City Centre Theatre – now in their fourth year – established 2001 – use
George Ignatieff Theatre as their venue

City Playhouse Theatre – 1000 New
Westminster Drive, Vaughan

Civic Light Opera Company
- 27th season 2006 – see Fairview Library Theatre, Don Mills Road & Sheppard
Avenue

Civic Square Theatre – see Casino
Theatre

Civilized Theatre – #1 – 189 Huron
Street

Classical Stage Productions (1972-3)

Classic Theatre – built 1914 – 1300
Gerrard St. East (just East of Greenwood) – built as vaudeville house – film
theatre from 1930-1956 when it became a warehouse and discount store – 1997
restored as performance space and cafe

Cliftcrest Community Centre – 1 McCowan

Clown Hall – 68 Broadview, Suite 201A

Club David’s – around corner from New Yorker cinema (now Panasonic) – gay bar late night and punk club during evening

Club Varadero – 1305 Dundas Street West

CNE – see Canadian National Exhibition

CN Tower – entertainment complex

Coach House Theatre – now closed – The
Birthday Party, Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Little Malcolm and His Struggle
Against the Eunicks, Mister Mister, Viet Rock

CODCO – 1973 – opened with Cod on a
Stick – company never had permanent space was was disbanded in 1979

Colborne Street Theatre – Front and
Church Streets, then Colborne St (starting at Yonge and ending at Market
Street)- 1820s – destroyed by fire in 1883

Coliseum – Mississauga (FP) – 309
Rathburn Road W – Square One – 1997 – 13 screens

Coliseum – Scarborough 12 (FP) –
Scarborough Town Centre 1998 – 12 screens

College – 350 seats (1979-1985)

College – 960 College St at Dovercourt,
built as Allen – 1499 seats (1921-1967) now retail stores

Colonial – see Bay

Colonial Tavern – 203 Yonge Street
(above Queen) – former Yonge Street tavern with entertainment – opened 1947 and
closed 1987 – Dave Brubeck, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonius Monk, Muddy
Waters, Oscar Peterson, Billie Holiday, Wayland Flowers and Madame, Peter Allan
- building demolished

Colonial Theatre – SE corner of Queen and Bay Streets
opposite City Hall – opened 1910 – 477 seats – name later changed to Bay Theatre – demolished in 1957

Colonnade Theatre – built 1964 – 190
seats – originated for lunch theatre – no longer used – Black Comedy;
Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Marat Sade (77); Six Tales of Canterbury, Staircase,
The Good Doctor

Colony – 1801 Eglinton Ave West &
Dufferin – 838 seats (1939-1958) – demolished and now office building

Colossus and Imax (FP) – Hwy 400 & 7,
Weston Road in Vaughan 1999 – 18 screens

Coloured Stone – see Dream

Comedy Theatre – Richmond Street, West
of Yonge Street

Comedywood Downtown – 194 Bloor St.
West

Comedywood Uptown – 800 Steeles St.
West
Comique – 279 Yonge Street – 1908 to 1914

Community – 1202 Woodbine Ave – art
deco – 742 seats (1937-1955) – became a TV studio – now retail stores

Compagnia dei Giovani – (1969-82)

Company of Lost Souls
- works in collaboration with Fishbowl Theatre

Company Theatre – new company to launch January 2005 with “Whistle in
the Dark,” to premiere at Berkeley Street Theatre; Festen 2008

Comus Music Theatre (1975-1986) -
started by Michael Bawtree – opened with Harry’s Back in Town 1976 – dissolved

Concert Hall – 888 Yonge St – 1983-1996
- Led Zeppelin, David Bowie

Concord Tavern – 1950s-1960s club – Levon and the Hawks, Luke and the Apostles, the Drifters, David Clayton Thomas, John and Lee, John and the Checkmates

Conservatory Theatre – see Telus Centre
for Performance and Learning

Continental – 456 seats

Convocation Hall (University of
Toronto) – Alfred Hitchcock (1970s); Janis Ian (80); Rufus Wainwright (02)

Cooksville – West Hill – also see Roxy
(1956-1960)

Copa – 21 Scollard St – 1983-1986 -
closed 1992 – Herbie Hancock, Berlin

Coq D’Or – Yonge Street R & B club – Hawk’s Nest upstairs -
Ronnie Hawkins – 1950s

