denver Centre Theatre
Company – Garner Galleria Theater – Always…Patsy Cline 1995 (1,498); I Love
You, You’re Perfect, Now Change 2000 (1,499)
DENVER, CO -
Denver Civic Theatre – plans to take
over the dormant Denver Civic Theatre located on Sante Fe Drive – make into
Equity house for Off-Broadway style fare – small 100-seat black box space, and
larger 289-seat house – talk of possible retail shops for the 1921 building —
perhaps a coffee house, gallery or restaurant – building was one of Denver’s
first silent movie houses and over the years has had multiple uses – mid-1980s
created plan to turn the theatre into a performance space, and by the 1990s the
doors had opened – May 1, 2003 launch date for the new theatre – 1921 – original
facility was built and housed one of Denver’s first silent movie houses, The
Cameron Theatre; 1985 – formally Bonfils Theatre, now named the Lowenstein; 1991
– The Denver Civic Theatre premiered its first production. 1999 – Denver Civic
Theatre, Inc. established as Denver’s “Off-Broadway” production house; DCT
becomes home to several new resident companies; May 2002 – Last production at
the Denver Civic Theatre; February 13, 2003 – spring production, the World
Premiere of BROOKLN
DENVER, CO – Denver Theatre – opened as Platte
Valley Theatre 1861– changed to Denver Opera House 1876 – back to Denver Theatre
– destroyed fire 1877
*DENVER, CO -
Elitch’s Gardens
Theatre/Pavilion – 1890 – see Bonfils Theatre – America’s oldest summer
playhouse, in continuous operation – closed 1991 – being restored
DENVER, CO – Ellie Caulkins Opera House -
Little Mermaid (Disney musical) – June 2007
DENVER, CO – Empress Theater
Equity Community Theatre – winner of Regional
Theatre Tony Award 1953
DENVER, CO – Forrester Opera House/Guard Opera
House/Guard Hall/Forrester Opera House/Denver Opera House and Armory Hall –
demolished 1915
DENVER, CO – Fox Mayan Theater
DENVER, CO – Iris Theater
DENVER, CO – Isis Theater
DENVER, CO – Manhatten Beach Theatre – 1891 –
burned down 1908
DENVER, CO – Metropolitan Theatre – 1889 –
later named 15th Street Theatre and then Peoples Theatre – burned 1892
DENVER, CO – Mills Edsonia
DENVER, CO – Municipal Auditorium – 1908 –
being renovated as home to Opera Colorado
DENVER, CO – Oasis Theater
DENVER, CO – Oriental Theater – Atmospheric
style – being renovated
DENVER, CO – Pantages Theater
DENVER, CO – Paramount Theater
DENVER, CO – Paris Theater
DENVER, CO – Princess Theater
DENVER, CO -
Red Rocks Theatre
DENVER, CO – Rialto Theater
DENVER, CO – RKO Orpheum Theater
DENVER, CO – St. James Theater
DENVER, CO – 16th Street Theatre – 1881 –
demolished 1885
DENVER, CO – State Theater
DENVER, CO – Strand Theater – 1921
DENVER, CO -
Tabor Grand Opera House
- 1881 – 1500 seats – 1921 became film house – 1930 became Tabor Theatre -
demolished 1964 – replaced by Federal Reserve Bank
DENVER, CO – Victory Theater
DERBY, CT -
Sterling Opera
House – built 1889
DERBY LINE, VT -
Haskell Opera House
*DES MOINES, IA -
Civic Center of Greater Des Moines -
*DESMOINES, IA -
Desmoines Playhouse
DES PLAINS, IL – Des Plains 2 – being restored
2005
DETROIT, MI – Adams Theatre – 1917
DETROIT, MI – Annex Theater – Atmospheric
style – closed & demolished
DETROIT, MI -
Baldwin Theatre – 415 S. Lafayette
Avenue, Royal Oak – featuring THE BLUE ROOM CABARET
DETROIT, MI -
Book-Cadillac
Hotel – historic hotel – many stars stayed here – closed 1984 – to be
overhauled *
DETROIT, MI -
Detroit’s Historic
Theatre District – Madison 1917; Adams 1917; Grand Circus 1922; State 1925;
Michigan 1926; Fox 1928; United Artists 1928
DETROIT, MI – Duplex Theater – 1915-1922 –
3075 E. Grand Blvd, down street from Fisher – demolished
DETROIT, MI -
Fisher
Theatre – 1928 – 2975 seats – 2 -750 seat theatres – Pleasures and Palaces
1965
*DETROIT, MI -
Fox Theatre – 1928 – 6000 seats – could hold a 65 piece orchestra – one of
the largest movie palaces in the world
*DETROIT, MI -
Gem Theatre – built 1928 – 200 seats,
1932 changed to Rivoli Theatre; 1935 changed to Drury Lane Cinema; 1936 changed
to The Cinema; 1960 to the Vanguard Playhouse; 1967 renamed the Gem Theatre -
1978 closed
DETROIT, MI – Grand Circus Theatre – 1922
DETROIT, MI – Grand Opera Association – 1962
DETROIT, MI – Madison Theatre – 1917
DETROIT, MI -
Masonic Temple
DETROIT, MI – MAXS Theatre – abandoned
DETROIT, MI – MGM Grand – 2007
DETROIT, MI – Orchestra Hall – built 1919 -
such names as Enrico Caruso, Duke Ellington have appeared here – 60 million
renovation – new home of the Detroit Symphony, also site of new Detroit High
School for the Fine, Performing and Communication Arts and Detroit Public
Television – symphony left Orchestra Hall in 1939
DETROIT, MI – Michigan Theatre – 1926
DETROIT, MI – Park Theatre – early 1890s house
playing burlesque
DETROIT, MI -
Plowshares Theatre – a five-alarm fire
in a Detroit that destroyed the Piquette building June 20/05 where Plowshares
Theatre Company had stored 15 years’ worth of materials that could be recycled
for productions by the state’s only African-American Equity company DETROIT, MI
– Redford Theater – Atmospheric style
DETROIT, MI – Renaissance Center 4 – to reopen
2005
DETROIT, MI – Riviera Theater – Atmospheric
style – closed & demolished
DETROIT, MI – RKO Downtown – Atmospheric style
– closed & demolished
DETROIT, MI -
State Theatre – 1925
DETROIT, MI – United Artists Theatre – 1928
DETROIT, MI – Wilso Theatre – 1928
DORCHESTER, MA – M. Harriet McCormack Center
for the Arts (Strand Theatre) – built 1918
DOVER PLAINS, NY – Dover Theater
DOWNER’S GROVE, IL -
Tivoli Theatre – 1928
DULUTH, MN -
Orpheum Theatre
DUNCAN, AZ – Duncan Theatre
DURANGO, CO – Hansen Opera House – in Leland
Hotel – now Elks Club
DURANGO, CO – Kiva Theater
DURANGO, CO – Redmen Opera House – before 1908
– 700 seats – now restaurant and offices
DURANGO, CO – Strater Hotel Opera House – 1888
– now Henry’s Restaurant
E EARLVILLE, NY -
Earlville Opera House
- built 1892
*EAST HADDAM, CT -
Goodspeed Opera House – 1876 – closed in
1920 – militia base in World War I, to general store, to storage depot restored
in 1959 and reopened 1963 – winner of two Tony Awards for Regional Theatre -
1980 and 1995 – Heartbeats 1993; Swinging on a Star 1995; Lucky in the Rain 1997
- Middletown is positioning Goodspeed as the cultural centerpiece of a 10-year
plan to rejuvenate its downtown. It will raise $40 million and build a theater
with 700 seats and a 40-by-80-foot stage – new theater will replace Middletown’s
Capitol Theater on Main Street
EASTHAMPTON, MA – Majestic Theater – closed
1986 – now furniture makers
EASTLAND, TX – Airdome Theater
EASTLAND, TX – Lyric Theater – became New
Lyric
EASTLAND, TX – Majestic Theater – opened as
Connollee 1920, later Art Deco – 108 N. Lamar St – 1947 – restored 1987
EASTLAND, TX – Princess Theater – 1918
*EAST LANSING, MI -
Wharton Center for Performing
Arts -
EASTON, MD -
Avalon Theatre – built 1921
EASTON, PA – Boyd Theater – Atmospheric style
– closed & demolished
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – Izod Center
EATON, CO – Palace Opera House – 1906 – 350
seats – demolished mid 1940s
EFFINGHAM, IL – heart Theatre – abandoned
ELECTRA, TX -
Grand Theater – 1921
ELGIN, IL – Hemmens Cultural Center – 150
Dexter Ct
ELKHART, IN -
Elco Performing Arts Centre
ELMIRA, NY -
Clemens Center for the Performing Arts
- built 1925
ELMIRA, NY -
Lyceum Theatre
ELMSFORD, NY -
Westchester Broadway Theatre – 1
Broadway Plaza – Dinner theatre, longest running year-round theatre in the state
of NY
EL PASO, TX – Interstate Plaza Theatre
EL PASO, TX – Plaza Theater – Atmospheric
style
ENCITAS, CA -
Moxie Theatre – La Jolla Playhouse
announced that the MOXIE Theatre has been chosen for the 2009-10 LJP resident
theatre company program, giving space to a troupe without a permanent home -
Tony Award-winning not-for-profit La Jolla Playhouse was founded in 1947 by
Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire and Mel Ferrer. Playhouse productions have moved
to Broadway, including Big River, The Who’s Tommy, How to Succeed in Business
Without Really Trying, A Walk in the Woods, Dracula, Billy Crystal’s 700
Sundays, the Pulitzer Prize-winning I Am My Own Wife, Jersey Boys, The
Farnsworth Invention, Cry-Baby and 33 Variations
ERIE, CO – Erie Opera House – before 1900 –
450 seats – currently residences
*ERIE, PA -
Warner Theater – 1931
(2500 seats)
EUREKA, CA -
Loews State Theatre
EUREKA, NV -
Eureka Opera
House
EVANSTON, IL – Next Theatre Company – 927
Noyes St Ste 108
EVANSTON, IL -
Northwestern University – American
Music Theatre Project (AMTP)-a new initiative dedicated to “developing and
producing new musicals in cooperation with some of music theatre’s top writers,
composers and directors”
EVANSVILLE, IN -
Mesker Memorial Amphitheatre
*EVERETT, WA -
Everett Theatre – 1901
EXETER, NH – Toka Theatre – 1915 – 500 seats
EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE INC – winner of Regional
Theatre Tony Award 1948
FAIRMONT, IN -
Fairmont Theatre
FAIRMONT, MN -
Fairmont Opera House
FALMOUTH, MA – University Players – 1928 until
1932
FARGO, ND -
DelChar Theater
FARIBAULT, MN – Paradise Theater – Atmospheric
style – closed
FIRE ISLAND, NY – The Pavilion – built in the Pines 1950s – hub of gay social scene – Tom Ford, Calvin Klein, Madonna – burned down Nov 2011
FISH CREEK, WI -
Peninsula Players – America’s
oldest professional resident summer theatre – founded 1935
FIVE POINTS (El Monte), CA – Tumbleweed
Theater – Atmospheric style – closed & demolished
FILLMORE, CA -
Fillmore Towne Theatre – renamed
Barnes Theatre 1916-1926 and Stearns Theatre 1926-1931
FLATBUSH, NY – RKO Flatbush
FLINT, MI -
Bower Theatre
FLINT, MI – Capitol Theater – Atmospheric
style – closed
FLORENCE, MO – Houston Opera House – before
1908 – 750 seats – demolished
FLORISSANT, MO – Florissant Opera House –
before 1897
FLUSHING, NY – Keith’s Theatre
FOREST CITY, PA – Family Theater – Main St
FOREST PARK, IL – Circle Theatre of Forest
Park – 7300 Madison St
FORKS, WA – Olympic Theatre – abandoned
*FORSYTH, MT -
Roxy Theatre
FORT CLARK, TX -
Post Theatre
FORT COLLINS, CO -
Colorado State University
Theatre
FORT COLLINS, CO – Fort Collins Opera House –
1881 – now Opera Galleria
FORT COLLINS, CO – Orpheum Theater
FORT HOOD, TX -
Main Theatre
FORT KNOX, KY -
Fort Knox Theatre
*FORT LAUDERDALE, FL -
Broward Center for the
Performing Arts -
*FORT LAUDERDALE, FL -
Parker Playhouse – 707
NE 8th Street – built mid 1960s
FORT PIERCE, FL -
Sunrise Theatre – built
1923
FORT SILL, OK -
Fort Sill Theatre
*FORT SMITH, AZ –
New Theatre – 1911- 1998 being
restored
*FORT SMITH, AR -
Fort Smith Little Theatre
*FORT SMITH, AR -
New Theater
FORT WAYNE, IN -
Embassy Centre
FORT WAYNE, IN -
Emboyd Theatre (The
Embassy Centre) – built 1928
FORT WAYNE, IN – Majestic Theater
FORT WAYNE, IN -
Open Air Theater
FORT WORTH, TX -
Bass Performance Hall
FORT WORTH, TX – Bowie Theatre
FORT WORTH, TX – Silver Palace – see Standard
Theatre
FORT WORTH, TX – Standard Theatre – known also
as the Silver Palace – had restaurant, lunch counter, beer garden and two bars
FORT WORTH, TX – Worth Theater – Atmospheric
style – closed & demolished
FRAMINGTON, MA – Cinema – 1951-1994
FRAMINGTON, MA – Shoppers World – 1951 – 1500
seats (The Cinema)
FRANKENMUTH, MI -
Fischer Opera Haus
FRANKFORT, KY – Capitol Theater
FRANKLIN, IN – Artcraft Theatre – opened 1922 – 57 North Main St. – original Seating 832, present 573 –
owned by Trueman T. Rembusch dba SYNDICATE THEATRES 1934-1999,closed as 1st Run House May 1999, S & S Schofield, 1999-2004, now owned by Franklin Heritage, Inc. since 2004 – operating, Classic Movies on a Classic Screen – Live stage capability
*FREDONIA, NY -
Fredonia Opera House – 1891
FRESH MEADOW, NY – Meadows Theater – 1948 to
present – twinned 1970s – then became 7 screens
FRESNO, CA -
Pantages
Theatre – built 1929
FRESNO, CA – Sequoia Theater – Atmospheric
style – closed & demolished
G GALESBURG, IL -
Orpheum Theatre – built 1916
*GALVESTON ISLAND, TX -
Grand 1894 Opera House
GALVESTON, TX – Adelphi Theatre – Annie Hindle
1868
GALVESTON, TX – Grand Opera House – 1894
GARY, IN – Palace Theater – Atmospheric style
– closed
GASDEN, AL -
American Legion Amphitheatre
GENESEE, NY – Riviera Theatre – April 1914 – abandoned
GEORGETOWN, MO – Cushman Opera House – 1875
GEORGETOWN, MO – McClellan Opera House – 1876
– 1200 seats – opened as McClellan Hall in 1868 – burned 1892
GEORGETOWN, MO – Spruance Opera House – 1892 –
originally skating rink – 500 seats – torn down 1940s
GHENT, NY -
Ghent Playhouse – home to Columbia
Civic Players, formed 1974 – building built as Town Hall in 1890s, and taken
over by Columbia Civic Players in 1988
GLASGOW, KY – Plaza Theater – Atmospheric
style
GLENDALE, CA – Alex Theatre
GLENS FALLS, NY – Charles R. Wood Theatre -
new theatre for Adirondack Theater Festival – now in their 10th season, and now
in their permanent home, a former old Woolworth’s building converted into the
theatre
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, CO – Durand Hall – 1891 –
1905 became Glenwood Springs Opera House – 1919 Odeon Theatre and 1927 Odeon
Dance Hall – 1948 Fraternal Order of Eagles
*GLOVERSVILLE, NY -
Glove Theatre – built early 1900s
(800 seats) – theatre closed in 1970s – neglected – restoration began in 1995
GOLDEN, CO – Golden Opera House – 1879 – 600
seats – now Ace-Hi Tavern
GOLDFIELD, CO – Clark Opera House – 1900 –
demolished
*GOWANDA, NY -
Hollywood Theatre -
after a fire in 1924, the Hollywood was built to replace the Opera House
GRANBURY, TX -
Granbury Opera House – 1886 – 303 seats – opened as Kerr Opera House on 2nd
floor of the orginal building
GRAND ISLAND, NE – Capitol Theater –
Atmospheric style – closed & demolished
GRAND ISLE, NE – Grand Theatre
GRAND JUNCTION, CO – Mandel Opera House – 1883
– Mesa Opera Rink 1885 – became Majestic Theatre in 1909 – currently Mesa
Theatre Club GRAND JUNCTION, CO – Park Opera House – 1892 – 740 seats –
abandoned
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Smith’s Opera House – early
1890s house playing burlesque
GRAND RAPIDS, MS – Theatre – Judy Garland born
here
GRANTS, NM – Lux Theatre
GREAT BARRINGTON, MA -
Cheesecake Charlie’s Cabaret -
- 271 Main Street
GREAT FALLS, MT – Pantages Theatre – 6011 Central Ave West – opened 1914 as vaudeville house – 1200 seats – renamed Rainbow Theatre 1924 – closed in 1935 but reopened until finally closed in 1964
GREAT PLAINS, ND –
Roxy Theater
GREELEY, CO – Hunter Opera House/Greeley Opera
House – 1886 – 800 seats – razed 1964
GREELEY, CO – Jackson Opera House – 1885 – now
parking lot
GREEN BAY, WI – Meyer Theater – Atmospheric
style
*GREEN BAY, WI -
Weidner Center for Performing Arts -
opened 1993
GREENFIELD, MA – Garden Theater – now 7
screens
GREENSBORO, NC – Pyrle Theatre – see Triad
Stage
GREENSBORO, NC -
Triad Stage – 232 Elm St – 279 seats -
as tribute will become Pyrle Theatre
GREENVILLE, SC – Camelot 7 – reopening 2005
GREENWICH, CT – Pickwick Theater – Atmospheric
style – closed
GRINNELL, IA – Grinnell College/Fred M.
Roberts Theatre – 1961
GROVER, CO – Grover Opera House – 1914 – now
Grover Regional Library
GUNNISON, CO – built as Globe Theatre, became
Academy of Music – 1882 – 400 seats – closed 1900
GUNNISON, CO – Smith Opera House – 1883 –
closed 1885-86
H HADLEY, MA – AMC Hampshire
Mall 6
HADLEY, MA – AMC Mountain Farms 4
HAGERSTOWN, MD – Henry’s Theater – Atmospheric
style – closed
HAMPSHIRE, MA – Berkoff Performing Arts Centre
- Alton College – 100 seat studio theatre, dance studio
HAMPTON, NH – Act One Summer Theatre – cabaret
venue
HANOVER, MD – Muvico Egyptian Theater 24
HANOVER, NH – Hopkins Art Centre of Dartmouth
College – 1962
HANOVER, PA – Hanover Theatre – abandoned
HART, MI – Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival –
started 1976 – 2nd week in August
HARTFORD, CT – Circus – fire 1944 – 168 deaths
HARTFORD, CT – Connecticut Opera – shut down
after 67 years
*HARTFORD, CT-
Hartford Stage Company – (489 seat
John W. Huntington Theatre) founded 1964 – winner of Regional Theatre Tony Award
1989 – 33-year-old landmark building, will undergo a series of building
improvements, which will focus on production capabilities and the public’s
experience – construction will break ground in June/10 for a mid-September
completion, with the second phase to begin in 2010 – aiming to complete project
by fall of 2013, for the company’s 50th anniversary season
HARTFORD, CT – Hartt College of Music – 1942
HARTFORD, CT – Millard Auditorium of Fuller
Music Center – inactive since 1969
HARTWELL, GA – Judy Theatre
HEARNE, TX – Chatmas Theatre
HEARNE, TX – Queen Theatre
HELENDALE, CA -
Exotic World Burlesque Museum
HELLERTOWN, PA – The Movies Theatre – abandoned
HEMET, CA -
Ramona Bowl Amphitheatre
HENDERSON, TX – Palace Theatre
*HERSHEY, PA -
Hershey Theatre – built 1929-1933
HICKORY, NC – Centre Theater
HIGHLAND, IN -
Town Theatre
HIGHLAND PARK, IL -
Ravinia Theatre
HOBOKEN, NJ – Hudson Street Theatre – closed
2005
HOBOKEN, NJ – Maxwell’s – built atop Maxwell House coffee factory – holds 200 patrons – opened 1978 as venue for small bands – Nirvana, R.E.M., Feelies – closing July 31/13;
HOLLYWOOD, CA – see also LOS ANGELES
HOLLYWOOD, CA – Ambassador Hotel (Cocoanut
Grove) – opened 1922 – Sophie Tucker – nightclub ran well into 1960s
HOLLYWOOD, CA – Cafe Trocadero – on Sunset
Strip – one of the most successful nightclubs
HOLLYWOOD, CA – CBS Radio Playhouse – 1940 -
see Huntington Hartford
HOLLYWOOD, CA – Celebration Theatre – venue
known as a stage for gay and lesbian voices
HOLLYWOOD, CA – Cinerama Dome – 1963 to
present – 6360 West Sunset Blvd – restored & reopened 2002 – one of only 3
venues in world for 3 strip Cinerama
HOLLYWOOD, CA – Ciro’s – top nightclub for
more than two decades – Sammy Davis Jr – closed 1965
HOLLYWOOD, CA – Egyptian Theatre – 1922 – 1800
seats
*HOLLYWOOD, CA -
El Capitan Theatre
- opened in 1926 as “Hollywood’s First Home of Spoken Drama,” with Charlot’s
Review (Jack Buchanan,Gertrude Lawrence,Beatrice Lillie) – in 1942 it was
changed to Hollywood Paramount – 1989 the Walt Disney Company restored the
theatre to its former grandeur and it reopened in 1991
HOLLYWOOD, CA -
El Portal Forum Theater – 5629
Lankershim Blvd – restored
HOLLYWOOD, CA -
–
Feinstein’s at the CineGrill FEINSTEIN’S at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel -
7000 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood – cabaret venue
HOLLYWOOD, CA – Fountain Theatre – 78 seat
intimate theatre – premieres of Miller, Fugard’s Exits and Entrances 2004, etc.
HOLLYWOOD, CA (WEST) – Gardenia Restaurant and
Lounge – has been a fixture on the L.A. nightclub scene for 20 years. “(It’s) a
legendary place in L.A.” A number of cabaret singers got their start there,
including the great Andrea Marcovicci. The room isn’t big, but every seat is
good
HOLLYWOOD, CA – Garden of Eden – Jose Sarria –
drag revues
*HOLLYWOOD, CA – Grauman’s Chinese Theatre -
built 1927 – now Mann’s Chinese Theatret – 2300 seats – may be the most famous
movie house in the world – forecourt holds celebrities hand and foot prints in
cement
HOLLYWOOD, CA – Grauman’s Egyptian Theater
HOLLYWOOD, CA – Grauman’s Million Dollar
Theater – 1918-present – 307 S Broadway – closed
HOLLYWOOD, CA – Hawaii Theater – Atmospheric
style – closed
HOLLYWOOD, CA -
Hollywood Bowl – Liberace
HOLLYWOOD, CA – Hollywood Canteen – infamous
canteen of the war years, featured celebrities like Bette Davis, Marlene
Dietrich, Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield, Rosemary Clooney, Mel Torme
HOLLYWOOD, CA – Hollywood Pantages – 1930 -
Hollywood and Vine – first Deco theatre
HOLLYWOOD, CA – Hollywood Paramount – see El
Capitan
HOLLYWOOD, CA – Hollywood Theater – 1926 – now
Pacific 1-2-3
HOLLYWOOD, CA – 1954, Mr. Hartford converted
the Vine Street Theatre – 1615 N Vine – into the
Huntington Hartford
Theater — thus creating the only legit stage in Hollywood at the time. Helen
Hayes starred in his theatre’s gala first production, James Barrie’s What Every
Woman Knows – building was remodeled by Helen Conway at a cost of $750,000 – In
1964, Hartford sold the theatre to James Doolittle (owner of the Greek Theater
in the Hollywood Hills) for $850,000 – theatre went through many transitions -
1926 Vine; 1927 Wilkes Vine; 1937 Studio; 1940 CBS Radio Playhouse; 1954
Huntington Hartford; 1985 James Doolittle; and currently 1999 Ricardo Montalban
Theatre
HOLLYWOOD, CA – James Doolittle Theatre – see
Huntington Hartford
HOLLYWOOD, CA – John Anson Ford Amphitheater -
2580 Cahuenga Boulevard East – cabaret venue
HOLLYWOOD, CA -
Knitting Factory – started 2000 -
closing end of October 2009
HOLLYWOOD, CA – Mann’s Chinese Theatre – see
Grauman’s
HOLLYWOOD, CA – Mocambo – 100,000.00 spent on
the interior when it opened – the “elite of the elite” nightclubs
HOLLYWOOD, CA -
Ricardo Montalban
Theatre – built 1926 as Vine Theatre – see also Wilkes Vine (1927), Studio
(1937), CBS Radio Playhouse (1940), Huntington Hartford (1954), James Doolittle
(1985)
HOLLYWOOD, CA – Shrine Auditorium – 6,300
seats – known as the site of the Academy Awards until the Kodak Theatre opened
2002
HOLLYWOOD, CA – Studio Theatre – 1937 – see
Huntington Hartford
HOLLYWOOD, CA – Studio One – Frances Faye 1977
HOLLYWOOD, CA – Studio One Backlot – Charles
Pierce 1981
HOLLYWOOD, CA -
Thelma Todd’s Sidewalk
Cafe – Dec 16, 1935 – she was murdered not long after the nightclub opened
HOLLYWOOD, CA – Tiffany Theatre – The Gift
2000
HOLLYWOOD, CA – Vine Street Theatre – 1615 N
Vine – 1926 – see Huntington Hartford Theatre
HOLLYWOOD, CA – Warner Brothers Hollywood
Theater
HOLLYWOOD, CA – Wilkes Vine – see Huntington
Hartford
HOLTS, MO – Summit Plaza – closed 2005
*HONOLULU, HI -
Hawaii Theatre – built 1922
*HONOLULU, HI – Beaux Arts Theatre – original
vaudeville house – abandoned for the last 10 years, now undergoing a 21 million
dollar restoration, from 1,700 seats to 1,400 – had become a movie palace after
World War II
HONOLULU, HI -Queen Theatre – abandoned
HONOLULU, HI -
Waikiki Theatre 3 -
demolished 2005
HOPKINSVILLE, KY – Alhambra Theater –
Atmospheric style
HOQUIAM, WA – 7th Street Theater – Atmospheric
style
HORSE CAVE, KY -
Horse Cave Theatre – changed to
Kentucky Repertory Theatre – founded 1976 – renovated 1977 – 346 seats
HORSE CAVE, KY -
Kentucky Repertory Theatre – Horse
Cave Theatyre – changed to Kentucky Repertory Theatre – founded 1976 – renovated
1977 – 346 seats
HOUGHTON LAKE, MI -
Pines Theatre
HOUSTON, TX – Alabama Theatre
*HOUSTON, TX -
Alley Theatre – 1947 – was a rented
dance studio with 87 seats, as Alley Theatre – moved 1949 to fan manufacturing
plant converted into arena theatre – moved to permanent home at 615 Texas
Avenue, restored, in 1968 – 2 theatres – Large Stage(800) and Arena Stage (300)-
building also houses Alley Merry-Go-Round – theatre school for young people -
winner of Regional Theatre Tony Award 1996 – Alley Theatre Centre for Theatre
Production added – over 75,000 square feet for scenery,props and costume
storage, rehearsal space, script and archive rooms, offices and boardroom 2002;
theatre also adding 125 seat cabaret theatre, cafe and performing arts bookstore
by 2005 – Jekyll and Hyde 1990; Civil War 1998
HOUSTON, TX – Almeda Theatre
HOUSTON, TX – Brown Theatre – see Wortham
Theater Center
HOUSTON, TX – Cullen Theatre
HOUSTON, TX -
Hobby Center for the
Performing Arts – two theatres, 2650 seat Fayez Sarofim Hall and the 500
seat Selim K. Zika Hall
HOUSTON, TX – Houston Grand Opera – 1955
*HOUSTON, TX -
John and Jean Yeager Theatre – Stages
Repertory Theatre – Pavilion opening October 5, 2001 (170 seats at Houston
Center for the Arts) – 3201 Allen Parkway at Waugh Drive HOUSTON, TX – Majestic
Theatre – 1923 – atmospheric – closed & demolished
HOUSTON, TX – Minute Maid Park – formerly
Enron before collapse
HOUSTON, TX -
Ovations – 2536 Times Boulevard, Suite B, Houston – cabaret venue
*HOUSTON, TX –
Theatre Under the Stars – Arena Theatre, Wortham Center
HOUSTON, TX – Wortham Theatre Centre – Brown
Theatre 2346 seats – home of Houston Grand Opera
HUDSON, NY – Hudson River Theater – 521 Warren
Street in Hudson, NY – 100-seat theater on the second floor – renovated 1890′s
department store – drag shows, opera
HUNTINGTON, NY – Inter-Media Art Center –
originally built 1923 as vaudeville/movie house – converted 1983 – 500 seats
HUNTINGTON, WV – Camelot Theatre – formerly
Palace
HUNTINGTON, WV – Cinema – formerly Orpheum
HUNTINGTON, WV – Huntington Theatre
HUNTINGTON, WV – Keith Albee Theatre – 1928 –
925 Fourth Avenue – 3,000 seats – – Atmospheric style – closed Jan 23, 1937 due
to flooding – reopened
HUNTINGTON, WV – Margaret Theatre – 8th Avenue
& 20th
HUNTINGTON, WV – Orpheum Theatre – see Cinema
- closed Jan 23, 1937 due to flooding
HUNTINGTON, WV – Palace Theatre – closed Jan
23, 1937 due to flooding
HUNTINGTON, WV – Rialto Theatre – closed Jan
23, 1937 due to flooding
HUNTINGTON, WV – Roxy Theatre – closed Jan 23,
1937 due to flooding
HUNTINGTON, WV – State Theatre – closed Jan
23, 1937 due to flooding
HUNTINGTON PARK, CA – Warner Brothers Theater
HUNTSVILLE, AL – Martin Theatre
HYANNIS, MA – HMS Theatricals – 337 Main
Street Hyannis – cabaret venue
HYDE PARK, MA -
Riverside Theatre Works – 45
Fairmount Ave – has transformed their theatre into what is probably the best
cabaret space in New England
IDAHO FALLS, CO – Cheerio Club – Ray Bourbon
IDAHO SPRINGS, CO – Idaho Springs Opera House
– 1886 – now elementary school – Miner Street
IDAHO SPRINGS, CO – Idaho Springs Opera House
– 1912 – became movie theatre – then antique mall – now shops and offices
INDEPENDENCE, KS – Independence Community
College – site of Annual William Inge Theatre Festival
INDIANAPOLIS, IN -
B. Tarkington Civic Theatre
INDIANAPOLIS, IN -
Embassy Theatre
INDIANAPOLIS, IN -
Murat Temple
INDIANAPOLIS, IN – Parathea Theatre
INDIANAPOLIS, IN -
Walker Theatre
INGLEWOOD, CA – Academy Theater
IOWA CITY, IA –
University of Iowa Theatre
– 1936
ITHACA, NY -
City Auditorium
JACKSON, MI -
Little Theatre
*JACKSON, MI -
Michigan Theatre – 1930 – built for
vaudeville and movies – closed 1978 – deteriorated
JACKSON, WY -
Jackson Hole Playhouse
*JACKSONVILLE, FL -
Florida Theatre – opened 1927
JACKSONVILLE, FL -
San Marco Theatre
JACKSONVILLE, FL – UA Orange Park –
Atmospheric style – closed & demolished
JACKSONVILLE, FL – UA Regency – Atmospheric
style – closed & demolished
*JACOB’S PILLOW, MA -
Jacob’s Pillow – Mass – began
in 1790 as a farm – 1930 Ted Shawn bought as a retreat, with wife Ruth St.
Denis, and formed the Denishawn Company – ran as a school 1933-1939
JAMESTOWN, NY – Reg Lenna Civic Center –
Atmospheric style
JERSEY CITY, NJ – Grace Church Van Vorst, 39
Erie Street – new small theatre venue
*JERSEY CITY, NJ -
Loews Jersey Theatre – 1929
JERSEY CITY, NJ – Stanley Theater –
Atmospheric style – closed
JEWEL BOX – REVUE – began 1939 in this bar
before moving to NYC
JOHNSTOWN, CO -
CANDLELIGHT DINNER PLAYHOUSE -
Johnstown, Colorado
JOLIET, IL -
Rialto Square Theatre
- built 1926 – 102 N Chicago
*JONES BEACH, NY -
Jones Beach Theatre -
JULESBURGH, CO – Julesburg Opera House – 1908
– became Masonic Lodge 1914
JULESBURGH, CO – Lowe Opera House – originally
Lowe’s Livery Stables 1917 – destroyed by fire 1972
K *KALAMAZOO, MI -
State Theatre – 1927 –
atmospheric – 1569 seats
KANSAS CITY, KS – Cameo Theatre
KANSAS CITY, KS – Granada Theater –
Atmospheric style – closed – being restored
KANSAS CITY, MO – AMC Metro Plaza 4
KANSAS CITY, MO – AMC Ward Parkway 2
KANSAS CITY, MO -
Convention Hall
KANSAS CITY, MO – Country Club Plaza
KANSAS CITY, MO – Coterie Theatre – located in
downtown shopping centre – Crown Center
*KANSAS CITY, MO -
Folly Theatre
*KANSAS CITY, MO – Kansas City Repertory
Theatre – originally Missouri Repertory Theatre – as of 2004/05 season will be
41st – see also Missouri Repertory Theatre
KANSAS CITY, MO – Loew’s Midland Theatre –
1927
*KANSAS CITY, MO -
Lyric Theatre – built in 1926 as Masonic
Shrine with 3,000 seats – 1942 sold to Red Cross as blood collection center -
after the war it was named the Playhouse, then Victoria and reopened in 1959 as
The Capri a 700 seat movie house, which eventually held “Cinerama” – in 1970 it
became the home of the Lyric Opera Company (1238 seats)
KANSAS CITY, MO – Metro Plaza – 1967 – first
four screen theater
KANSAS CITY, MO – Missouri Repertory Theatre -
changed to Kansas City Repertory Theatre
KANSAS CITY, MO -
Municipal Auditorium
KANSAS CITY, MO – Plaza Theater – 1928-1999 –
4704 Wyandotte St – 1980s 2 screens – now hardware
KANSAS CITY, MO -
Starlight Theatre
KANSAS CITY, MO – Uptown Theater – Atmospheric
style
KANSAS CITY, MO -
Willis Wood Theatre
KENNEBUNKPORT, ME -
Arundel Opera Theatre
KENOSHA, WI – Kenosha Theater – Atmospheric
style – being restored
KEY WEST, FL -
Key West
Playwrights Company – new company 2003 – using San Carlos Institute as venue
KEY WEST, FL – Key West Theatre Festival –
folded 2003
KEY WEST, FL – Red Barn Theatre
KEY WEST, FL -
Strand Theatre
KEY WEST, FL – Waterfront Playhouse
KILGORE, TX – Crim Theatre
KINGSTON, NY – Ind Mall 18 – replacing older
plex in mall – 2005
KNOXVILLE, TN -
Bijou Theatre – built 1908
KREMMLING, CO -
Ramona Theatre
LACONIA, NH -
Colonial Theatre
LAFAYETTE, IN -
Eliott Hall of Music
LAFAYETTE, CO – Bauer Opera House – 1892 –
burned down 1900
LAFAYETTE, CO – Lafayette Opera House/Union
Hall – after 1900 – 500 seats – demolished
LAKE WALES, FL -
Passion Play Amphitheatre
LAKE CITY, FL – Gateway Theatre
LAMAR, CO – Lamar Opera House – 1899 – 700
seats – demolished 1962
LANCASTER, NY -
Lancaster Opera House
LANGDON, ND – RoxyTheater – Main Street
LANSING, MI – Michigan Theater – Atmospheric
style – closed
*LAS VEGAS, NV -
Las Vegas Shows
LAS VEGAS, NV –
AladdinTheatre for the Performing Arts – Casino became Planet Hollywood
LAS VEGAS, NV –
Bally’s Casino – Jubilee
Theatre – 3645 Las Vegas Blvd S
LAS VEGAS, NV -
Bellagio – 3600 Las Vegas Blvd S
- Cirque du Soleil’s O – formerly was Dunes
LAS VEGAS, NV –
Bourbon Street – Big
Easy Showroom
LAS VEGAS, NV –
Caesar’s Palace – see
Colisseum
LAS VEGAS, NV – Century Santa Fe – opening
2005 – replacing older cinema
LAS VEGAS, NV –
Circus Circus – Main Arena
LAS VEGAS, NV – Colisseum – see also Caesar’s
Palace – comfortable, attractive 4,000 seats, $95 million to build the theater
especially for Celine Dion’s three-year engagement – Celine just signed for
another 3 year contract as of March 2011
LAS VEGAS, NV – Cosmopolitan Hotel – opened December 2010
LAS VEGAS, NV – Desert Inn – became Wynn Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS, NV -
Dunes Hotel – became Bellagio
LAS VEGAS, NV – Echelon Place Resort – see
Stardust
LAS VEGAS, NV – El Rancho Vegas – opened 1941
LAS VEGAS, NV –
Excalibur – King Arthur’s
Arena/Showroom – Thunder From Down Under;
LAS VEGAS, NV -
Flamingo – Showroom -
opened 1946 on 33 acres – casino and nightclub – cost 6 million – Jimmy Durante;
Rosemarie
LAS VEGAS, NV –
Golden Nugget – Theatre Ballroom
LAS VEGAS, NV –
Harrah’s Main Showroom -
3475 Las Vegas Blvd – built 1980 – name changed to Harrah’s Las Vegas in 1992 -
demolished 2004
LAS VEGAS, NV – Hooters – Men of X;
LAS VEGAS, NV –
Hotel San Remo – Parisian Cabaret
LAS VEGAS, NV –
Howard Johnson – Showroom
LAS VEGAS, NV –
Imperial Palace –
Imperial Theatre
LAS VEGAS, NV –Jackie
Gaughan’s Plaza – Plaza Showroom
LAS VEGAS, NV – Las Vegas Hilton Hotel-Casino
- Barry Manilow – 24 weeks through 2005/06 – premieres Feb 24, 2005
LAS VEGAS, NV – Liberace Museum – 1775 E Tropicana Ave – opened 1979 – clses Oct 17/10 after 31 years in operation
LAS VEGAS, NV –
Luxor Casino – 3900 Las
Vegas Blvd S – Casino Theatre, Pharoah’s Theatre – 1550 seats after current
construction 2005 – Hairspray – starts November 2005
LAS VEGAS, NV –
Mandalay Bay Theatre –
Events Center – Mamma Mia 2003; Lion King Apr 20/09;
LAS VEGAS, NV –
MGM Grand – La Femme
Theatre – Ka;
LAS VEGAS, NV –
Mirage Casino – housing Siegfried and
Roy for many years – CityCenter hotel/casino in Las Vegas open in 2009 as part
of the MGM Mirage will feature a permanent Cirque du Soleil show inspired by the
life and works of Elvis Presley; 2,000-seat theatre where Cirque is expected to
do for The King what they have just done for The Beatles with their hit show,
LOVE, which opened at the Mirage in June/06
LAS VEGAS, NV -
Moulin Rouge – opened 1954 and only lasted 6 months – Gregory and Maurice
Hynes
LAS VEGAS, NV -
New Frontier – Will Mastin Trio
LAS VEGAS, NV -
New York,New York
– Zumanity Theatre – 3790 Las Vegas Blvd S – 1295 seat theatre housing
Cirque du Soleil
LAS VEGAS, NV –
Orleans – Ba-Da-Bing Room, Brendan’s
Irish Pub
LAS VEGAS, NV – O’Shea’s Casino Theatre – see
Flamingo
LAS VEGAS, NV – Paris Las Vegas Hotel – We
Will Rock You opens Sept/04
LAS VEGAS, NV – Planet Hollywood Hotel &
Casino – new 28M theatre – Stomp Out Loud 2007; – formerly was Aladdin
LAS VEGAS, NV –
Rio -
see Harrahs – Calypso Room, Club Rio, Samba Theatre – Chippendales;
LAS VEGAS, NV –
Riviera – Crazy Girl Showroom, La
Cage Theatre – Liberace (1955);
LAS VEGAS, NV -
Sahara – Showroom – Saturday Night
Fever – famed hotel to close May 16/11 after 59 years – opened 1952 – one of the oldest landmarks on the strip – venue for the likes of Rat Pack, Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli, Johnny Carson and Jerry Lewis;
LAS VEGAS, NV -
Sands Hotel – nightclub which
featured talents like Danny Thomas, Lena Horne, in 1960 for 6 weeks the rat pack
appeared while filming Oceans 11 – Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.,
Joey Bishop, Don Rickles, Maguire Sisters – became Venetian
LAS VEGAS, NV – Smith Center for the
Performing Arts – opening March 10/12 – home to the Las Vegas Philharmonic and Nevada Ballet Theater.
Plans are to stage a variety of national and international touring productions -
venue will house a main theater, Reynolds Hall, Boman Pavillion of 2,050 seats, a 300-seat cabaret jazz theater for
more intimate productions and a 250-seat Troesh studio theater suitable for rehearsals
and community theater
LAS VEGAS, NV –
Splash Theatre
LAS VEGAS, NV –
Stardust – Wayne Newton Theatre -
opened July, 1958 as Vegas’ 1st mass-market casino – razed March 2007 – 48 year
old – used in 1995 film Casino – to make way for Echelon Place Resort to open
2010
LAS VEGAS, NV –
Stratosphere – Theatre of the Stars
LAS VEGAS, NV –
Suncoast – Suncoast Showroom
LAS VEGAS, NV – Town Square – Shear Madness -
Sept 2008
LAS VEGAS, NV –
Treasure Island
Casino – Mystere Theatre – 3000 Las Vegas Blvd S – Cirque du Soleil’s
Mystere;
LAS VEGAS, NV –
Tropicana – Tiffany Theatre – topless
revue Les Folies Bergere (1959-2009) is hanging up its feathers March 28/09
after 49 years at the Tropicana hotel-casino – opened under then-Tropicana
entertainment director Lou Walters, the father of newswoman Barbara Walters
LAS VEGAS, NV –
Venetian – Showroom at the Venetian -
1800 seats – Phantom of the Opera – starts June 2006; Jersey Boys Spring 2008;
Blue Man Group; Rock of Ages – opens Dec 2012; – was formerly Sands
LAS VEGAS, NV –
Westward Ho – Crown Room
LAS VEGAS, NV -
Wynn Las Vegas Resort – Le Reve (2005)
in 2087 seat theatre; Avenue Q – opening Sept 2005 in 800 seat theatre – was formerly Desert Inn
LAWRENCE, KS – Granada Theatre
LAWRENCE, KS – Varsity Theatre
LAWRENCE, MA -
Empire Theatre
LEADVILLE, CO – Schoenberg Opera House – 1879
– used as courthouse until 1881
LEADVILLE, CO –
Tabor Opera House – 1879
– still in operation
LEADVILLE, CO – Wood Opera House – 1879 – 1000
seats – burned 1882
LENOX, MA – Shakespeare and Company has
announced plans to build a new performance arts center – construction will begin
fall 2007 on the site of the 30 year-old theatre company’s 30-acre campus and is
expected to conclude by spring 2008 in time for the 2008 summer season -
150-seat theatre, three acoustically advanced rehearsal spaces that can be used
simultaneously, and state-of-the-art costume and set design shop
LENOX, MA -
Tanglewood Serge
Koussevitzky Music Shed – see also Tanglewood, Ma
LEWISTON, ID – Liberty Theater – Atmospheric
style
LEWISTON, ME -
Empire Theatre
*LEWISTON, NY –
- Artpark – 1974 – 2,300 seats, set on 200 acres – numerous dance companies in
early years – Joffrey, Ailey, etc. – Aida 2007
*LEWISTOWN, PA
- Embassy Theatre – 1927
LEXINGTON, KY -
Lexington Opera House
LEXINGTON, KY – State Theater – Atmospheric style
LIMA, OH -
Orpheum Theatre
*LINCOLNSHIRE, IL -
Marriott Theatre – 10 Marriott
Drive – intimate arena theatre with only 9 rows of seats – 2nd most subscribed
theatre in the country – housed within 168 acre Marriott Resort complex
LINDENHURST, NY – movie house built 1948 – 765
seats – closed
LINDSAY,CA – Grove Theatre – abandoned
LITTLE ROCK, AR – Wynnsong 12 – closed 2005
LOCKPORT, NY -
Palace Theatre -
built 1925
LOMBARD, IL – DuPage Theater – Atmospheric
style – closed – being renovated
LONG BEACH, CA – Players Theatre (California
State University Theatre Arts Building (East Campus Drive off of East 7th Street
– cabaret venue
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY – LaGuardia Performing
Arts Center
LONGMONT, CO – Dickens Opera House – 1881 –
850 seats – now billiard parlour
LORDSBURG, NM -
Coronado Theatre
LOS ANGELES, CA – see also HOLLYWOOD, CA
LOS ANGELES, CA – Actor’s Gang Theatre – Bat
Boy 1997
LOS ANGELES, CA – AMC Century City
LOS ANGELES, CA -
Aquarius Theatre
LOS ANGELES, CA -
Arcade Theatre – built
1910
LOS ANGELES, CA – Baldwin Theater – 1950-1994
LOS ANGELES, CA – Billy Wilder Theater -
located on courtyard level of Hammer Museum in Westwood – opening December 2006
coinciding with the 100th anniversary of Wilder’s birth – 295 seats
LOS ANGELES, CA – Biltmore -
LOS ANGELES, CA – Backlot Theatre – In Gay
Company 1974
LOS ANGELES, CA – Baldwin Theatre – wooden
structure with 1800 seats
LOS ANGELES, CA -
Brentwood Theatre -
opened 1944 – Los Angeles’ Geffen Playhouse have announced the nearby Brentwood
Theatre as their interim home while the current theater undergoes renovation
starting in May 2004
LOS ANGELES, CA – California Theater
LOS ANGELES, CA –
Celebration Theatre – Hollywood venue known as a stage for gay and lesbian
voices – 7051-B Santa Monica Blvd. – Gay 90s 1994; Naked Boys Singing 1998
LOS ANGELES, CA -
Cine Grill – Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
LOS ANGELES, CA – Cineplex Beverly Center
LOS ANGELES, CA – Coronet Theatre – Billy
Barnes’ L.A. 1962
LOS ANGELES, CA – David Geffen Theater – to be on site of former department store, part of Museum of Contemporary Art – top open early 2017
LOS ANGELES, CA – Disney Concert Hall
LOS ANGELES, CA – Don’t Tell Mama – 8279 Santa Monica Blvd – sister to famous NYC cabaret now open March 2013 – unlike NYC one, this one serves brunch and dinner
LOS ANGELES, CA – Dorothy Chandler Pavillion –
3,086 seats – Baker’s Wife 1976
LOS ANGELES, CA -
Fairfax Theatre
- Beverly Blvd @ Fairfax – 80 year old cinema – plans to turn into residential
and retail complex March 2010
LOS ANGELES, CA – Ford Amphitheatre – built 1920 as Pilgrimage Theatre, rebuilt 1931 following fire that destroyed original construction – renamed Ford Theatre in 1976 – 1,200 seat venue and 87 seat Inside the Ford venue – undergoing renovations for 2012-13 season – reopens May 2013
LOS ANGELES, CA – Fox Village Theater
LOS ANGELES, CA – Freud Playhouse (UCLA) -
Macgown Hall
*LOS ANGELES, CA -
Geffen Playhouse – 10886 Le Conte
Avenue, Westwood – second theatre being built in May, 2004 – being housed in the
former Westwood Playhouse – ready for 2005/06 season – Geffen Playhouse have
announced the nearby Brentwood Theatre as their interim home while the current
theater undergoes renovation starting in May 2004 – main stage name changed to
Gil Cates Theater
LOS ANGELES, CA -
Grauman’s Chinese Theatre
- two million dollar extravagant theme theatre opened 1927 with C.B.DeMille’s
King of Kings – 2,258 seats – hand and footprints of the stars in pavement
outside – held the Academy Awards in the 1940s
LOS ANGELES, CA -
Grauman’s Million Dollar
Theatre
LOS ANGELES, CA -
Hollywood Bowl
LOS ANGELES, CA -
Hollywood Palladium
LOS ANGELES, CA – Hudson Backstage – Reefer
Madness 1999
LOS ANGELES, CA – Jazz Bakery
*LOS ANGELES, CA – Kodak Theatre – Hollywood
Blvd and Highland Avenue – 3500 seats – opening 2001
LOS ANGELES, CA – Landmark Westside to 11
screens in 2005; 14 in 2009
*LOS ANGELES, CA -
LEE STRASBERG CREATIVE CENTER/MARILYN MONROE
THEATRE
LOS ANGELES, CA – Liberty Theater – 3rd & Main
St
LOS ANGELES, CA – Loew’s State Theater – Broad
and New St. – 1921
*LOS ANGELES, CA -
Los Angeles Historic Movie
Palaces – Arcade-1910, Belasco, Cameo 1910-1991), Loews State 1921, Los
Angeles 1931, Mayan, Million Dollar 1918,
Orpheum – 1926,
Palace 1911, Rialto 1917, Roxie 1932, Tower 1927, United Artists 1927
LOS ANGELES, CA – Los Angeles Theater – 1931
to present – 615 S. B’Way – closed 1994
LOS ANGELES, CA – Luckman Fine Arts Complex
(California State University) – 5151 State University Drive
LOS ANGELES, CA – Luna Park Theatre – Scarlet
Letter 1994
LOS ANGELES, CA – Lunaria Restaurant and Jazz
Club – 10351 Santa Monica Boulevard – cabaret venue
LOS ANGELES -
Macha Theater – Naked Boys Singing
2009
*LOS ANGELES, CA -
Mark Taper Forum/sister theatre Ahmanson
-L.A. Music Center founded in 1967 (John Anson Ford Cultural Center) (742)- 2071
seat Ahmanson Theatre also situated here – Forum seats 750 – Murder in the
Cathedral 1960 and Three Sisters; world premieres of Trial of the Catonsville
Nine 1970; Shadow Box 1975; Children of a Lesser God 1980 – also 99 seat Forum
Lab – winner of Regional Theatre Tony Award 1977 – After current ’06-’07 season,
the Los Angeles theatre will close for summer renovations and will open next
year 2008
LOS ANGELES, CA – Matrix Theatre – Great
American Backstage Musical 1976
LOS ANGELES, CA – Mayan Theatre – 1927 – 1491 seats – opened as legitimate theatre, then showed second run movies – 1940’s, was a burlesque house and it is rumored that in 1948 a young Marilyn Monroe appeared here. By the end of the decade it tried arthouse films. From March 3rd 1950, the Mayan was the crown jewel of chain of Mexican film venues – becameadult porn theatre early 1970’s (some of the films were shot in the basement of the theatre) and around 1977 it was converted into a triple-screen theatre, still screening adult movies – auditorium has now been de-tripled and the current nightclub use, replete with the theatre’s original exotic Mayan interior, opened February 1990 and renamed The Mayan – Jump for Joy 1941;
LOS ANGELES, CA –
Music Center of Los
Angeles/Chandler Pavilion/Disney Concert Hall – 1967
LOS ANGELES, CA – National Theater – 1969 to
present
LOS ANGELES, CA – Nokia Theatre – As part of
the plan, AEG announced a naming-rights deal with Finnish mobile communications
giant Nokia. Three major components of the plan include the 7,400-seat Nokia
Theater, the 40,000-square-foot Nokia Plaza and the 2,400-seat Club Nokia
LOS ANGELES, CA -
Orpheum Theatre – 1926
LOS ANGELES, CA -
Pantages Theatre – 1910 – 534S
Broadway
LOS ANGELES, CA – Queen Mary – drag revues
LOS ANGELES, CA – Rendezvous – Ray Boubon’s
nightclub – late 1930s – early 1940s
LOS ANGELES, CA – Royal Theater
L0S ANGELES, CA – Roy and Edna Disney/Cal Arts
Theater (REDCAT) – $21 million Walt Disney Concert Hall opened Fall 2003 –
Redcat 270 seat theatre underneath – avant garde theatre from around the world
i.e. The Peach Blossom Fan
LOS ANGELES, CA – Shepard Theatre – Tinseltown
1981
LOS ANGELES, CA – Shubert Theatre – opened
with Follies (1972) – 1800 seats in a complex with two 5 storey office buildings
- all will be torn down in 2002 to construct new 280 million building
LOS ANGELES, CA – Silent Movie Theater – 611
Fairfax Ave – 1942 – 210 seats – closed 1979 – reopened 1991
LOS ANGELES, CA – Staples Center – 20,000
seats – home of Laker’s basketball team
LOS ANGELES, CA – Tally’s New Broadway
*LOS ANGELES, CA – Tiffany Theatre – 8532
Sunset Blvd – Once in a Blue Moon 1989;
LOS ANGELES, CA – Town Theatre
LOS ANGELES, CA – University of
California/UCLA Playhouse/Ralph Freud Playhouse – 1963
LOS ANGELES, CA -
Walt Disney Concert Hall
- 111 S. Grand and First Streets – 2,265 seats – opening October, 2003 – Walt
Disney Concert Hall is the new home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Los
Angeles Master Chorale.
*LOS ANGELES, CA – Warner Western – Cinerama -
later changed to Wiltern – closed in 1932 – restored in mid 1980s
LOS ANGELES, CA – Westwood Playhouse – see
Geffen Playhouse
LOS ANGELES, CA – Wiltern Theatre – Deco
spectacular theatre opened 1931 on Wiltshire Boulevard with Alexander Hamilton -
12 storey office tower and theatre – 2344 seats – one of the city’s more
important theatre palaces
LOUISVILLE, CO – Louisville Opera House/Redmen
Hall – 1895 – 450 seats – demolished 1953
*LOUISVILLE, KY -
Actors Theatre of Louisville (KY)
founded in 1964 in loft over store and then converted railway station – 1972 to
present home – 2 theatres – Pamela Brown Auditorium (637) and Victor Jory
Theatre (180)- winner of Regional Theatre Tony Award 1980 – Tricks 1971; Gin
Game 1977; Getting Out 1977; Lone Star 1979
LOUISVILLE, KY – Buckingham Theatre – early
1900s house playing burlesque
LOUISVILLE, KY – Crescent Theatre
LOUISVILLE, KY – Loew’s Theatre – 1927 -
Atmospheric style
LOUISVILLE, KY – Louisville Palace Theater –
Atmospheric style
*LOUISVILLE, KY -
Louisville Theatre -
LOUISVILLE, KY – Ohio Theatre
LOUISVILLE, KY -
Palace Theatre
LOVELAND, CO – Bartholf Opera House – 1884 –
400 seats – converted to apartments
LUBBOCK, TX – Winchester Theater – 1966 –
closed 1999 – demolished
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M MACON, GA -
Douglass Theatre – built 1921
*MADISON, NJ -
New Jersey Theatre Group
*MADISON, NJ -
American
Shakespeare Festival – 1950 – Drew University – winner of Regional Theatre
Tony Award 1957 – F.M.Kirby Shakespeare Theatre – 308 seats
MADISON, WI – Barrymore Theater – Atmospheric
style
MADISON, WI -
Madison Rep – resident Equity company’s
first work in its new home at The Playhouse in the Overture Center for the Arts
in Madison, WI
MADISON, WI – Playhouse in the Overture Center
for the Arts – see Madison Rep
MADISON, WI -
Regina Theatre/Edgewood
College -
MADISONVILLE, LA – Madison Theatre
MAGEE, MS – Magee Theatre
MAMARONECK, NY -
Emelin Theatre
MANALAPAN,FL – Plaza Theatre – Plaza del Mar Shopping Center, 262 South Ocean Blvd) – opens 2012
MANASSA, CO – Manassa Opera House – 1907 –
burned 1927
MANCOS, CO – Mancos Opera House – 1910 – being
restored currently
MANISTEE, MI – Opera House 1866
MANITOU SPRINGS – Wheeler Hall – 1889 – now
businesses and living quarters
MANY, LA – Sabine Theatre
*MARBLEHEAD, MA -
North Shore Players – (Charles
Hogan Auditorium) – formed 1957 -
MARION, OH – Palace Theatre – opened 1928 –
1400 seats – Atmospheric style
MARMARTH, ND -
Mystic Theatre
MARSHALLOWN, IA – Orpheum Theater –
Atmospheric style – closed
MARTINEZ, CA -
Willows Theatre Company – Ward St -
210 seats – 1974 opened 192 seat Willow Cabaret 2006 – mainstage facility in
Concord and Cabaret in Martinez
MARYLAND -
Dead Theatres
Online Maryland
MARYSVILLE, CA – Drive-In to close after 2005
season
MARYSVILLE, CA – State Theatre – abandoned
MAYSVILLE, KY – Russell Theater – Atmospheric
style – being renovated
MAYWOOD, IL – Lido Theater – Atmospheric style
– closed & demolished
McALESTER, OK – Okla Theater – Atmospheric
style
McKEESPORT, PA – John P. Harris Memorial
Theater – Atmospheric style – closed & demolished
MEMPHIS, TN -
Grand
Opera House – built 1890 – 1907 changed to Orpheum – fire 1923 – rebuilt
1928
*MEMPHIS, TN -
Orpheum Theatre – 1890 – Grand
Opera House – 1907 name changed to Orpheum – 1923 fire – 1928 new Orpheum opens
- 1972 live theatre returns until 1982 when renovated – reopened 1984
MEMPHIS, TN – Park Theatre
MENDENHALL, MS – Star Theatre
*MENOMONIE, WI -
Mabel Tainter Memorial
Theatre
METROPOLIS, IL – Metropolis Theatre – abandoned
MIAMI, OK -
Coleman Theatre Beautiful – 103
North Main Street – built 1929 as vaudeville and movie palace – 1600 seats -
stars such as Will Rogers,Tom Mix,Sally Rand have graced the stage
MIAMI BEACH, FL – Adrienne Arsht Center
MIAMI BEACH, FL – Carnival Center for the
Performing Arts – Biscayne Blvd – Knight Concert Hall – 2000 seats; Sanford and
Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House2400 seats; Studio Theatre – 200 seats; Peacock
Education Center – opened Oct 2006 – home to Miami City Ballet
*MIAMI BEACH, FL -
Colony Theatre
- Lincoln Road – small theatrical productions – frequently offers gay plays,
shows and events
MIAMI BEACH, FL -
Coconut Grove Playhouse – originally
built as a movie house in 1926, includes two stages, the 1,100-seat proscenium
Mainstage Theater and the intimate 135-seat Encore Room Theater – 2005-06 is the
Playhouse’s 50th season – April 2006 – There is dire news out of Miami for one
of South Florida’s — and the nation’s — oldest professional theatres: Coconut
Grove Playhouse has closed its doors – reopened April 13 after a brief shutdown
following reports of bounced paychecks and insurance issues at the 50-year-old
South Florida resident theatre – will go dormant this summer 2006 while the
board seeks a direction for the institution, which is $4 million in debt
MIAMI BEACH, FL – Frank Gehry’s New World Center – opening Jan 30/11 – concert hall itself is horseshoe-shaped, like Disney’s, but it’s much more intimate—756 seats to Disney’s 2,265. Its small size means “the audience is right in the music.” The five vast sail-like shapes that float against the upper walls both aid the acoustics and double as screens on which commissioned video art can accompany some orchestral pieces
MIAMA BEACH, FL – Gayla – Jose Sarria – drag
revues
MIAMI BEACH, FL – Gusman Center for the
Performing Arts – 174 E. Flagler Street – Atmospheric style (see also Olympia
Theatre)
*MIAMI BEACH, FL -
Jackie Gleason Theatre of the
Performing Arts – 1700 Washington Avenue – named Gleason in 1987 – 2700
seats – in the 1950s known as the Miami Beach Auditorium and drew names like
Frank Sinatra, Henny Youngman, Cab Calloway, Bob Hope,Jack Benny – in the 1960s
it was used for filming The Dick Clark Show, The Ed Sullivan Show and the Jackie
Gleason Show – dozens of big names have since graced its stage – 1970s became
site of touring shows – Eartha Kitt, Angela Lansbury, Mickey Rooney, Rudolf
Nureyev, along with shows like Rent, Cabaret and Fosse – it is also home to the
Miami City Ballet
*MIAMI BEACH, FL -
Lincoln
Theatre – Lincoln Road – home to the New World Symphony
*MIAMI BEACH, FL – Olympia Theatre – 21
million renovation June 2002 – at Gusman Center for the Performing Arts – 174 E.
Flagler Street
MIAMI BEACH, FL – Red Carpet
MIAMI BEACH, FL – Roosevelt Theater
MIAMI BEACH, FL – University of Miami’s
Theatre – 1950
MIAMI SHORES, FL -
Shores Theatre – 9806 NE
Second Avenue
MIDDLETOWN, CT – Capital Theatre – see East
Haddam, CT – Goodspeed Opera House
*MILBURN, NJ -
Paper Mill Playhouse – opened in 1938 -
fire in 1980 and reopened 1982
MILWAUKEE, WS -
Skylight Music Theater – 158 N Broadway – started
1959 – Broadway Theater Center – name changing to Skylight Music Theatre – started more than 50 years ago as Skylight Theatre, then Skylight Comic Opera, then Skylight and to current Skylight Opera Theatre
MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Center Opera Company of
Minneapolis – 1963
*MINNEAPOLIS, MN -
Children’s Theatre Company – 2400
Third Avenue South – Regional Theatre Tony Award 2003
MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Orpheum Theatre – 1921
MINNEAPOLIS, MN -
Theatre de la Jeune – Regional Theatre
Tony Award® 2005
MILWAUKEE, WI –
Alhambra Theater
– 3000 seats – 1896-1960 – demolished 1961
MILWAUKEE, WI – Avalon Theater – Atmospheric
style – closed
MILWAUKEE, WI -
Blatz Temple
MILWAUKEE, WI – Grand Theater – Atmospheric
style – closed
MILWAUKEE, WI – Juneau Theatre – Mitchell
Street – 1911
MILWAUKEE, WI -
Marcus Center for the Performing Arts
- Water & State Streetscelebrating 40th Anniversary 2009
MILWAUKEE, WI – Milwaukee Repertory Theatre –
1954 – founded as Fred Miller Theatre – moved to Wehr Theatre (504 seats) – 1973
Court Street Theatre was added
MILWAUKEE, WI – National Theater – Atmospheric
style – closed & demolished
MILWAUKEE, WI -
Oriental Theater – a cinema treasure – made into a triplex – The two smaller
theaters do carry the theme with them as well. The Oriental holds the world
record as the longest running continuous showing of “Rocky Horror Picture Show”
which is shown every Second Saturday night, (since 1978) complete with an acting
troupe leading the crowd and people bring the correct props for the show
MILWAUKEE, WI -
Pabst Theater – built
in 1995 fell into hard times and there was talk of tearing it down for.. a
parking lot. In 1976 because of the efforts of several people in town it was
remodeled and restored to it’s original beauty
MILWAUKEE, WI -
)Stackner
Wells Street Cabaret – 108 East Wells Street – cabaret venue
MILWAUKEE, WI -
Venetian
Theatre – 1927 – 37th & Center St – atmospheric – 1430 seats – became
furniture store – was abandoned – demolished 2007
MILWAUKEE, WI – Zenith Theater – Atmospheric
style – closed
MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Children’s Theatre Company -
winner of Tony Award 2003 for best regional theatre
MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Granada Theater
*MINNEAPOLIS, MN -
Guthrie Theatre – 1963 (1,437)-
originally the Minneapolis Theatre – opened 1963 (1441 seats_ – the company is
hoping to leave the current theatre for a larger space in 2005 – building will
be demolished and Guthrie will move into an expanded Walker Art Center next door
- winner of Regional Theatre Tony Award 1982 – The new Guthrie arts facility was
designed by French architect Jean Nouvel and will include an 1,100-seat thrust
theatre, a 700-seat proscenium stage, flexible 250-seat studio theatre and
classrooms for more than 100,000 annual education participants. Production
facilities, restaurants and rehearsal spaces will also be part of the proposed
center – Cherry Orchard (Hume Cronyn,Jessica Tandy) 1965 – will reopen at its
new $125 million complex with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the Jazz
Age work will run July 15/06-Sept. 10/06 – new building will house 1,100-seat
thrust stage, 700-seat proscenium theater and 250-seat studio theater, along
with offices, production and support facilities, classrooms, restaurants, bars
MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Homewood Theater –
Atmospheric style – closed & demolished
MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Lyric Theater – 1885-1923 –
1700 seats
MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Northtown Theater
MINNEAPOLIS, MN -
Orchestra Hall
MINNEAPOLIS, MN -
Orpheum Theatre – built
1921
MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Pence Opera House – early
1900s burlesque house
MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Surburban World Theater –
Atmospheric style – closed
MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Theatre Comique – early
1900s burlesque house
MINNEAPOLIS, MN -Theatre
de la Jeune Lune – company founded 1978 – winner of 2005 regional theatre
tony award – closes end of July 2008
MINNEAPOLIS, WS – Tyrone Guthrie Theatre -
late 1950s
*MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Walker Art Center – see
Guthrie Theatre
MISSOURI REPERTORY THEATRE – see Kansas City
Repertory Theatre
MISSION VIEJO, CA – Saddleback College – 28000
Marguerite Parkway – cabaret venue
MOBILE, AL -
Municipal Auditorium and
Theater
*MONMOUTH, ME – 1970 – 2nd season of Summer
Shakespeare
MONTEREY, CA -
First theatre -
1840, corner of Pacific and Scott
MONTEREY, CA – Golden State 3 Theater –
Atmospheric style – being demultiplexed 2005
MONTE RIO, CA – Rio Theater
MONTE VISTA, CO – Broadway Opera House – 1896
– 600 seats – 1930s became mortuary
MONTGOMERY, AL -
Capri
MONTGOMERY, AL -
Shakespeare Theater
MONTGOMERY, MD – Olney Theatre Centre – founded 1938, North of Washington, D.C. – built on site of former roller rink – major reno 1940 – houses 3 theatres and amphitheatre which hosts Summer Shakespeare Festival – mainstage 429 seats – home to National Players since 1949 – appeared here the likes of Helen Hayes, Lillian Gish, Gloria Swanson, Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn, Carol Channing, Ian McKellen, and Marcia Gay Harden to name but a few
MONTICELLO, MS – Mono Theatre
MONTICELLO, NY – Concord Hotel Resort – Feb, 2012 – Two companies are planning to develop the largest now defunct resort in upstate New York in decades — a $600 million entertainment, housing and gambling complex on the grounds of a once-famous borscht belt hotel – project includes a proposal to move Monticello racetrack and slot machine parlor to the site of the hotel, the Concord, where Milton Berle, Danny Kaye and Buddy Hackett once entertained vacationing New Yorkers
MONTROSE, CO – Buddecke and Diehl Opera House
– 1888 – torn down 1959
MONTROSE, CO – Gray Opera House/Montrose Opera
House – became Empress Theatre – 300 seats – closed 1939
MONTVILLE, NJ – Barn Theatre – now in 85th season – started as Mountain Lakes Dramatic Guild with “Icebound” in 1928 – WWII was spent entertaining troupes at Fort Dix – 1953 company used former blacksmith shop – now over 1100 subscribers
MORGANTON, NC – Alva Theatre
MOUNT AIRY, PA – Mount Airy Casino Resort -
opened Oct/07 – built on site of Mount Airy Lodge which had heyday in 1960s -
188 room hotel to open in November/07 – nightclub by end of 2007 with featured
entertainers – retail and conference centre are in the works
MOUNT CARMEL, IL -
Palace Theatre
MOYLAN, PA – Hedgerow Theatre (136 seats) -
(near Philadelphia) opened 1923 – 2nd oldest rep company in U.S. – a converted
Grist Mill dating from 1840 and abandoned in 1956 – world premieres of
Winesburg, Ohio 1934; In the Summer House 1951; White Clouds Black Dreams 1973;
Low on High 1978
MUKEGON, MI – see Traverse City, MI
MUNCIE, IN – Rivoli Theater – Atmospheric
style – closed & demolished
NACOGDOCHES, TX – Main Theatre – abandoned
NAPA VALLEY, CA -
Napa Valley Opera House -
1000 Main Street – reopened August 2003 after 89 years of darkness – Margrit
Biever Mondavi Theatre – closed 1914 – John Philip Sousa
NAPERVILLE, IL -
Crossroads Theater – 22 East
Chicago Ave – two theatres, 158 seats and 75 seats transformed from second floor
office space
NAPLES, FL – Regal Hollywood 20 – Atmospheric
style
NASHVILLE, TN -
Grand Ole Opry House
NASHVILLE, TN – Nashville Childrens Theatre –
founded 1931 – oldest childrens theatre in the U.S.
NASHVILLE, TN -
Ryman Auditorium original home of Grand Ole
Opry
NASHVILLE, TN -
Schermerhorn Symphony Center -
new home to Nashville Symphony 2006 – 1,872-seat auditorium to match the shoebox
shape of the fabled Musikvereinsaal in Vienna and Concertgebouw in Amsterdam
*NASHVILLE, TN -
Tennessee Performing Arts Center – Andrew
Jackson Hall, James K. Polk Theatre
NEWARK, NJ – Loew’s State Theater – Broad &
new Sts – 1921 – movies & vaudeville
NEWARK, NJ – Opera House – early 1900s
burlesque house
NEWARK, NJ – Prudential Center
NEWARK, NJ – RKO Proctor’s Place Theatre
NEWARK, NJ – Stanley Theater – Atmospheric
style – closed
NEW BEDFORD, MA -
Zeiterion Theatre – built
1923
NEWBERRY, SC -
Newberry Opera House – built
1881
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ -
Crossroads Theater
- 7 Livingston Ave – 300 seats – built 1991 as home to the Crossroads Theatre
Company – the Nation’s leading African American theatre – winner of the 1999
Tony for Regional Theatre
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ -
State Theatre -
15 Livingston Avenue – 1800 seats – built 1921 as vaudeville and silent movie
palace
NEWCASTLE, CO – Hahan Opera House – before
1892 – movie house in 1920s – burned 1950
NEWCASTLE, PA – Cascade Theater
NEW HAVEN, CT – Dixwell Playhouse
*NEW HAVEN, CT -
Long Wharf Theatre – founded 1965 –
situated in meat and produce terminal (484 seats) – Demolition of the Coliseum
sports arena in New Haven will free up six acres of prime downtown real estate;
part of that area will become the new home of the 40-year-old Long Wharf Theater
- new theater will have two performance spaces: the Mainstage Newton Schenk
Theater and Stage II Changing Room 1973; Shadow Box 1977; Gin Game 1977;
American Buffalo 1980; – has intimate Stage 2 – winner of Regional Theatre Tony
Award 1978
NEW HAVEN, CT – Princess Theatre
*NEW HAVEN, CT -
Shubert Performing Arts Centre (Shubert
Theatre) – opened 1914 with Belle of Bond Street – 1820 seats; Robinson
Crusoe (Al Jolson) 1916 – was major tryout centre with shows like: 19320s and
1930s – Desert Song; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court; Of Thee I
Sing; Barretts of Wimpole Street; Leave It To Me 1938; 1940s and 1950s Away We
Go (which changed to Oklahoma-1943); Carousel 1945; Allegro 1947; Streetcar
Named Desire 1947; Call Me Madam; South Pacific 1949; and 1950s and 1960s The
King and I 1951; Teahouse of the August Moon; Desperate Hours; Call Me Madam;
Long Day’s Journey Into Night; Pipe Dream 1955; My Fair Lady 1956; Sound of
Music 1959. Closed from 1976 and reopened 1984 as The Shubert Performing Arts
Center
NEW HAVEN, CT – Yale University and Repertory
Theatre – performed as early as 1771 – among the first Conscious Lovers; Beaux
Strategem – 1925 drama department inaugurated – 1966 Yale Repertory Theatre
founded – 1968 moved into church conversion – 1975 reconstructed to 4
auditoriums – the 2 smaller used by the school – Connecticut will contribute $30
million to support the construction of a new Long Wharf Theatre venue in
downtown New Haven on the site currently occupied by the vacant New Haven
Coliseum – The lease at the current home expires in 2010
*NEW HOPE, PA -
Bucks County Playhouse – reopening Summer 2012 -
opened 1939 – was former gril in 1930s – derelict since l 2010 – With the acquisition of the former National Pastime space, Profiles now operates three theatres in total, including its long-time home at 4147 N. Broadway and The Second Stage at 3408 N. Sheffield – list of performers who have played there includes Kim Hunter, Helen Hayes, Kitty Carlisle, Colleen Dewhurst, Shirley Booth, Sara Seegar, Lillian Gish, June Lockhart, Frances Reid, Peggy McCay, Grace Kelly, Bonnie Franklin, Kaye Ballard, Sandy Dennis, Farley Granger, Robert Redford, Paul Lynde, Kevin McCarthy, Bert Lahr, Leslie Nielsen, Jack Klugman, Gale Gordon, Roddy McDowell, Walter Matthau, Merv Griffin and Larry Hagman, among many others
NEW HOPE, PA – The Main Stage – 4139 N Broadway – opens April 2012 – home of Profiles Theatre – next door to 65t space, which will be renamed Alley Stage – was former National Pastime Space
NEW HOPE, PA -
Odette’s – South River Road – piano bar and
cabaret space, set in a handsome 200-year-old inn, features New York and
Philadelphia entertainers. It takes its name from stage and screen star Odette
Mytril Logan, who opened a French restaurant there in 1961
NEW LONDON, CT -
Garde Theatre – built 1926 – 325 State
St – 1600 seats – closed 1977 – restored to Garde Arts Center
NEW LONDON, MN -
Little Crow Players
NEW ORLEANS, LA – American Theatre – 1824
NEW ORLEANS, LA –
French Opera House –
1859 – destroyed 1919
NEW ORLEANS, LA – Hotel Monteleone – Carousel
Bar – 2006 is the 20th Annual Tennessee Williams Festival in this famous bar —
as it has since 1949 – Ernest Hemingway drank here. So did Truman Capote. But
pride of place went to New Orleans’ favourite son, Tennessee Williams – It’s not
as lavish as in previous years, even though such celebrities as Richard Thomas,
Tab Hunter, Rex Reed and Stephanie Zimbalist have all come down to participate
for free – Blanche and Beyond, the one-man show based on Williams’ letters in
which Richard Thomas
NEW ORLEANS, LA – Dixie’s Bar of Music – Ray
Bourbon
NEW ORLEANS, LA – French Opera House – opened
mid 1800s – grandest theatre and part of bustling theatre district in French
Quarter that started late 1700s, until Opera House burned down in 1919 – now
Puccini Bar located at the Inn on the Bourbon, a hotel built on the site of the
French Opera House
NEW ORLEANS, LA – Jefferson Theatre
NEW ORLEANS, LA -
Le Chat Noir- 715 St.
Charles Avenue – cabaret venue
NEW ORLEANS, LA – Le Petit Theatre – community theatre founded 1916 – in this location since 1922 – closed Dec 2010 – to reopen soon
NEW ORLEANS, LA – Lyric Theatre – key theatre
for black vaudeville performers – great jazz performers came out of this curcuit
T.O.BA. and played New York’s Palace and the fabulous Apollo Theatre – Ma Rainey
and Bessie Smith appeared here – burned down in 1927
NEW ORLEANS, LA -
Mahalia Jackson Theatre for the
Performing Arts – damage to the city’s other major theatres – Katrina’s
effects on the Municipal Auditorium and Mahalia Jackson theatre – wasn’t as
severe, and he expects them to be operational within the year
NEW ORLEANS, LA – Moore’s Large Building – New
Orleans – 1806
NEW ORLEANS, LA -
Municipal Auditorium – Katrina’s effects on the Municipal Auditorium and
Mahalia Jackson theatre – wasn’t as severe, expects to be operational within the
year
NEW ORLEANS, LA – My Oh My Club – Jose Sarria
– drag revues
NEW ORLEANS, LA – New American Theatre – 1840
NEW ORLEANS, LA – New Charles Street Theatre –
1843
NEW ORLEANS, LA – New Orleans Theatre of the
Performing Arts – 2300 seats – 1973
NEW ORLEANS, LA – Old French Opera House -
1859
NEW ORLEANS, LA -
Orpheum Theatre – built 1921 -
severely flooding two of its oldest theatres – the Orpheum and the Saenger -
both listed on the national registry of historic places – recovery from Katrina
has been all but stagnant – the future of the 85-year-old theatre, which for
years has served as home to the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, is uncertain
NEW ORLEANS, LA – Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre
– 1922
NEW ORLEANS, LA -
Preservation Hall
NEW ORLEANS, LA -
Saenger Performing
Arts Centre – North Rampart Street – results of Aug/05 hurricane Katrina not
known -opened 1927 (4000 seats)- built for movies and stage shows – historic
theatrical touring house in Atmospheric style – in 1933 the Saenger Theatre did
away with all its live performance elements and became a ‘talking pictures’
theatre only – In 1964 ABC Interstate Theatres turned the Saenger into a
‘piggyback’ theatre – 1978 renovated to make arts centre – 1980 reopened with
2794 seats – concert venue until 2005 – severely flooding two of its oldest – the Orpheum and the Saenger -
both listed on the national registry of historic places – renovations underway
since Hurricane Katrina – reopens October 2013 with Book of Mormon (touring production)
NEW ORLEANS, LA – St. Charles Theatre – 1835
NEW ORLEANS, LA – Storyville District –
originally the Red Light District – famous club featuring Louis Armstrong,
Jellyroll Morton and other jazz greats – new club has taken the name
NEW ORLEANS, LA – Theatre St. Pierre – 1807 -
only ran for three seasons, but 1st opera (Sylvain presented here in 1796
NEWPORT, RI – Brick Market Theatre – 1793 –
later named Newport Theatre – in use until 1842
NEWPORT, RI -
Newport Jazz
Festival – 50th season 2004
NEWPORT, RI – Newport Theatre – see Brick
Market Theatre
NEWPORT BEACH, CA – Lido Cinema – Atmospheric
style
NEWARK, NJ – RKO Proctor’s Palace
NIAGARA FALLS, NY -
Seneca Niagara Casino and Hotel
- Bear’s Den Showroom – 443 seats – top music acts; Seneca Events Center – 2200
seat venue showcases biggest names in show business
NORMAL, IL -
Normal Theatre – 1937 -
closed May 1990 after being 2 screen theatre
NEW YORK, NY -
New York Theatres
NORTHAMPTON, MA – Academy of Music – 1890
NORTHAMPTON, MA – Calvin Theater – 1923 –
closed 1994 – now performing arts center
NORTH HAMPTON, PA -
Lyric Theatre
(Roxy) – built 1921 – reopened as Roxy 1933 – 1950s used for concerts i.e.
Fabian, Springsteen, Manchester, Joel
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA – Circle Theatre at the El
Portal Center for the Arts – 5269 Lankershim Boulevard
NORTHPORT, NY – Northport Theatre – single
screen movie theater has been on the property since 1912; was rebuilt in 1932
after a fire – 450 seats
NORWICH, CT – Spirit of Broadway Theater – 24
Chestnut St
NYACK, NY –
Helen Hayes Theatre – 117 Main Street
OAK BROOK, IL -
First Folio Shakespeare Festival -
founded 1996 – now in 12th year of producing – 80 seat chamber seat theatre
added 2005 in formal library of Mayslake Hall – located in western suburb of
Chicago
OAKDALE, NY – CM Performing Arts Center –
built 1951 as single-screen theater – converted 1997 – 394 seats
OAKLAND, CA –
Grand Lake
Theater
*OAKLAND, CA -
Paramount Theatre
- 1931 – Art Deco masterpiece – atmospheric
OAKLAND, CA –
Yoshi’s – jazz venue on Jack London Square serves tasty Asian fare and
features comfortable tiered seating. “It’s a beautifully created showroom.”
Among past big-name performers: Oscar Peterson and Bobby Short
ODESSA, TX -
Ector Theatre – reopened
2001
ODESSA, TX – Lyric Theatre
ODESSA, TX – Scott Theatre – abandoned
OGDEN, UT – Main Theatre – abandoned
OGUNQUIT, ME –
Ogunquit Playhouse –
1937
OKAUCHEE, WI -
Golden
Mast Inn – W349 N5253 Lacy’s Lane, Okauchee – cabaret venue
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Lyric Theatre
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Mummers Theatre – 1970
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK –
Oklahoma City Repertory Company -
Freede Little Theatre at Civic Centre – 286 seats
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Regal Windsor Hills 10 –
closed 2005
OLATHE, CO – Chimney Hall – 1897 – now
community centre
OLATHE, CO – Olathe Opera House – 1900 – movie
house 1914 – burned 1918
OLATHE, CO – Rhodes Hall – burned down – now
garage
OLD BETHPAGE, NY – Cultural Arts Playhouse –
built 1962 as single screen theater – converted 1995 – 250 seats
OLD FORGE, NY – Strand Theater>
OLD SAYBROOK, CT -
Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts
Center & Theatre – 96 year building which started as a theatre and remained
until 1940s when old town hall took over, is to be converted to arts center -
original balcony to be used in new theatre with 268 seats – to also display
Hepburn memorabilia
OLYMPIA, WA – Ladyfest – no future events
planned
OMAHA, NE -
Brandeis Theater
OMAHA, NE – Indian Hills Theater – 1962-2001 –
demolished
OMAHA, NE – Rose Blumkin Performing Arts
Center – Atmospheric style
*OREGON –
Oregon Shakespearian Festival – 1935 – three theatres – open air Elizabethan
(1200)(new Elizabethan stage 1959)/600 seat Angus Bowmer (1970) and Black
Swan(1977) (150)
*ORLANDO, FL -
Disneyworld – see also Universal
Orlando Resort
ORLANDO, FL -
Epcot Center – see also
Disneyworld
ORLANDO, FL – Orlando Broadway Dinner Theatre
- closed 2004 after more than 30 years, under various names, including Mark Two
ORLANDO, FL -
Orlando Opera Company – 1111 North
Orange Avenue – 2008 is 50th season
ORLANDO, FL -
Orlando Repertory Theatre – (1001 East
Princeton St)
ORLANDO, FL -
Plaza Theater – 425 North Bumby Ave
- newly renovated historic venue, 2 theatres with 867 seats and 272 seats resp.
ORLANDO, FL -
Winter Park Playhouse – 711B Orange Avenue, Winter Park
OSAGE, IA – Watts Theater – 1950 – 575 seats
OURAY, CO – Wright Opera House – 1888 – 500
seats
OYSTER BAY, NY – looking at turning a former
Knights of Columbus Hall on Summit Street into a performing arts center
PADUCAH, KY – Columbia Theatre – abandoned
PAGOSA SPRINGS, CO – Gross Grand Opera House –
1895 – now Wells Fargo Bank
PALM BEACH, FL -
Royal Room at the Colony Hotel – 155 Hammond Avenue – cabaret venue
PALM SPRINGS, CA -
Dolly’s Palm Springs – currently relocating – reopening in July 2003
PALO ALTO, CA – Aquarius Theater – Atmospheric
style
PALO ALTO, CA -
Stanford Theatre
PALO ALTO, CA -
Varsity Theatre
PAONIA, CO – Grewel Opera House – ca 1898 –
torn down 1957
PAONIA, CO – Paonia Opera House – 1906 –
burned 1995
PARAMUS, NJ – The Mall – 1960 – 550 seats
PARKERSBURG, WV -
Smoot Theatre – built
1926
PARK FOREST, IL – Holiday Theatre – 340 Main
St – 1950 – 2003 – became 5 screen theatre 1990 – now closed
PARK RIDGES, IL – Pickwick Theatre – 1928
PARK RIVER, ND –
Lyric Theater – silent picture era theater – restored
*PASADENA, CA -
Pasadena Community Playhouse -
1918 – refurbished and reopened 1925 – 820 seats – followed by College of
Theatre Arts – Radio Gals 1995 – closed 1969 – properties auctioned off in 1970
but was restored and reopened in 1986 – being shuttered Feb 7/10 trying to
refinance – emerged from bankruptcy summer 2010 – reopening with Fall 2010 production
PASADENA, CA -
Raymond Theatre – opened 1921 – 2000
seats – has had various names – Crown Theatre 1948, Perkins Palace 1979, before
being restored to it’s original magnificent splendour
PASKO, WA – Pasco Theatre
PATCHOGUE, LONG ISLAND, NY – Patchogue Theater for the Performing Arts – opened 1923 as vaudeville house under name Ward and Glynne’s Theatre with over 1,200 seats – 1929 became movie house – 1980 purchased for multiplex with 3 screens but soon sat empty until 1996 and
completed $7 million in renovations with support from federal and state
government grants – reopened 1998 as legitimate theatre with 1189 seats
PATERSON, NJ – Opera House 1866
PAULSBORO, NJ -
Hill Theatre
PAXTON, IL – Paxton Majestic Theatre
PEEKSKILL, NY – Paramount Center for the Arts
– 1930 – 1600 seats – restored
PEKIN, IL – Pekin Theatre – Atmospheric style
– closed & demolished
PELAHATCHIE, MS – Park Theatre
PENDLETON, OR – United Artists Theatre
PENSACOLA, FL – Rex Theatre – abandoned
PENSACOLA, FL – Saenger Theater – Atmospheric
style
PENSACOLA, FL – University 16 (Regal)
University 8 to close 2005
PERTH AMBOY, NJ – Majestic Theater
PETERSBURG, VA -
Camp Lee Theatre No. 1
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Academy of Music – built 1857 – Broad & Locust – 2938 seats, was home to the Philadelphia Orchestra until 2001 when Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts opened
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Adelphia – 1876 – Broad & Cherry – 300 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Adelphi – 1907-1937 – Broad & Cherry – 1341 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Adrienne Theatre – 2030 Sanson St
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Alhambra – 1910-1961 – 1628 Passyunk – 1449 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Allegheny – 1912-1956 – 3141 Frankford – 2855 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – American Museum – see Dumont’s
PHILADELPHIA, PA – American Opera House – see Southwark
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Amateur Drawing Room – 1865-1882 – 17th & Chestnut – 700 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Amphitheatre – 1863-1865 – 12th & market
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Annenberg Center – University of Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Arch Street Theatre- 1828 – see Chestnut Street Theatre – Caius Marius – 1831, Oralloossa or Last of the Incas – 1832 (5)
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Apollo – 1811 – Apollo & South
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Arch Street – 1828-1936 – 609 Arch – 1911 seats – razed 1936
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Academy of Music – built 1857 – Broad & Locust – 2938 seats, was home to the Philadelphia Orchestra until 2001 when Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts opened
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Adelphi – 1907 – Broad & Cherry St – demolished 1937 – twin to Lyric
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Aldine – 19th & Chestnut St
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Allegheny – 1912 – 3141 Franford Ave
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Ambassador – 1921 – 5542 Baltimore Ave
PHILADELPHIA, PA – American Academy of Music – 1857 – Broad & Locust Sts
PHILADELPHIA, PA – American Music Theatre Festival – founded 1984 – see Prince Music Theatre
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Arcadia – 1915 – 1529 Chestnut St – became fast food place 1978
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Arch Street Opera House – see Trocadero
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Art Pantheon – see Rickett’s Amphitheatre – 6th & Chestnut St – wooden structure – 600-700 seats – burned 1799
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Belvedere – see Hill
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Bijou – 1877 – 253 N 8th & Race – 1200 seats – lst of 10 theatres to be named Bijou – 1884 became Forepaugh’s – demolished 1960
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Boyd Theatre – 1928 – 19th & Chestnut – restoring for 2006 – last of Art Deco movie palaces in this city – on endangered list
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Breeze – 1911-1953 – 1638 Point Breeze – 1200 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Broad – 1876-1886 – Broad & Cherry – 677 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Broad Street – 1876-1937 – Broad & Locust – 1406 seats – see Kiralfy’s
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Broadway – 1913-1971 – 2042 S Broad – 2183 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Budco Regency Twin – Atmospheric style – closed & demolished
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Cariola Hall – 1920-1929 – 7th & Christian – 750 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Carman – 1928-1978 – Germantown & Allegheny – 2200 seats – 8 years later the 2200 seat theatre opened across street – the first operated as Galard Theatre
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Central Theatre – early 1900s burlesque house
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Cheltenham Theater – Atmospheric style – closed & demolished
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Chestnut Street Keith’s – see Keith’s
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Chestnut Street Opera House – 1880s – 1021 Chestnut – 1656 seats – torn down 1940
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Chestnut Street Theatre – 1793-1820 – 6th & Chestnut – sometimes called New – company brought from England but was not opened until 1794 because of yellow fever epidemic – America’s first proscenium-style theatre – 2000 seats – sometimes known as Old Drury – 1820 damaged by fire – refurbished and reopened in 1822 as New – Superstition 1824, Triumph at Plattsburg 1830, Eighth of January 1829, Indian Princess or La Belle Sauvage 1808, Deformed or Woman’s Trial – 1830 (4)built in 1793 (2000 seats) burned in 1856 and rebuilt in 1863 – demolished 1917; 2nd – Chestnut Street – 1822-1855 – 6th & Chestnut – 1100 seats – razed 1855
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Chinese Museum – 1838-1854 – 1211-15 Chestnut between 12th & 13th – 3000 seats on lower floor and 5000 on upper
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Circle Theater – 1929 – 4652 Frankford – 2991 seats – Atmospheric style – closed
PHILADELPHIA, PA – City Museum – 1854-1890 – 415 Callowhill
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Colonial – 1907-1914 – 15th & Chestnut – 600 seats; 2nd Colonial – 1913-1963 – 5526 Germantown – 2552 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Colosseum Cyclorama – 1876 – Broad & Locust
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Columbia – 1857-1912 – 520 N 3rd
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Commodore – 1928 – 43rd & Walnut
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Concert Hall – 1853-1894 – 1217 Chestnut
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Crosskeys – 1914-1957 – 5931 Market – 1995 seats – on former site of tavern and hotel of same name
PHILADELPHIA, PA – <a href=”http://www.andreas-praefcke.de/carthalia/”>Curtis Hall</a>
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Curtis Institute
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Diamond – 2119 Germantown – 1920
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Dixie Rose – 1915-1935 – 151 Levering – 950 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Doak’s Hall – 1880-1914 – 1216 Moore
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Dumonts – 1870-1929 – originally called American Museum, Menagerie and Theatre – 9th & Arch 900 seats – burned 1929<p>
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Dunbar Theatre – 1919 –1400 seats – northeast corner of Broad and Lombard Streets – Erected by Black bankers, this theater was home to the Lafayette Players, popular vaudeville entertainers. Later bought by white interests and renamed the Lincoln, it hosted major Black performers from the 1920s into the 1940s – Within the Law 1919 – devoted to black productions for black audiences – In the 1930s and 40s, hosted many of the country’s top African-American entertainers, including Duke Ellington, Lena Horne and the Nicholas brothers – demolished in 1950s
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Duse Art – 1930 – 1821 Ranstead
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Earle – 1924-1953 – 11th & Market – 2768 seats – opened as Elrae – demolished 1953
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Eleventh Street Opera – 1895 – Dumont’s Minstrels – demolished in 1911
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Elrae – see Earle
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Empire – 1891-1898 – Broad & Locust – 1590 seats – replaced by Walton Hotel 1898; 2nd Empire – 1901-1928 – 4650 Frankford
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Erien Theater – Atmospheric style – closed & demolished
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Erlanger – 1927-1978 – 21st & Market – 1890 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Eureka – 40th & Market – 1913
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Fairmount – 1913-1959 – 26th & Fairmont – 1243 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Fay’s – 1914-1964 – 4032 Market – 1826 seat
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Federal Hall – 1870-1901 – 17th & Federal
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Felton – Rising Sun & Loudon – 1919 – 1362 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Fern Rock – 1828-1992 – 6017 N 5th – 1289 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Forepaugh’s – 1877-1960 – 253 N 8th – 1300 seats – see Bijou
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Forrest – 1907-1927 – Broad & Sansom – 1820 seats – replaced by Fidelity Trust; 2nd Forrest – 1928 – 11th & Walnut – 1889 seats – replaced earlier one on Broad St – restored 1978
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Forum – 1928 – 5231 Frankford – 1777 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Fox – 1923-1980 – 16th & Market – 2423 seats; 2nd Fox – Broad & Locust – 1927
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Frankford – 1914-1955 – 4711 Frankford – 1595 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Frankford Opera – 1885-1910
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Galard – see Carman
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Garden – 1923-1938 – 4th & Spring Garden – 1000 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Garrick – 1901-1936 – 1330 Chestnut – 1561 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Gayety – 1892-1953 – 237 N 8th – 1425 seats – torn down 1953
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Gem – 1910-1913 – 1619 South
PHILADELPHIA, PA – German – 1906 – Marshall & Gerrard – 1000 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Germantown – 5508 Germantown – 1911
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Germantown Opera House – 1883 – 4900 Germantown
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Gilmore’s Auditorium – 1893-1935 – 809 Walnut – 2346 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Girard Avenue – 1891-1964 – 621 W Girard – 900 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Globe – 1914-1929 – Juniper & Market – 1710 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Grand Opera House/Nixon’s Grand – 1888-1940 – Broad & Montgomery – home of National Opera Co – later became Nixon Grand – 3085 seats – demolished 1940
PHILADELPHIA, PA – <a href=”http://www.andreas-praefcke.de/carthalia/”>Hammerstein’s Metropolitan Opera House</a>
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Harold Prince – 1971 – 37th & Walnut – 165 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Hill – 8320 Germantown – opened as Belvedere in 1916
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Holme – 1929-1951 – 8049 Frankford – 1364 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Horticultural Hall – 1867-1917 – 250 S Broad – 1050 seats – destroyed by fire 1881 – rebuilt & fire again 1893 – 1918 building replaced by Sam S. Shubert Memorial Theatre
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Irvine Auditorium – 1927 – 34th & Spruce – 2127 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Italia – 1914-1966 – 733 Christian – 680 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Karlton – 1412 Chestnut – 1921 – see Midtown
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Keith’s – also known as Chestnut Street Keith’s – 1902-1971 – 1116 Chestnut – 2273 seats – 1949 became motion picture house – demolished 1971
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Keith’s Bijou – 1889 – 1200 seats – 8th & Race – went from vaudeville to burlesque
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Kent – 1928-1989 – 2649 Kensington – 1932 seats – see People’s Theatre
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Keystone – 1911-1959 – 1026 Lehigh – 1884 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts – opened 2001 – includes 2500 seat Verizon Hall for the Philadelphia Orchestra and a 650 seat Perelman Theatre
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Kiralfy’s Alhambra Palace – 1876 – later became Broad St Theatre – demolished 1937
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Lailson’s Amphitheatre – 1797 – 5th & Locust
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Lawndale
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Leader – 1912-1968 – 4102 Lancaster – 988 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Liberty – 1910-1974 – 1425 Columbia – 1635 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Lincoln – 1919-1955 – Broad & Lombard – 1400 seats – opened as black theatre Dunbar featuring Lafayette Players
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Locust St – 1927-1982 – 411 Locust – 1580 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Logan – 1924-1964 – 4732 N Broad – 1894 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Long’s Varieties – 1859-1900 – 758 S 3rd
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Lubin’s Cineograph – 1898
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Lyceum – 1854-1918
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Lyric – 1905-1937 – Broad & Cherry – 1629 seats – demolished 1937 – twin to Adelphi
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Mann Music Centre – 1976 – 52nd & Parkside – 3934 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Mask and Wig – 1894 – 310 S Quince
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Mastbaum – 1929-1958 – 20th & Market – 4746 seats – originally to be called Jules – closed 1958 – demolished same year
PHILADELPHIA, PA – <a href=”http://mauckingbirdtheatreco.org”>Mauckingbird Theatre Company</a> - Philadelphia’s only professional theatre company devoted to gay-themed work
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Melodeon – 1854-1861 – 6th & Chestnut
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Merriam Theatre – see Sam S. Shubert
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Metropolitan Opera House – 1908 – Broad & Poplar – 3482 seats – originally called Philadelphia Opera House – was largest opera house in the world at that time – theatre remains unused
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Midway – 1932-1979 – Kensington & Allegheny – 2371 seats – closed 1977 – demolished 1979 – now fast food place
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Midtown – opened at Karlton location 1954 – became Midtown and twinned<p> – then home to legitimate theatre’s Prince Music Theatre in 1999
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Model – 1911-1958 – 425 South – 778 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – <a href=”http://mummersmuseum.com/”>Mummers Museum</a>
PHILADELPHIA, PA – <a href=”http://mummers.com/”>Mummers Parade</a> – you can’t get much more theatrical than this, see Fancies, and Fancy Brigades
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Municipal Auditorium – 1931 Civic Centre Blvd – 13,500 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Musical Fund Hall – 1824-1979 – 806 Locust – 800 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – National – 1837-1854 – 9th & Chestnut; 2nd National – 1874-1916 – 10th & Callowhill – 2415 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – New – see Chestnut St – Triumphs of Love or Happy Reconciliation 1795
PHILADELPHIA, PA – New Booth – 1724 Society Hill
PHILADELPHIA, PA – New Circus – 1809 – 9th & Walnut – renamed Olympic – 1820 became Walnut St Theatre – 1822 became Olympic again – 1827 became Philadelphia Theatre
PHILADELPHIA, PA – New Forrest – Walnut St – 1927
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Nixon – 1910-1984 – 28 S 52nd – 1870 seats – demolished 1984
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Nixon Grand – see Grand Opera House
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Northern Liberties – 1790-1791 – Front & Noble
PHILADELPHIA, PA – North Pole – 1909-1914 – 1426 South
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Old Academy Playhouse – 1932 – 3544 Indian Queen – 125 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Old Drury Theatre – see Chestnut Street Theatre – burned down in 1820
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Olympic Theatre – see New Circus; 2nd Olympic – 1873-1874 – 1224 Market – in shell of 1856 National Hall -2100 seats – fire 1874 destroyed; 3rd Olympic – early 1900s theatre used for burlesque
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Ongontz – 6033-35 Ogontz Ave – 1927
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Opera House – see Southwark
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Orpheum – 42 W Chelten Ave – 1912
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Palace – 1908-1971- 1214 Market – 1106 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Palm – 1887-1970 – Frankford & Norris – 1902 seats – became furniture store 1954 – demolished 1970
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Parisian Varieties – 1876 – 11th & Wood
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Park – 1889-1968 – Broad & Fairmont – 1694 seats – 1911 became burlesque house – demolished 1968; 2nd Park – 1876 – 17th & Ridge
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Pearl – 1927-1963 – 2047 Ridge – 1400 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Pennsylvania – 1836-1849 – 2nd & Coates
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Pennsylvania Museum – 1826 – 8th & Market
PHILADELPHIA, PA – People’s – 1890-1927 – 2649 Kensington – 2250 seats – 1928 gutted and Kent Theatre built
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Perelman Theatre – see Kimmel Center
PHILADELPHIA, PA – <a href=”http://www.philly-cabaret-theatre.com/”>Philadelphia Cabaret Theatre</a> – 507 South 8th Street – 99 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Philadelphia Grand Opera – 2 companies (Grand and Lyric) merged to form Opera Company of Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Philadelphia Lyric Opera 2 companies (Grand and Lyric) merged to form Opera Company of Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Philadelphia Musical Fund Society – 1820 – 1824 acquired church and became concert hall
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Philadelphia Opera House – see Metropolitan
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Philadelphia Playhouse – 1965 – 1991 Broad & Wood – 300 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Philadelphia School of Comic Opera
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Philadelphia School of Dramatist
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Philadelphia Theatre – see New Circus
PHILADELPHIA, PA – <a href=”http://www.phillytheatreco.com</a>Philadelphia Theatre Company</a> – name of its new home on the Avenue of the Arts will be the Suzanne Roberts Theater - Broad and Lombard Streets on the Avenue of the Arts – company is about to move to almost completed, 365-seat new home in October, 2007 – Feb 2007, two PTC premieres will open in Gotham – PTC had long outgrown its rented quarters in the small, uncomfortable jewel-box Plays & Players Theater, built in 1919
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Playhouse in the Park – 1952 – Fairmount Park – 1437 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Plays & Players – 1912 – 1714 Delancey – 336 seats – see Philadelphia Theatre Company
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Plaza – 1907-1955 – 2437 S Broad – 1472 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Plumsted’s Playhouse – 1749-1849 – demolished middle of the 19th century
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Port of History Museum Concert Hall – 1982 – Penn’s Landing – 500 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – <a href=”http://www.princemusictheater.org/”>Prince Music Theatre – 1412 Chestnut Street – opened 1999 as two venues, 446 seat theatre and smaller black box – founded 1984 as American Music Theater Festival – spent first 15 years without a home – found historic Midtown Theatre as home – Dreamgirls 2005 (3 month run-record for theatre)<p> – being auctioned off Oct 4/10 – converted to cinema during summer 2010
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Prince Theatre – Annenberg Center on University of Pennsylvania campus
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Prune Street – 1820-1830 – 518 Locust
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Public Ledger Concert – 1927-1930 – 6th & Chestnut – 400 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – <a href=”http://www.philly-cabaret-theatre.com/”>Philadelphia Cabaret Theatre</a> – 507 South 8th Street – 99 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Plumsted’s Playhouse – 1749-1849 – demolished middle of the 19th century
PHILADELPHIA, PA – <a href=”http://www.princemusictheater.org/”>Prince Music Theatre</a> – 1412 Chestnut Street – Dreamgirls 2005 (3 month run-record for theatre)
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Regent – 1913 – 1632 Market – 5 name changes – demolished 1980 – at one time the area housed Center, Studio, Milgram, Fox, Stage Door, Regency, Duke and Duchess theatres
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Rex Theatre
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Rexy – 1928-1975 – 517 South – 2063 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Rickett’s Amphitheatre/Art Pantheon – 1795-1799 – 6th & Chestnut – see Art Pantheon
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Riviera – 1914-1962 – 4411 Main – 1500 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Roberts Theatre – named instead for its leading donor, Suzanne Roberts, a local actress and philanthropist – Ms. Roberts’s signature, blown up to Rushmore size as if on a very large check, forms marquee on the building, which is part of a condominium development called Symphony House
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Royal – 1920 – 1524 South – 1200 seats – black motion picture house
PHILADELPHIA, PA – St. George’s Hall – 1891-1902 – 1300 Arch – 542 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Sam S. Shubert Memorial – see Horticultural Hall – 250 S Broad – 1918 – restored 1987 – 1991 renamed Merriam
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Sedgewick – 7137 Germantown – 1928 – 1636 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Seventh Street Opera (1867-1883) – 47 N
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Shubert Theatre – 1918 – 250 S Broad – 1868 seats – acquired by Academy of Music in 1972 and refurbished – Lolita My Love 1971
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Society Hill Playhouse – 1958 – 507 S 8th – 242 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Society Hill Theatre – 1759 – South & Hancock
PHILADELPHIA, PA – South Street Theatre – see Southwark Theatre
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Southwark Theatre – South St – first permanent playhouse erected in America – outside the centre of the city – opened in 1766 (sometimes known as South Street Theatre) – opened with The Provoked Wife 1766; Prince of Parthia 1767 – used as hospital 1777-78 – 1787 renamed Opera House – used until 1821 – partly destroyed by fire and demolished in 1912 – used as distillery prior to demolishment – Prince of Parthia 1767
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Spectrum – 1967 – Broad & Pattison – 19000 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Spruce
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Standard – 1889-1935 – 1124 South – 1500 seats; 2nd Standard – 1893-1918 – 4233 Frankford
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Stanley – 1921-1973 – 19th & Market – 2916 seats – when opened 1st Stanley became Stanton Theatre
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Strand – 1914-1971 – 3601 Germantown – 1679 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Stanton – 16th & Market – opened 1914 as Stanley
PHILADELPHIA, PA – State – 1929-1967 – 52nd & Chestnut – 3170 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Suzanne Roberts – see Philadelphia Theatre Company
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Tavern on Camac – 243 South Camac Street – cabaret venue
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Teatro delle Varieta – 1901 – 10325 8th
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Temple – 1885-1886 – 713 Chestnut – 2200 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Theatre of the Living Arts – 1908 – 334 South – 486 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Theatre on Society Hill – 1759 – South & Hancock – lasted only one season
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Tioga – 1915 – 3542 N 17th – 1400 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Towne Playhouse – 1914-1965 – 4159 Germantown – 500 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Town Hall – 1927-1983 – 150 N Broad – 1972 seats – built as Masonic Hall 1927 – sold 1938 and became theatre until 1970 when Masons purchased – demolished 1983 – 1900 seats – 700 seat auditorium on 6th floor and 1200 seat ballroom on 7th floor
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Trocadero – 1870 – 10th & Arch – 900 seats – originally Arch St Opera House – later other names – restored and reopened 1979
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Uptown – 1929 – 2240 N Broad – 2146 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – <a href=”http://www.ballparks.com/baseball/national/vetera.htm”>Vet Stadium</a> – opened April 1971 – demolished March 2004
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Victoria – 1909-1949 – 913 Market – 987 seats
*PHILADELPHIA, PA – <a href=”http://nealcomm.com/pi/theater.htm”>Walnut Street Theatre – 9th & Walnut – celebrates 200th year Feb 3/09 – 1054 seats – 1809 built as a circus but converted to drama in 1811 – still in use as the oldest theatre in America (1052 seats) – In 1812, Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette were in the house for a performance of Richard Sheridan’s
“The Rivals.” In 1820, Edmund Kean wowed ‘em with Shakespeare, introducing the practice — then regarded as ludicrous
– of the curtain call. And P.T. Barnum also got his start at WSTtheatre was built by Circus of Pepin and Breschard which was a French/Spanich circus which toured the US from 1807 until 1815 – remodelled 1970 – Jack Cade 1835, Leonor de Guzman 1853 – theatre announced it has acquired the complete parking lot east of the historic theatre, a major step toward the Philadelphia company expanding and opening a new playhouse by 2009, the 200th anniversary of the creation of the venue – unique 350-seat theatre-in-the-round that would allow the Walnut a space to produce musicals, new works, Shakespeare, and a wider range of family and youth programming – building would also have new rehearsal space and classrooms for popular theatre school – see New Circus – noteworthy legit debuts, writers Anita Loos, Philip Barry, Rogers & Hart and Lerner & Lowe all got
their feet wet at Walnut Street. Arthur Miller’s first play, “The Man Who Had All the Luck” flopped at the venue; Among other noteworthy legit debuts, writers Anita Loos, Philip Barry, Rogers & Hart and Lerner & Lowe all got
their feet wet at Walnut Street. Arthur Miller’s first play, “The Man Who Had All the Luck” flopped at the venue;
George M. Cohan jumped from vaudeville to theater; and Gibson Girl Evelyn Nesbit performed “The Wild Rose.” Integral to the theater’s history is the Booth family — starting with patriarch Junius Brutus Booth — followed by
Edwin Booth, “the Hamlet of the 19th century,” who bought the theater and whose career temporarily hit the skids
when he was arrested after the Abraham Lincoln assassination by his brother John Wilkes – Another dynasty central to Philadelphia theater lore and Walnut history is that of the Barrymores. And James O’Neill
debuted his famous role as the Count of Monte Cristo, a theatrical event immortalized in his son’s “Long Day’s Journey
Into Night.” Eugene O’Neill’s “Emperor Jones” bowed at the Walnut with Charles Gilpin – More
starry firsts included Douglas Fairbanks, W.C. Fields, Will Rogers, Sophie Tucker, Kirk Douglas and director Joshua
Logan, while Henry Fonda tried out in “Mister Roberts” in 1948 (having recently been discharged from the Navy, he wore
his own uniform onstage) –
George M. Cohan jumped from vaudeville to theater; and Gibson Girl Evelyn Nesbit performed “The Wild Rose.” 1947, Streetcar with Jessica Tandy, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden in Elia
Kazan’s production -
starry firsts included Douglas Fairbanks, W.C. Fields, Will Rogers, Sophie Tucker, Kirk Douglas and director Joshua
Logan, while Henry Fonda tried out in “Mister Roberts” in 1948
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Warden – 1938 – 1920 Spruce – 150 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Washington Hall – 1816 – 3rd & Spruce – 6000 seats – burned 1823 – restored
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Washington Museum – 1826-1827 – 48 Market
PHILADELPHIA, PA – William Penn – 1909-1931 – 4063 Lancaster – 3230 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – William Plumstead’s Warehouse – 1749
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Wilma Theatre
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Yiddish – 1887-1891 – Sauer & Hahn – 300 seats
PHILADELPHIA, PA – York Theater
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Zellerbach – 1971 – 37th & Walnut – 914 seats
PHOENIX, AZ – Cine Capri – 600 seats – 1966 –
closed 1998 PHOENIX, AZ – Orpheum Theater – Atmospheric style
PHOENIX, AZ -
Phoenix Star Theatre
PHOENIX, AZ -
Sombrero Playhouse
PHOENIXVILLE, PA – Colonial Theatre – 1916 –
Harry Houdini – restored
*PINE BLUFF, AR -
Saenger and Community
Theatres -
PIOCHE, NV – Thompson’s Opera House – abandoned
PITTSBURGH, PA – Academy of Music – early
1900s house playing burlesque
PITTSBURGH, PA – American Conservatory Theatre
(ACT) – founded 1964 – company moved in 1965 to Stanford University, then year
later took up residence at the Geary Theatre in San Francisco – in 1968 it added
a second house, the small Marines’ Memorial Theatre
PITTSBURGH, PA -
August Wilson Center for African
American Culture – opens Sept 17/09 – 980 Liberty Avenue – formerly African
American Cultural Center of Greater Pittsburgh – 486 seat theatre
PITTSBURGH, PA – Avenue Theatre – destroyed by
fire
PITTSBURGH, PA –
Benedum Center for the Performing Arts
PITTSBURGH, PA – Byham Theatre
PITTSBURGH, PA – Cabaret at Theatre Square -
opening in Theatre Square Complex – 246 seats – opening Nov 2004 with Forever
Plaid
PITTSBURGH, PA – Carnegie Institute of
Technology Theatre – 1914
PITTSBURGH, PA – Harris Theatre
PITTSBURGH, PA – O’Reilly Theatre
PITTSBURGH, PA – Pittsburgh Playhouse 1933 –
at first used the stage of a school, then performed in a converted speakeasy
before opening its own complex of three theatres in 1960 became associated with
Point Park College
*PITTSBURGH, PA -
Pittsburgh Public Theatre – 1933
*PITTSBURGH, PA -
Stanley Theatre
(Benedum Center) – 1928 built as The Stanley Theatre (2885 seats)
PITTSFIELD, MA -
Colonial Theatre – 11 South St – built
1903 – see also Barrington Stage Co – Sheffield, MA
PLAINVIEW, TX – Grenada Theater – Atmospheric
style – closed
PLANO, TX – Rover Dramawerks – founded 2000 – venue since 2006 Cox Building Playhouse & Courtyard
POCATELLO, ID -
Chief Theatre
POCONOS, NY – Lake Tamiment – resort – Jerome
Robbins choreographer 5 summers
PONCA CITY, OK – Poncan Theatre – 1927 – First
and Grand – restored
PORT CHESTER, NY – Capitol Theatre – built 1926 for movies – 1,835 seats – used for bands 1970-1976 – refurbished 2012
PORT JEFFERSON, NY – Theatre Three – built
1870 as vaudeville/movie house – Atmospheric style converted 1980 – 400 seats
PORTLAND, ME -
Dreamland Theatre
PORTLAND, ME -
Jefferson Theatre
PORTLAND, ME -
Keith’s Theatre
PORTLAND, OR – Clover Club – Ray Bourbon
PORTLAND, OR -
Hollywood Theatre
PORTLAND, OR – Oriental Theatre – 1920s movie
house – housed Oregon Symphony Orchesta
PORTLAND, OR –
Performing Arts Center
PORTLAND, OR -
Wilf’s
Restaurant – 800 NW Sixth Street – cabaret venue
PORT ORCHARD, WA – Port Orchard Twin – closed
2005
PORTSMOUTH, NH -
Music Hall – built 1876
*POUGHKEEPSIE, NY -
Collingswood Opera House (Bardavon Opera
House) – opened 1869 as the Collingwood Opera House
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY – Galleria 16 replacing older
plex in mall 2005
PREMONT, TX – RIG Theatre – abandoned
PRINCETON, NJ -
Alexander Hall
*PRINCETON, NJ -
McCarter Theatre – winner of Regional
Theatre Tony Award 1994 – Three years in the making, the Roger S. Berlind
Theatre will on Sept. 8/03 become a reality when the ribbon is cut and the
curtain raised on the McCarter Theatre’s new auditorium – 350-seat theatre,
which was build at the rear of the current building. It will be used by both the
McCarter—which will increase its number of performances and productions—and
Princeton’s theatre and dance program. The McCarter will continue to use its
1100-seat main stage
PRINCETON, NJ – Triangle Club
PROVIDENCE, RI – Dorrance Street Theatre –
1838
PROVIDENCE, RI -
E.F. Albee Theatre
PROVIDENCE, RI -
Majestic Theatre
PROVIDENCE, RI – Providence Performing Arts Center – 3100 seat venue
PROVIDENCE, RI – Providence Theatre – 1795
PROVIDENCE, RI -
Trinity Square Repertory Theatre – 1964
- moved 1973 to present home the Lederer Theatre (a renovated cinema with two
performance spaces – 500-800 Upstairs Theatre and 300 seat Downstairs Theatre)
(formerly the Majestic which opened 1917 as a vaudeville house – renamed Shubert
Majestic – between 1912 and 1919 eight new theatres opened – 1926 turned to
movie house winner of Regional Theatre Tony Award 1981 – summer rep initiated
1978
PROVIDENCE, RI – Westminister Theatre – early
1900s burlesque house
PROVINCETOWN, MA – Bayside Betsy’s – 177 Commercial
Street
PROVINCETOWN, MA – Beaconlight – 12 Winthrop
Street
PROVINCETOWN, MA -
Cape Cod Theatre Project -
10 year old summer theatre festival
PROVINCETOWN, MA -
Crown and Anchor – 247 Commercial
Street
PROVINCETOWN, MA -
Esthers – 86 Commercial Street
PROVINCETOWN, MA – Franizzi’s – 530 Commercial
Street
PROVINCETOWN, MA – Gifford House, Porch Side
Bar – 11 Carver Street
PROVINCETOWN, MA -
Mews – 429 Commercial Street
PROVINCETOWN, MA -
Provincetown Playhouse – Bound East for
Cardiff – 1916 – see Wharf Theatre
PROVINCETOWN, MA – Somerset House – 378
Commercial Street
PROVINCETOWN, MA -
Steve’s Alibi – 291 Commercial Street
PROVINCETOWN, MA – UU Meeting House – 236
Commercial Street
PROVINCETOWN, MA – Wharf Theatre – 1915 – a
converted fishhouse on a wharf – changed to Provincetown Playhouse
PROVINCETOWN, MA – White Wind Inn – 174
Commercial Street
PUEBLO, CO – DeRemer Opera House – 1885 –
became Wonderland 1891; Columbia 1893; DeRemer again 1897 – burned 1899
PUEBLO, CO – Grand Opera House – 1200 seats –
designed by Louis Sullivan – burned 1922
PUEBLO, CO – Montgomery Opera House – 1879 –
now parking lot
PUEBLO, CO -
Opera House
PUEBLO, CO – Turner Opera House/Pueblo – 1882
– closed 1886 as opera house and became variety house 1889
PULLMAN, IL – Opera House – 1866
R RACINE, WI – Venetian
Theater – Atmospheric style – closed & demolished
*RAHWAY, NJ –
Union County Arts Center (Rahway Theatre) – home of the Union County Arts
Center – built in 1928 (1310 seats)- currently home of the Westfield Symphony
RAINELLE, WV – Alpine Theatre
RALEIGH, NC -
Kennedy Theatre (Progress Energy Center for Performing Arts)
RALEIGH, NC -
North Carolina Theatre -
RATON, NM – El Raton Theater – Atmospheric
style
RAYMOND, WA – Raymond Theater – Atmospheric
style
READING, PA – Embassy Theater – Atmospheric
style – closed & demolished
RED BANK, NJ -
Count Basie Theatre – Kevin
Smith;
REMINGTON, IN – Rem Theatre
RENO, NV – Syufy Theater – Atmospheric style –
closed & demolished
RENSSELAER, IN – Ritz Theatre
RICHMOND, VA -
Barksdale Theatre – 49-year-old Equity affiliated company, embraced some
1,900 former TheatreVirginia subscribers who were showless this spring
RICHMOND, VA – Capitol Theater – Atmospheric
style – closed
*RICHMOND, VA -
Carpenter Center
for the Performing Arts – 600 E. Grace St – 2113 seats – designed in 1927 as
Loews Theatre for over 40 years – – Atmospheric style – by 1970s abandoned –
closed 1979 – in 1983 the building was converted to arts center – home to
Richmond Symphony, Richmond Ballet, and Virginia Opera – $100 million performing
arts complex planned for Richmond’s downtown, invited TheatreVirginia to be one
of the center’s anchor company – Construction is expected to be completed in
early 2007
RICHMOND, VA – Richmond Theatre – first
theatre built in 18th century at Twelfth and Broad Street – destroyed by fire
1811 with loss of 72 lives – Marshall opened 1818 – burnt down 1862 and was
replaced 1863 by New Richmond – demolished 1896
RICHMOND, VA -
Theatre IV
RICHMOND, VA -
Theatre Virginia – the major resident
Equity theatre in Richmond, VA, closed its doors Dec. 22, 2002 – TheatreVirginia
has operated inside the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts when it was called Virginia
Museum Theatre since its founding in 1955 – TheatreVirginia began life 48 years
ago as the Virginia Museum Theatre performing inside the Virginia Museum of Fine
Arts. In the early 1970s, the theatre began a full Equity company and in the
1980s became a completely independent entity from the Museum of Fine Arts
RICHMOND, VA – Virginia Museum Theatre – one
of Virginia’s two State Theatres – other being Barter – founded 1955 – 500 seats
RICHMOND HILL, NY – Jerome Theater –
Atmospheric style – closed
RIDGEFIELD, CT -
Ridgefield Playhouse
RIVERHEAD, Long Island, NY – Suffolk Theatre – 118 E Main St – built 1933 as movie house – Art Deco gem –
650 seats – stood empty since 1987 – reopening as home to plays, films, concerts
RIVERHEAD, NY – Vail-Leavitt Music Hall –
built 1881 as opera house – converted 2002 – 225 seats
RIVERHEAD, NY – Westbury Theatre – a 1927
timber-and-brick edifice on Post Avenue – recently sold in a bankruptcy auction
RIVERHEAD, NY – Lindenhurst Theater – former
single screen theater on the corner of Montauk Highway and Wellwood Avenue; it
remains shuttered – it closed in July 2002
RIVERSIDE, CA -
Fox Theatre – 1929 – 1,600
seats – Gone With the Wind 1939 – refurbished and reopened Jan 2010 as
performing arts venue – Fox Performing Arts Center
ROANOKE, VA -
Holina College Little
Theatre
ROANOKE ISLAND, NC -
Waterside Theatre
ROBSTOWN, TX – Gulf Theatre
ROCHESTER, NY –
Auditorium Theatre
ROCHESTER, NY -
Comix Cafe – 3450 Winton Place Plaza
ROCHESTER, NY -
Downstairs Cabaret Theatre – 20 Windsor Street – established 1983 as cabaret
venue
ROCHESTER, NY -
Eastman School of Music – 26
Gibbs Street – one of finest music schools in the world – established 1921 -
Eastman Theatre, Kilbourn Hall
ROCHESTER, NY -
Geva Theatre Center – 75 Woodbury Blvd
ROCHESTER, NY –
New Auditorium Theatre – 875 East Main Street -
ROCHESTER, NY -
Rochester International Jazz Festival
ROCHESTER, NY -
Shipping Dock Theatre – 31
Prince St @ University
ROCHESTER, NY -
Tample Theatre
ROCHESTER, MI – LORT – closing after 36 years
(June 4, 2003) – see
Meadowbrook Theatre
ROCHESTER, MI -
Meadowbrook
Theatre – Oakland University – space now occupied by Meadow Brook Theatre
Ensemble
ROCKFORD, IL -
Coronado Theatre –
Atmospheric style
ROCKLAND, ME -
Strand Theatre
*ROCKLAND COUNTY, NY -
Clarkstown Summer Theatre
ROCKPORT, MA – Shalin Liu Performance Center – 330 seat concert hall – replaced 1870s Haskins building
ROCKY FORD, CO – Grand Opera House – 1901 –
405 S. Main St – 655 seats
ROCKVILLE CENTRE, NY – Madison Theatre at Molloy College – 550 seats – opened November, 2011 – home to South Shore Symphony
ROHNERT PARK, CA – Joan and Sanford I. Weill Hall – Sonoma State University’s new 1,400 seat concert hall Donald and Maureen Green Music Center – music classrooms, rehearsal rooms and 250 seat recital hall – eventually will have a large outdoor pavillion
ROME, GA – Lyric Theatre – owned by Ma Rainey
ROUND TOP, TX -
Festival Concert Hall
RUTHERFORD, NJ -
Rivoli Theatre (Williams Center for the
Arts – built 1920s
RUTLAND, VT -
Playhouse
S *SACRAMENTO, CA -
Crest Theatre (Empress Theatre) – opened
1912 – 1949 where other theatres, The Empress and The Hippodrome, a vaudeville
house converted to films, as a movie theatre – closed in 1979 and restored in
1995
SACRAMENTO, CA – Music Theatre – summer
musicals 1950s
SACRAMENTO, CA –
Old Eagle Theatre – 1849
SAG HARBOR, LONG WHARF, NY -
Bay Street Theatre – opened 1991 – 300
seats
SAGUACHE, CO – Saguache Opera House – before
1921 – 182 seats
ST. CHARLES, IL – Arcada Theatre – 1927 – 900
seats – closed 2005
ST. CLOUD, MN -
Paramount Theatre (Sherman Theatre) -
1921 (1700 seats) as The Sherman – renamed Parmount in 1930 – by mid 1960s in
disrepair – fire in 1985
ST. LOUIS, MO – Delmar Air Dome
*ST. JOHN, NJ -
New Brunswick Cultural
Center – State Theatre
*ST. JOSEPH, MO -
Missouri Theatre -
1927 (1217 seats) – closed after being movie theatre – reopened 1979 as St.
Joseph’s Center for the Performing Arts
ST. LOUIS, MO – Alhambra Theatre – early 1900s
burlesque house
ST. LOUIS, MO – Ambassador Cinerama
ST. LOUIS, MO -
American Theatre
(Orpheum) – built 1917
ST. LOUIS, MO – Bates Theatre – 1851
ST. LOUIS, MO – Butler’s Standard Theatre –
early 1900s burlesque house circuit
ST. LOUIS, MO – De Bar’s Opera-House – see St.
Louis Varieties
ST. LOUIS, MO – Delmar Air Dome
*ST. LOUIS, MO -
Fox Theatre – opened 1929 – closed in
1978
ST. LOUIS, MO – Gaiety Theatre – Ray Bourbon
ST. LOUIS, MO -
Missouri Theatre
ST. LOUIS, MO -
Municipal Opera Theatre
ST.LOUIS, MO – Opera Theater of St. Louis
ST. LOUIS, MO -
Powell Symphony Hall (St. Louis Theatre)
- built 1926
ST. LOUIS, MO – St. Louis Municipal Opera
Company
ST. LOUIS, MO – St. Louis Municipal Outdoor
Theatre – opened in huge amphitheatre in city’s Forest Park in 1919
*ST. LOUIS, MO -
St. Louis
Shakespeare Company- 1919
ST. LOUIS, MO – St. Louis Theatre – 1837
ST. LOUIS, MO – St. Louis Varieties – 1852 –
changed to Wakefield’s Opera House in 1865 – in 1872 it was known as De Bar’s
Opera-House
ST. LOUIS, MO – Sun Theatre – abandoned
ST. LOUIS, MO – Tivoli Theatre – cinema
treasure
ST. LOUIS, MO – Wakefield’s Opera House – see
St. Louis Varieties
ST. PAUL, MN -
Arts and Science Center
ST. PAUL, MN -
Hamm Building
ST. PAUL, MN – Macalester College/Janet
Wallace Fine Arts Center – 1965
*ST. PAUL, MN -
Ordway Music Theatre – 1900 seat opera
house, 322 seat McKnight Theatre – opened 1985
ST. PAUL, MN -
Orpheum Theatre
ST. PAUL, MN – Renumbra Theater Company – founded 1976 – African American theatrical organization – 250 seat theatre inside a community center
ST. PAUL, MN -
Saint Paul Auditorium
ST. PAUL, MN – St. Paul Opera Association
ST. PAUL, MN – Uptown Theater – Atmospheric
style – closed & demolished
ST. PETERSBURG – Lehman Theatre – fire 1836 –
800 casualties
SALEM, NY –
Mettawee River Theatre Company – founded 1975
SALIDA, CO – Dickmann Opera House – 1882 –
burned 1888
SALIDA, CO – Salida Opera House – 1889 – 129 W
1st Street – now Unique Movie Theatre
SALT LAKE CITY, UT – American Theater
SALT LAKE CITY, UT – Capitol Theatre
SALT LAKE CITY, UT – Salt Lake City Theatre –
1862
SAN ANGELO, TX – Texas Theater – Atmospheric
style – closed – renovation
SAN ANTONIO, TX -
Arneson River Theater
SAN ANTONIO, TX – Aztec Theater – Atmospheric
style – closed – renovated
SAN ANTONIO, TX – Empire Theatre – 900 seats –
being restored as repertory theatre
SAN ANTONIO, TX -
Majestic Theatre – built
1929 – 226 E. Houston St – one of the earliest atmospheric theatres, 4000 seats
– Jack Benny – boarded up for several years – 1989 became home to San Antonio
Symphony
SAN ANTONIO, TX -
Municipal Auditorium
SAN ANTONIO, TX – Teatro de los Barrios – 1969
SAN ANTONIO, TX – Texas Theatre – façade restored
SAN ANTONIO, TX – Trinity University/Ruth
Taylor Theater- 1966
SAN DIEGO, CA – Academy Theatre – see MGM
Amphitheatre
SAN DIEGO, CA – Joan and Irwin Jacobs Center -
situated on University of California Campus encompassing Mandell Weiss Theatre,
Mandell Weiss Forum, Sheila and Hughes Potiker Black Box Theatre and Wagner
Dance Facility, formerly known as La Jolla Playhouse
SAN DIEGO, CA – La Jolla Playhouse – see Joan
and Irwin Jacobs Center
SAN DIEGO, CA – MGM Amphitheatre – built 1925
as Academy Theatre – closed
*SAN DIEGO, CA -
Old Globe Theatre- built 1935 -
opened in 1937 – 1978 arson’s fire destroyed theatre – 1982 new 581 seat Old
Globe Theatre opened – another arson 1984 (second in 6 years – cost theatre
500,000.00) and 612 seat Lowell Davies Festival Theatre opened in 1985; winner
of Regional Theatre Tony Award 1984; The Full Monty originated here 2000 – Old
Globe Theatre demolished a 224-seat in-the-round theater and replaced it with
… a 250-seat in-the-round theater – former Cassius Carter Centre Stage, opened
in 1969 in what originally was a tavern, has long provided the Globe a terrific
alternative to its 600-seat proscenium-style main stage and its 612-seat
open-air theater. The main stage can house big draws, such as the world
premieres of Neil Simon’s “Rumors” (1988) and “The Full Monty” musical (2000).
The outdoor stage is conducive to summer presentations of Shakespeare and other
classics – Its replacement, the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, retains those
qualities while enhancing presentation capabilities
SAN DIEGO, CA – San Diego Hilton/Del Mar -
15575 Jimmy Durante Boulevard, Del Mar
SAN DIEGO, CA -
San
Diego Theatres
SANDPOINT, ID – Panida Theater – 1927-1980 –
550 seats – restored
SAN FRANCISCO , CA – Actors Workshop – founded
1952 – after two years in a loft the company moved to abandoned warehouse – year
later took over Marine’s Memorial Theatre – gave performances at the Brussels
and Seattle World Fairs – after principals left in 1965 it fell apart
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – American Conservatory
Theatre (ACT) – originally the Columbia – 1910 – one of eight theatres built to
replace ones destroyed in earthquake and fire of 1906 and only one still in use
(1456 seats) – known in 1920s as Wilkes, then Lurie and 1928 became Geary
Theatre
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – American Theatre – 1851
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Baldwin’s Academy of Music
– 1876 – part of a hotel/theatre complex
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Bella Union – 1849 -
destroyed in earthquake and fire of 1906
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Black Cat Café – Jose
Sarria – drag revues
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Black Hawk – Cal Tjader,
Johnny Mathis
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – California Theatre – 1869
- demolished 1888 – rebuilt – destroyed 1906 in earthquake and fire
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -
Castro Theatre – 1922 – 1875
seats – Charles Pierce 1980
*SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Club Fugazi – Beach
Blanket Babylon – transferred from Savoy Tivoli
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Cockettes – experimental
theatre group – Sylvester 1970
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – - 121 Spear Street –
cabaret venue
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Curran Theatre – Zenda
1963
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – El Capitan Theatre
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Empire Plush Room – see
Plush Room
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Finocchio’s – (1937-1999)
– Lower Broadway – opened 1936 – headliners Lucian Phelps, Don McLean and Ray
Bouron
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – (Ann’s) 440 Club – Johnny
Mathis
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Fox Theatre – 1929 – 4651
seats – closed February 1963 – demolished
*SAN FRANCISCO, CA -
Geary Theatre (ACT American Conservatory
Theatre) – 1909 – theatre suffered damage in 1989 earthquake and took 7
years to rebuild – ACT founded in Pittsburgh in 1964 – moved to San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Gilded Cage – Charles
Pierce 1962
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -
Golden Gate Theatre
- built 1922 – Hairspray 2004; South Pacific (tour) 2009;
*SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Herbst Theatre – 401 Van
Ness Avenue
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Hungry i+ – Barbra
Streisand
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Jenny Lind Theatres, I –
opened 1850 – destroyed by fire; II opened 1851 and destroyed by fire; III
opened 1852 or thereabouts
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Jose’s Cabaret & Juice
Joint
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Loew’s Warfield –
1922-present – now venue for concerts
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -
Magic Theatre – 42-year-old troupe
that prizes risk over commercialism, has announced on its website that it is
$600,000 in debt and will shut its doors Jan. 9, 2009, unless it raises $350,000
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Maguire’s Opera House –
1856
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -
Marine Memorial Theatre -
Robert Nederlander Jr., prexy of Nederlander Worldwide, said he is excited about
the circuit’s format, which he feels is underserved and filled with box office
potential – Other initial properties include the Post Street and Marines
Memorial Theaters in San Francisco, and the Proscenium Theater in Sarasota, Fla
- he is aggressively looking to expand the circuit
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Metropolitan Theatre –
1853
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Mitchell Brothers
O’Farrell Theatre – 1969
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Original Joe’s Cabaret -
144 Taylor Street – cabaret venue
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -
Orpheum (Pantages)
- built 1926
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -
Palace Theatre – home of the
infamous Cockettes – late 1950s to 1972/73
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -
Plush Room – 940 Sutter Street – former
1920s speakeasy in the York Hotel isn’t opulent, but performers love it –
Charles Pierce 1954; Tony and Olivier Award winner Patti LuPone, who just
triumphed at City Center in the Encores! mounting of Can-Can, will reopen The
Plush Room this spring – From May 18-30/04, the former star of Evita will play
the city’s best-known cabaret, which will undergo a major renovation beginning
March 1 – will reopen in September/05 with a brand-new act from Tony Award
winner Linda Lavin; followed by Rita Moreno, Debby Boone, Bruce Vilanch and Mary
Wilson
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -
Post Street Theatre – 450 Post St
- 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee 2005 – Robert Nederlander Jr., prexy of
Nederlander Worldwide, said he is excited about the circuit’s format, which he
feels is underserved and filled with box office potential. Other initial
properties include the Post Street and Marines Memorial Theaters in San
Francisco, and the Proscenium Theater in Sarasota, Fla. He said he is
aggressively looking to expand the circuit
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Purple Onion – 240
Columbus Avenue, San Francisco – this club kicked off the careers of Phyllis
Diller, and many others in the 1950s SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Rio Theater –
Atmospheric style – closed & demolished
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – San Francisco Light Opera
Company
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – San Francisco Minstrels –
founded early 1850s – troupe moved to New York in 1865 – survived until 1883
*SAN FRANCISCO, CA -
San Francisco Theatres – Orpheum
(1926) (Market Street @ Hyde); Fox – 1920 – curtain cost $8,900 (1929) – went
dark in 1932 Golden Gate (1922) (1 Taylor St. – formerly RKO Orpheum); and
Curran (1922) (445 Geary Blvd)
*SAN FRANCISCO, CA – San Francisco Mime Troupe
- troupe founded 1959 – winner of Regional Theatre Tony Award 1987 (1999 40th
Anniversary
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – San Francisco Opera
Company – 1923 – War Memorial Opera House – 1932
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – San Francisco Opera House
*SAN FRANCISCO, CA -
San Francisco Performing Arts Library and
Museum – 401 Van Ness Avenue, 4th Floor
*SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Savoy Tivoli Theatre -
Beach Blanket Babylon 1974 – transferred to Club Fugazi
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – SF Jazz Center – opened January 2013 – Robert N. Miner Auditorium – 700 seats – first stand alone center for jazz
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Star Nickelodeon
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – State Theater –
Atmospheric style – closed
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -
Teatro
Zinzanni Theatre – Pier 29 on The Embarcadero at Battery – cabaret venue
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Telenews
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Theatre on the Square -
Forever Tango 1994 (92 weeks)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -
Tivoli Opera House -
built 1872-1875 – 1878 a larger theatre built – destroyed by the 1906 fire
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -
Trocadero
Transfer – most popular gay after hours dance club in San Francisco from
its opening in December 1977 to the early 1990s. It was located at 520 4th St.
at Bryant in the SoMa neighborhood. In 2000 a new owner took over, name was
changed to Glas Kat, and the club was remodeled
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – UA Coronet – closing 2005
– opened 1949
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -
Valencia Theatre
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Venetian Room – Fairmont
Hotel – Charles Pierce 1954
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Wade’s Opera House – 1876
SAN FRANCISOCO, CA -
War Memorial Opera
House – built 1932 – 3252 seats – damaged 1989 in earthquake – renovated
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – York Hotel – see Plush
Room
SANIBEL, FL -
Pirate Playhouse
SAN JON, NM – State Theatre
*SAN JOSE, CA -
American Musical Theatre of San Jose -
cancelled 2009 season and ceased operation
SAN JOSE, CA – Teatro de la Gente – 1970
SAN JOSE, CA -
Center for
the Performing Arts – 255 Almaden Blvd
SAN JOSE, CA -
Victory Theatre -
damaged by earthquake
SAN JUAN, PR -
see Puerto Rico
SAN LEANDRO, CA -
Englander
Pub – 101 Parrott Street – cabaret venue
*SAN LORENZO, CA -
Lorenzo Theatre – 1947
SAN LUIS OBISPO -
Fremont Theater
SAN MATEO, CA – Palm Theatre – closed 2005
SAN SIMEON, CA -
Hearst Castle Theatre
SANTA BARBARA, CA – Arlington Theatre –
Atmospheric style
SANTA BARBARA, CA – Lobero Theatre
SANTA BARBARA, CA – State Theatre
SANTA BARBARA, CA – Teatro de la Esperanza –
1971 – University of California
SANTA CRUZ, CA -
Opera House – middle of barren desert – erected 1956 – simple plan – current
theatre is the 3rd one built – originally open air, now roofed – now in 50th
anniversary season (2006)
SANTA FE, NM – Santa Fe Opera – 1957
SANTA MARIA, CA – PCPA.org – My Fairytale (m & l Stephen Schwartz)
SANTA MONICA, CA – 18th Street Arts Complex
SANTA ROSA, CA -
Wells Fargo Center for the Arts
SARASOTA, FL –
Asolo State Theatre –
1965 – State Theatre of Florida – also touring company – Asolo Stage Two opened
1977 – Original theatre built 1798 in the Italian town Asolo. 1857
refurbishment. 1929 demolished in favour of a new cinema building, while the
auditorium interior decoration was stored in a warehouse. 1949 auditorium
interior bought and moved to Sarasota, Florida, by the estate of John Ringling.
Originally installed into one of the galleries of the Ringling Museum. 1957
moved into a specially constructed theatre building. Summer theatre festival
founded by Florida State University in 1960. Home of the “Asolo Theater Company”
and the “Asolo Opera Company” from 1966 to 1989. 1989 alterations. Currently
used for educational programmes by the Ringling Museum. 320 seats. In 1989, the
“Asolo Opera Company” moved into the “Sarasota Opera House”. In 1990 the “Asolo
Theatre Company” moved into the new “Asolo Center for the Performing Arts”,
where another old world theatre auditorium (a 1903 opera house from Dunfermline,
Scotland) was implemented as “Harold E. and Esther M. Mertz Theatre”. Total
capacity: 1600 seats
SARASOTA, FL – Golden Apple Dinner Theater – 25 North Pineapple Ave – may have to close re financial woes June 2011
SARASOTA, FL -
Proscenium
Theater – Robert Nederlander Jr., prexy of Nederlander Worldwide, said he is
excited about the circuit’s format, which he feels is underserved and filled
with box office potential. Other initial properties include the Post Street and
Marines Memorial Theaters in San Francisco, and the Proscenium Theater in
Sarasota, Fla. He said he is aggressively looking to expand the circuit
SARASOTA, FL – Ringling Brothers, Barnum and
Bailey Circus – established 1918 – permanent home
SARASOTA, FL -
Sarasota Opera House –
Atmospheric style
SAUGATUCK, MI -
Mason Street Warehouse
- three-year-old resident Equity house – MSW company, housed in a 181-seat black
box within the Saugatuck Center for the Arts (a former pie factory), focuses on
new musical theatre with contemporary content
SCHENECTADY, NY – Plaza Theater – Atmospheric
style – closed & demolished
*SCHENECTADY, NY -
Proctor’s Theatre – 1912 – vaudeville and
movies (1675 seats) – renamed Wedgewood, and then Erie
SCOTIA, CA -
Redwood Theatre
SCOTTSDALE, AZ – Kachina Theater
SCOTTSDALE, AZ – Theatre 4301 – 4301 N.
Scottsdale Road – theater is located in the former IMAX facility, which has been
closed since 1998. Since then, it had been trashed and vandalized, with marble
flooring and seating removed – workers labored since November to refurbish the
theater at a cost of close to $500,000
SCRANTON, PA -
Poli Theatre -
built 1907
SEATTLE, WA -
ACT – 700 Union St
SEATTLE, WA – Alice B – closed
SEATTLE, WA – Coliseum Theater – 1916 – now
Banana Republic store
SEATTLE, WA – Comique Theatre – dancehall
adjoining theatre
SEATTLE, WA – Contemporary heatre – 423 seat –
1965
SEATTLE, WA -
Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley Restaurant and
Nightclub – With big name acts such as Nancy Wilson, Cleo Lane and Lionel
Hampton, the downtown Seattle club has long attracted a loyal following. “It’s
the best-known jazz spot in Seattle.”
SEATTLE, WA -
Empty Space Theatre – which shut down
production in October 2004 — has reached its emergency fundraising goal of
$350,000 and will be able to reopen its doors, according to the Seattle Times -
closed
*SEATTLE, WA -
Fifth Avenue Theatre – 1308 5th Avenue -
built 1926 as vaudeville house – 2115 seats – 1978 closed and was destined to
the fate of the Metropolitan and the Orpheum – renovated 1979
SEATTLE, WA – Garden of Allah – Ray Bourbon
SEATTLE, WA -
Intiman Theatre – Seattle Center, 201
Mercer St – Light in the Piazza 2003 – Tony Award for Regional Theatre 2006 – 2011-12 season cancelled due to funding – to reopen in 2012
SEATTLE, WA -
- Jazz Alley
- 2033 Sixth Avenue
SEATTLE, WA – Lewis & Clark Theater –
1958-2004 – 2200 seats – later divided into 7 screens – now closed
SEATTLE, WA -
Lusty Lady -
near Pike Place Market – formerly Sultan Theatre – now female owned dance
establishment closing April 2010
SEATTLE, WA – Martin Theater – 1999 – makeover
to Seattle Cinerama
SEATTLE, WA -
Moore
Theatre – built 1907 – see also Paramount Theatre
SEATTLE, WA – Northgate Theater – 1951-present
– closed 2002 – now concert venue
SEATTLE, WA – On the Boards
SEATTLE, WA – Pacific Northwest Festival –
began 1964
SEATTLE, WA -
Pantages Theatre
SEATTLE, WA – Paradise Club – Jose Sarria –
drag revues
*SEATTLE, WA -
Paramount Theatre – opened 1928 (3000
seats), Moore (2436 seats) – opened 1907 – has been The President Theatre, The
Old Orpheum, and The Moore Egyptian – oldest remaining theatre in Seattle -
remodelled in 1955 with a present capacity of 1419 seats
SEATTLE, WA – Seattle Childrens Theatre
SEATTLE, WA – Seattle Cinerama Theater – 1963
– restored & reopened
SEATTLE, WA – Seattle Fringe Festival – closed
*SEATTLE, WA -
Seattle Repertory Theatre – 1963 – 895
seats – Seattle Centre Playhouse – 155 Mercer St – King Lear 1963 – winner of
Regional Theatre Tony Award 1990
SEATTLE, WA – Sullivan-Considine Circuit –
vaudeville chain founded 1902 – known as the most ethical operation in the
business – extended as far east as Louisville
SEATTLE, WA – Teatro del Piojo – 1970
SEATTLE, WA -
Teatro Zin Zanni – 222 Mercer St -
cirque themed dinner theatre
SEATTLE, WA -
Theater Schmeater -
SECAUCUS, NJ – Xanadu 26 – 6500 seats –
additional outdoor rooftop screen and helipad – part of Mills Corp project
SEEKONK, MA – Showcase Cinema 8
SHAKOPEE, MN -
Stage Coach Bella Union
Opera House
*SHARON, PA -
Columbia Theatre – 1922
SHEFFIELD, MA -
Barrington Stage Co – (BSC)— the
Sheffield, MA theatre company that presented the world premiere of The 25th
Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee has found a new home, the Berkshire Music Hall
in downtown Pittsfield to begin in summer 2006 – Berkshire Music Hall, located
at 30 Union Street, opened in 1912 as the Union Square Theatre – featuring
vaudeville acts, stage shows and silent pictures, and in 1928 began showing
“talking pictures.” In 1967 the theatre was sold and renamed The Paris, which
featured first-run movies through the 1970′s. The theatre was then purchased by
the Berkshire Public Theatre in 1983. A non-profit repertory theatre company
performed there through 1994
SHELBY, TX – Fox Theatre – abandoned
SHOWBOATS – floating theatres of North
American rivers – Mississippi and Ohio – dating from about 1817 – Noah’s Ark
1817; Floating Palace 1831-1847; Floating Circus Palace 1851; New Sensation
Water Queen 1885 (used in filming of Showboat); Kate Adams 1898 (used in film
Uncle Tom’s Cabin) – burnt; Cotton Blossom; Princess; Golden Road; Hollywood;
Wonderland; Sunny South; Floating Hippodrome; Majestic; America; River Maid;
Water Queen – last was Dixie Queen – launched 1939
SIERRA BLANCA, TX – Tate Theatre – abandoned
SILVER PLUME, CO – Bruce Opera House – 1890 –
demolished 1917-20
SILVER SPRING, MD – AFI Silver Theater &
Cultural Center – 2003 – 400 seats – restored 1938
SILVER SPRING, MD – Silver Theater 1100 seats
– closed 1985 – reopened
*SILVER SPRING, MD -
Silver Theatre – 1938 – restored 1984
SILVERTON, CO – Grand Opera House – 1892 –
demolished
SILVERTON, CO – Pascoe Opera House – 1905 –
demolished 1940s
SILVERTON, OR – Palace Theater – 1935 – fire
1935 – original Opera House – 1905 showed films 1919 as Palace
SINTIN, TX – Rialto Theatre SKOWHEGAN, ME –
Lakewood Theater – 1901
– 1070 seats
SKOKIE, IL -
Northlight Theatre – 9501 Skokie Blvd -
2009/10 is 35th season
SMITHFIELD, UT – Main Theatre – abandoned
SMITHTOWN, NY – Performing Arts Center – built
1932 as single screen theater – converted 2002 – 361 seats
SOMERVILLE, MA – Somerville Theater – 55 Davis
Square – 900 seats – 1914 – during 1920s Busby Berkeley directed plays &
musicals here
SOUTH BEND, IN -
Morris Performing Arts Centre
(Palace Theatre) – built 1921 as Palace Theatre featured Ziegfeld Follies/Amos & Andy/Hudini/Bette Davis/Bing Crosby/Elvis Presley/Frank Sinatra – late 1950s talks of being demolished – reopened as Morris Civic Auditorium – 1998 restoration and in 2000 reopened as Morris Performing Arts Centre – 2,564 seats – home to South Bend Orchestra and Broadway Theatre League
SOUTHBRIDGE, MA – Strand Theater – Atmospheric
style – closed & demolished
SPARKS, NV -
Nugget Circus Room Theatre
Restaurant
SPRINGFIELD, MA – Paramount Theater – now
Hippodrome
SPRINGFIELD, MO – Skydome – 600 seats 1911 –
portable canvas roof
STAMFORD, CT – Avon Theater Film Center – 1939
– theatre divided 1979 – restored
STAMFORD, CT – Stamford Center for the Arts -
750 seats
STAMFORD, CT -
Stamford Theatre Works – founded
1988 – to close Oct 2008
STEPHENSON, MI -
Tivoli Theatre
STERLING, CO – Sterling Opera House – 1888 –
425 seats – demolished 1910
STERLING, IL – Sterling Theatre – abandoned
STOCKBRIDGE, MA – Berkshire Music Center Opera
School (Tanglewood)
*STOCKBRIDGE, MA -
Berkshire Playhouse – started 1934
- as of 2003 75th Anniversary season
STOCKBRIDGE, MA – Desisto/Stockbridge Cabaret
- Route 183 -
STOCKBRIDGE, MA -
DESISTO SCHOOL – will close it’s
doors April 16/04. For 27 years, the late Michael A. Desisto built a school that
helped young people. Within the framework of their education, the students
participated in the school’s annual STOCKBRIDGE SUMMER CABARET SERIES, learning
technical arts and working with the great performers who graced the stage.
Sadly, this series and the school is now part of history. More importantly, it
is sadder that the students have lost their home in The Berkshires. It has been
reported that, with a resounding voice of support for the vision and the process
of recovery the school affords its families, the parental body voted to continue
the academic year at the DESISTO SCHOOL campus in San Miguel, Mexico
STOCKBRIDGE, MA -
Unicorn Theatre – see Berkshire
Playhouse
STONEHAM, MA -
–
Stoneham Theatre – 395 Main Street – cabaret venue
STONINGTON, ME – Stonington Opera House -
School Street – built 1886 – 1000 seats – ravaged by fire 1910 – 1912 new one
built seating 250 – used for roller skating, dances, recitals, games and movies
- derelict – restored and reopened July 2000
STRASBURG, VA – Home Theatre
STRATFORD, CO –
American Shakespeare
Festival Theatre
– 1955 –1534 seats – 1955 – opened with Julius
Caesar 1955 – in 1977 Connecticut Centre for the Performing Arts established
SUNDANCE, UT -
Sundance Theatre – 880-seat outdoor Eccles Theatre and the 250-seat
Alexandra Monroe King Stage
SUN VALLEY, ID -
Opera House
SYRACUSE, NY -
B.F. Keith’s Theatre
SYRACUSE, NY -
Grand Opera Building
SYRACUSE, NY – Riviera Theater – Atmospheric
style – closed & demolished
*SYRACUSE, NY -
Syracuse Stage – founded 1974 – old
movie theatre Regent and renamed to John D. Archbold Theatre (499 seats)
TAHLEQUAH, OK – Dream Theatre – abandoned
TALLADEGA, AL -
Martin Theatre
TAMPA, FL -
Tampa Bay Performing Arts
Center
TAMPA, FL -
Tampa Theatre –
Atmospheric style
TAMPA BAY, FL – Moroccan Palace Theatre –
Busch Gardens – 1,100 seats
*TANGLEWOOD, MA -
Tanglewood
Festival – Mass.- founded 1934 – summer home of the Boston Symphony – Seiji Ozawa Hall opened 1994
TARRYTOWN, NY -
Tarrytown Music Hall – 13 Main
Street – built 1885 – 800 seats
TAZWELL, TX – Clinch Theatre
TELLURIDE, CO -
Sheridan Opera House – built
1913 as Segerberg Theatre – 240 seats – restored
TERRE HAUTE, IN – Indiana Theater –
Atmospheric style – renovation
TOMBSTONE, AZ –
Bird Cage Theatre
– adjoined a dance hall
TOOELE, UT -
Ritz Theatre
TOGUS, ME -
National Soldiers Home
Theatre
TOLEDO, OH – Paramount Theater – Atmospheric
style – closed & demolished
*TOPEKA, KS -
Jayhawk State Theatre of Kansas (Jayhawk
Theatre) – 1926
*TOPPENISH, WA -
Liberty Theatre – 1915 as a
stage theatre (800 seats) – 1984 theatre closed and considered for demolition
TRAVERSE CITY, MI
Cherry Country Playhouse -
started in a tent 1955 – moved to Park Place Hotel in Traverse City – moved to
current venue Fraventhal Center for the Performing Arts in Mukegon in 1991 (1750
seats)- will cease operations Oct 2003
TRAVERSE CITY, MI – City Opera House – 106 E.
Front St – 1892 – 1200 seats
TRAVERSE CITY, MI – Dreamland
TRAVERSE CITY, MI – Lyric – burned 1948 and
renamed State 1949
TRAVERSE CITY, MI – Steinberg Opera House –
burned to ground
TRINIDAD, CO – Jaffa Opera House – 1882 –
closed 1909
TROY, NY – Gaity Theatre – early 1900s
burlesque circuit theatre
TUCSON, AZ – Fox Tucson Theater – 1316 seats –
1930 – was to be called Tower Theater – closed 1974 – restored
TULSA, OK -
Brady Theatre – built 1914
TULSA, OK – Delman Theater – Atmospheric style
– closed & demolished
TULSA, OK – Ritz Theater – Atmospheric style –
closed & demolished
*TULSA, OK -
Tulsa Performing Arts Center – (Chapman
Music Hall – 2367 seats; John H. Williams Theatre – 437 seats; Liddy Doenges
Theater – 100-300 seats; Studio II – 100-200 seats
TUSCALOOSA, AL – Bama Theater – Atmospheric
style
UNIONDALE, N.Y. – Nassau Coliseum
U UNION HILL, NJ – Twin and
State Capitol – 2 built inside one structure
UNIONTOWN, PA -
State Theatre Center for the Arts
(State Theatre) – built 1922
UNIVERSAL CITY, CA – Cineplex Odeon – 1987 to
present
UNIVERSAL CITY, CA – Universal City Cinemas
URBANA, IL – University of Illinois/Krannert
Center for the Performing Arts (Festival Theatre/Playhouse) – 1969 – consists of
4 indoor and one outdoor theatre – Great Hall (2092 seats); Festival Theatre
(979); Playhouse (678); Studio Theatre (200) and outdoor amphitheatre (560)
UTICA, NY -
Stanley Theatre
UVALDE, TX -
Uvalde Grand Opera – 1891
V VAIL, CO – Gerald R. For
Amphitheatre
VALLEY STREAM, NY – Sunrise Cinemas – 1979
VALLEY STREAM, NY – Sunrise Drive-In – 1936
VALPARAISO, IN -
Memorial Opera House
*VANDERGRIFT, PA -
Casino Theatre – 100 years old -
oldest active theatre in S.W. Pennsylvania
VENTURA, CA – Rubicon Theater – Fascinating Rhythms, a new ballroom dance event 2010;
VICTOR, CO – Victor Opera House – ca 1896 –
burned 1899
VICTOR, CO – Victor Opera House – ca 1902 –
1200 seats – burned 1920
VICTORVILLE, CA – Bear Valley 10 to close,
Cinemark 16 opening at the Mall of Victor Valley 2005
VIENNA, VA –
Barns of Wolf Trap – It may be a stretch to call the 350-seat auditorium a
nightclub, but the venue does showcase well-known cabaret singers from time to
time. Plus, the setting, in two 18th-century barns that were moved from Upstate
New York and reassembled on rolling countryside in Northern Virginia, is one of
a kind
VIRGINIA, VA -
Dead Theatres
Online Virginia
VIRGINIA CITY, NV –
Piper’s Opera House – 1863
*VISALIA, CA -
Fox Theatre -
opened 1930 – showed films for over 40 years (1200 seats) – 1976 divided into 3
theatres – Nov. 1996 theatre closed
WABASH, IN
Eagles Theatre -
built 1905
*WALDOBORO, ME – Waldo Theatre – 1936 (300
seats) – renovated 1986
*WALLINGFORD, CT -
Oakdale Theatre – 1954 – 1200 seats,
increased to 2400 seats and then to 3200 seats by 1972
WARRENSBURG, MO – Star Theatre
*WASHINGTON, DC -
Arena Stage – Washington 1950 –
refurbished 1961 – 827 seats – groups lst production, She Stoops to Conquer was
given in cinema until 1955 when moved to old brewery, the Old Vat – 1st
production in Arena Stage was Caucasian Chalk Circle – 2nd theatre Kreeger
opened 1971 (514 seats) – basement converted 1976 into old Vat Room (180 seats)
– Great White Hope 1967; Raisin 1973 – first regional theatre to receive a Tony
award 1976 – Arena Stage is undergoing a $100 million capital campaign and
expansion and renovations, calling for structural and cosmetic changes to the
theatre’s complex at Sixth and Maine in the Southwest section of Washington, DC.
Arena’s square footage will double with the new plan, construction begins in
fall 2005 Arena Stage will continue producing at borrowed spaces around town
while construction continues. Announced for the project is the creation of a
third new space, The Cradle, a 200-seat flexible black box theatre that will be
used exclusively for new American works and readings. The famed in-the-round
Fichandler stage (named for founding director Zelda Fichandler) will have its
seating capacity reduced from 816 to 650 – 514-seat Kreeger Theatre will be
updated – common lobby which will unite all three performance spaces. “Spacious
workspace” for rehearsals, classes, production shops, community outreach and
administrative services – 21 apartments will be added above the Cradle for
actors and artists – broke ground on the $120 million Mead Center – Optimism surrounds the re-opening of the expanded and renovated new Arena Stage headquarters so it’s only fitting that Oklahoma!, which brims with optimism, is the opening show of the 2010-2011 season
WASHINGTON, DC – Avalon Theater – 5612
Connecticut Ave – 1200 seats – 1923 – restored 2003 – former Cineplex Odeon 1988
WASHINGTON, DC -
Beck and Grand
Theatres
WASHINGTON, DC -
Blues Alley – 1073 Wisconsin Avenue NW -
jazz supper club, located in an 18th-century carriage house in the city’s
historic Georgetown neighborhood, sports 1920s and ’30s jazz club ambience -
37-year-old Washington institution has played host to jazz legends such as Dizzy
Gillespie, Charlie Byrd and Sarah Vaughan
WASHINGTON, DC – City Assembly Rooms
WASHINGTON, DC -
- Corcoran
Gallery – 500 17th Street NW – cabaret venue
WASHINGTON, DC -
Dead Theatres
Online Washington D.C.
WASHINGTON, DC – Earle Theater – today is
Warner Theater
WASHINGTON, DC – Eisenhower Theatre – 1142
seats – part of John F. Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts – 1971 – opened
with Doll’s House
WASHINGTON, DC – Filene Center – National Park
for the Performing Arts, Wolf Trap’s majestic Filene Center provides the
Washington, D.C. metropolitan area with a magical outdoor venue for world-class
performances of every genre. Operated in partnership with the National Park
Service, the Filene Center houses over 90 performances annually from late May to
early September
WASHINGTON, DC – Folger Theatre Group – 1970 –
Folger Shakespeare Memorial
Library
*WASHINGTON, DC -
Ford’s Theatre – 1861 –
originally Baptist Church – opened as Ford’s Atheneum – burned down in 1862 and
rebuilt (1700) opened in 1863 as Ford’s New Theatre and on April 14, 1865,
Abraham Lincoln was shot during performance of Our American Cousin (1865); War
Department purchased the theatre – became an office building and storage
facility – part of the building collapsed in 1890s killing 22 government
employees – January 1968 it reopened as a theatre – reopened Feb 2009 after
extensive renovation
WASHINGTON, DC – Harman Center for the Arts –
see Shakespeare Theatre
*WASHINGTON, DC -
John F. Kennedy Centre for the Performing
Arts/National Cultural Center of the United States – built 1958 –
refurbished 1971 – 3 major theatres – Opera House (2318), Eisenhower Theatre
(1142), Concert Hall (2750) and three small houses Terrace Theatre (512), and
Theatre Lab Cabaret (120-see separate listing)- Family Theatre opened Dec 9/05
in 320 seat space previously occupied by American Film Institute – each year the
Kennedy Center Honors are presented
WASHINGTON, DC – Lincoln Theater
WASHINGTON, DC – Loew’s Circle – closed 2005
WASHINGTON, DC – Lyceum Theatre – early 1900s
burlesque house circuit
*WASHINGTON, DC -
MacArthur
Theatre – closed 1997
WASHINGTON, DC – Metropolitan Music Hall –
Annie Hindle 1868
WASHINGTON, DC – National Theatre – 1835 –
Desiree 1884; Mata Hari 1967
*WASHINGTON, DC -
Naylor Theatre
WASHINGTON, DC – National Park for the
Performing Arts – see Filene Center
WASHINGTON, DC – National Theatre – 1835 -
burned in 1845 and since then 5 theatres all called National on same lot – next
3 burned 1857/1873/1885 fifth opened in 1885 and closed in 1922 when present
theatre erected – used for films from 1947-1952)
WASHINGTON, DC – Oprah Winfrey Theater – 1000 Jefferson Dr SW – 350 seats – part of Smithsonian Institute to open late 2015 in the African American Museum with donation from Ms. Winfrey
WASHINGTON, DC – Penthouse Theatre – 1932 -
arena style theatre built from the penthouse of an old hotel into a theatre in
the round seating 60 people – 1935 theatre moved to larger quarters in a lodge
near the campus of University of Washington and in 1940 a more permanent theatre
was built on campus
*WASHINGTON, DC – Shakespeare Theatre – 450
7th St. NW – The new Harman Center for the Arts is being constructed for
$77-million and will include the flexible 800-seat Sidney Harman Theatre, to be
located on F Street, between Sixth and Seventh Streets NW – Theatre’s existing
home, the 451-seat Lansburgh Theatre, at 450 7th Street NW, will continue to
operate making the company a two-venue operation, with music, dance and other
events — as well as Shakespeare plays — programmed into the new theatre – the
Shakespeare Theatre will alter its name in the spring of 2004 to Shakespeare
Theatre Company – 2012 Tony Award
WASHINGTON, DC – Stanton Art Theater –
Atmospheric style – closed
*WASHINGTON, DC -
Studio Theatre – and Second Stage – P
Street NW – founded in 1977 – expanding with a 9.5 million renovation to create
3rd performance space by moving into 2 adjoining buildings at 1507 and 1509,
14th Street at P Street at their Logan Circle location – expanded dressing rooms
for the existing Milton and Mead Theatres will be created in the 1507 building
WASHINGTON, DC – Theatre Comique – early 1900s
burlesque circuit theatre
WASHINGTON, DC – Theatre Lab Cabaret/JFK
Center for the Performing Arts (Shear Madness – 6857 performances as of Oct
31/04)
WASHINGTON, DC – Tivoli Theater
WASHINGTON, DC – United States Theatre – 1800
*WASHINGTON, DC -
University of
Washington/Penthouse Theatre – 1935/1940 – one of the first arena-style
theatres
WASHINGTON, DC – Uptown Theater
WASHINGTON, DC –
Warner Theatre (Earle)
– built 1924
WASHINGTON, DC – Washington Theatre – 1804;
new Washington Theatre opened in 1821 on Louisiana Avenue
WASHINGTON, DC – Wolf Trap – see Filene Center
WASHINGTON, DC -
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company – new
265 seat theatre at 641 D Street, NW – opening May 2005 with Big Death and
Little Death
WATERBURY, CT -
Palace Theatre – Waterbury it is
restoring the splendid 1922 Poli Palace movie theater on East Main Street and
converting it for stage productions. The theater was designed by Charles Lamb
and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 -2,650 seats -
Tony Bennett is to perform at the reopening on Nov. 12/04
WATERBURY, CT – Poli Palace – see Palace
Theatre WATERBURY, CT – Seven Angels Theatre – Nunsense II 1992
*WATERFORD, CT -
Eugene O’Neill Memorial
Theater Center – 1963 – winner of Regional Theatre Tony Award 1979 –
National Theatre of the Deaf; National Critics’ Institute; National Playwrights
Conference; winner of Tony Award for Regional Theatre 2010;
WATERLOO, IA – Paramount Theater – Atmospheric
style – closed & demolished
WATSONVILLE, CA – Fox 3 – closed 2005
WAUSAU, WI -
Grand Theater -
built 1927
WEBSTER CITY, IA – Orpheum Theatre – built
1909
WEBSTER GROVES, MO – Webster
College/Loretto-Hilton Theatre – 1965
WELLFLEET HARBOR, MA -
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre
WENDELL, ID – Ace Theatre
WESTBURY, NY – Vaudeville Theatre – built 1927
– 706 seats – hopes for performing arts center unclear
WESTCHESTER, NY -
Hudson Stage Company – Woodward Hall
Theater, Briarcliff Manor, 235 Elm Street, Westchester, NY – Pace University -
lecture hall there has been converted into a 134-seat theatre
WESTCHESTER, NY -
Loyola Theater
WESTCHESTER, NY – Woodward Hall Theatre – see
Hudson Stage Company
*WESTCHESTER, NY – Westchester Playhouse -
Judy Collins
WESTFIELD MICHIGAN, MA – Strand Theatre
WESTHAMPTON BEACH, NY – Performing Arts Center
– built 1932 as single screen theater – converted 1998 – 425 seats
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA – Gardenia – 7066 Santa
Monica Boulevard – cabaret venue
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA –
-
Masquer’s Cabaret – 8334 West 3rd Street – cabaret venue
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA – Ten20 at the Wyndham Bel
Age Hotel – 1020 North San Vincente Boulevard
WEST MEMPHIS, AR – Avon Theatre
*WESTON, VT -
Weston Playhouse Theatre – 1935 in a
converted church – 1962 fire – reopened 1963
WEST ORANGE, NJ
Le
Dome at The Manor – 111 Prospect Avenue, West Orange, NJ – cabaret venue
WEST PALM BEACH, FL – Florida Stage – since 1987 – closed its doors June 2011 – mounted more than 150 productions – 289 seat Rinter Playhouse
WEST PALM BEACH, FL – Muvico Parisian 20
*WESTPORT, CT -
Westport Country Playhouse -
1931 – renovatation on the familiar red barn – theater will reopen summer 2005,
with 580 seats rather than the current 707
WESTPORT, CT -
White Barn Theatre – established
1947 – 2004 is the 57th season
WEST SPRINGFIELD, MA – Cinema I & 2
WHITE LAKE, NY -
Bradstan – Route 17B – cabaret venue
WHITE PLAINS, NY – City Center 15
WHITTIER, CA – Whittier Theater – Atmospheric
style – closed & demolished
WICHITA, KS – Orpheum Theatre – built 1922 –
first atmospheric theatre in U.S.
WILDWOOD, NJ -
Casino Theater
*WILKES BARRE, PA -
Comerford
Theatre (F.M.Kirby Center)
WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN, NY – Brick -
75-seat theater on Metropolitan Avenue – space was at one time an auto-body shop
WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN, NY – Charlie
Pineapple Theater – North Eighth Street – 45 seats – new venue
WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN, NY – Collapsable
Giraffe WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN, NY – Galapagos Art Space -
Williamsburg version of P.S. 122
WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN, NY – Monkey Town
- will reopen in May/05 – 32 seats
WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN, NY – Radiohole
WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN, NY – Streb
Laboratory for Action Mechanics (SLAM) – has 30-foot ceilings, from which
hangs a flying trapeze
WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN, NY -
Supreme Trading - a 7,500-square-foot
club opened across from Charlie Pineapple in October/04
WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN, NY – Williamsburg
Art Nexus (or WAX) – recently closed after five years
WILLIAMSBURG, VA – First Williamsburg Theatre
– 1716 on Palace Street – demolished in 1769 or 1770 – 2nd Williamsburg Theatre
built in 1751 and the third in 1752 – all destroyed by fire
WILLIAMSBURG, VA – Playhouse – circa 1718 –
demolished 1769
WILLIAMSPORT, PA – Capitol Theatre
*WILLIAMSTOWN, MA -
Williamstown Festival – 2 stages -
founded 1954; Adams Memorial Theatre (520 seats) at Williams College – opened
1955 – Nikos Stage (96 seats)- Adams Memorial Theatre will be demolished in 2005
and become the Center for Theatre and Dance with a 250 seat theatre, 200 seat
studio theatre, and a 40 seat rehearsal and performance space – taking place of
the Adams will be a new 550 seat mainstage theatre – Katharine Hepburn, Blythe
Danner, Gweneth Paltrow – winner of 2002 Tony Award for regional theatre
WILMINGTON, DE – DuPont Theatre – opened 1913 – celebrating its centennial this season – located in Hotel du Pont, brightest stars have graced the lovely Victorian stage – professional Broadway series – oldest legitimate, continually operating theatre in the country
WILMINGTON, DE – Grand Opera House – 1871 -
originally a Masonic Temple – restored 1971
*WILMINGTON, DE -
Playhouse Theatre – (1239
seats) – built 1913
WILMINGTON, DE – Queen Theatre – Fifth and Market Streets – 1915 – once-grand Queen Theater, which had sat vacant for more than 50 years until a $25 million renovation brought it back to life in April as a restaurant and live-music space considered the anchor of an ambitious public-private partnership to breathe new life into a nine-block stretch of Market Street that connects Wilmington’s thriving central business district and the Christina River’s redeveloped waterfront of office, residential and retail space – project to convert the Queen Theater into a World Cafe Live venue – original World Cafe Live in Philadelphia is a concert and dining facility that houses the studios of a popular adult alternative radio station, WXPN, and licenses the name of the station’s nationally syndicated World Cafe Live program – Wilmington officials want to open a World Cafe Live on Market Street – World Cafe Live at the Queen’s main music hall, with its mix of new construction and rustic remnants from the old theater, holds up to 800 people. A smaller hall can accommodate up to 250 people. Mr. Real said he expected the theater would host 350 to 400 events annually
WILMINGTON, OH -
Murphy Theatre – built 1918
WILSON, NC -
Lauren Kennedy and Alan Campbell
Theatre – 2009 – new black box theatre
WINDSOR, CO – Windsor Opera House – 1902 – 205
4th Street – now private residence
WINNIE, TX – Winnie Theatre
*WINTER HAVEN, FL -
Ritz Theatre (Williamson
Theatre) – built 1925
WOODBURN, OR – Pix Theatre – abandoned
WOODLAND, CA -
Woodland Opera House – Woodland,
CA – built 1896
WOODVILLE, OH – Limelight Theatre – 329 Temple St – abandoned
*WOONSOCKET, RI -
Stadium Theatre – 1926
WOOSTER, MA – Cinema I & 2 – 1903-1998 –
opened as Franklin Square Theater – burlesque house – renamed Grand 1912 – 1926
renamed Poli’s Palace, then Loew’s Poli 1934 – 1962 renamed Cinema I & 2
WOOSTER, MA – Wooster Group – leading American
avant-garde troup founded 1975 in 150 seat Soho Performing Garage
WORCESTER, MA -
Tatnuck Bookseller – 335 Chandler Street
WORCESTER, MA -
Worcester Memorial
Auditorium
WRAY, CO – Carl Opera House – 1901 – 400 seats
- now Amos Jewelry
WRAY, CO – Blanchard Opera House – 1920 –
demolished – became Tyco Theatre
WRAY, CO – Pickett Opera House – 1904 – closed
1921
WYANDOTTE, MI – Wyandotte Theatre – abandoned
Y *YALE, NY -
Yale Repertory Theatre – founded 1966
- opened in former church
YANKTON, SD -
Dakota Theater
YORK, PA – Strand Theater – Capitol Performing
Arts Center – 50 North George St – Strand opened 1925 as vaudeville & film house
– 1629 seats – Capitol Theater – 1906 – 586 seats – started as Theatorium, later
renamed Jackson Theater – renamed Capitol 1926
YORKTOWN, NY -
Yorktown Stage
YUMA, AZ – Madradian 5 – closed 2005 – now a
church
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