Coronet Theatre – cinema – 399 Yonge St
at Gerrard – opened as Savoy in 1951 – played double features (1963-1980) 800
seats – known as Savoy at some period – closed 1983 and now a Jewellry Exchange
and canopy is still there

Cort Theatre – see Adelaide Theatre

Cosmopolitan Hotel – new luxury venue
at 8 Colborne Street 2005

Courthouse – The decision by the
operators of Live@Courthouse to permanently close the 150-seat, Adelaide St. E.
venue as a jazz club means local scene is once again without large capacity room

Courtney Park 16 (AMC) – 110 Courtney
Park E. at Hurontario

Crash and Burn 15 Duncan Street – Diodes, Viletones (1977), Teenage Head – now office building

Creation 2 – (1969-1977) – theatre
company

Credit – Port Credit – 395 seats
(1974-1975)

Crescent – 2265 Dundas St. West (West
Toronto Junction) (1932-1945)

Crest Theatre – Mount Pleasant Road and
Eglinton Avenue – see also Belsize Cinema 1922 – a former vaudeville house then
movie theatre built in 1927 – (822 seats) – refurbished and established in 1953
by Donald and Murray Davis, and their sister Barbara Chilcott, further
renovations in 1958 and 1963 – they mounted more than 150 productions, some
original, presented works by Malcolm Black, Leo Ciceri, Robertson Davies, Marcel
Dubé, Bruno Gerussi, Amelia Hall, Martha Henry, John Hirsch, Charmion King, Tom
Kneebone, Mavor Moore, Barry Morse, Kate Reid, Bernard Slade, Herbert Whittaker,
and among many others, such directors as Malcolm Black, Douglas Campbell,
Marigold Charlesworth, Robert Gill, John Hirsch, Allan Lund, Leon Major, Mavor
Moore, Barry Morse, Kurt Reis, Jean Roberts, Herbert Whittaker, and gave work to
many Canadian performing artists (Jackie Burroughs, Barbara Chilcott, Donald and
Murray Davis, Jack Duffy, Amelia Hall, Barbara Hamilton, Martha Henry, Frances
Hyland, Charmion King, Marilyn Lightstone, Richard Monette, Kate Reid), many of
whom went on to international fame – theatre was closed in 1966 basically due to
refusal of Canada Council grant – the company produced over 90 plays including
Albert R.N.; Antigone 1956; Arms and the Man 1963; Born Yesteday 1963; Caesar
and Cleopatra (Frances Hyland) 1964; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Charley’s Aunt,
Christmas Carol 1963; Come Back Little Sheba 1952; Crest Revue, Deputy 1964;
Double Image, Emmanuel XOC, Epitaph for George Dillon, Evelyn 1964 (Tom Kneebone),
Four Faces, The Glass Cage 1957, Hay Fever, Hedda Gabler 1966 (final
production); Hunting Stuart 1955; Jig for the Gypsy 1954; King Lear 1961;
Krapp’s Last Tape, Living Room (Frances Hyland) 1954; Marriage Go-Round 1961;
The Matchmaker 1959, Me Nobody Knows; The Mousetrap 1958, Mr. Scrooge 1963,
Murder in the Cathedral 1954; Othello 1955; Ottawa Man, The Physicists 1965,
Poor Bitos, Prisoner 1955; Private Ear and the Public Eye, Pygmalion (Frances
Hyland) 1958; The Rainmaker, Richard of Bordeaux 1954; Roots and Roar Like a
Dove 1962; Salad Days 1958; Spring Thaw 1961 & 1962; That Hamilton Woman 1963,
This is Our First Affair 1959; Thunder Rock (Robert Goulet), Three Sisters 1956;
Tiger and the Typist, Tiny Alice 1965, Twelfth Night 1955; Visit to a Small
Planet, Witness for the Prosecution; Me Nobody Knows (early 1970s); Little Shop
of Horrors 1985 – this and Tarragon are/were probably Toronto’s most important
and influential theatres

Crest Theatre – room in Performing Arts
Lodge – 110 The Esplanade

Criterion – Queen Street West

Crown – Finch and Weston Road – 410
seats (1979-1982)

Crown – 591 Gerrard St. East at Broadview – 724
seats (1930-1956)

Crows Theatre – 69 Massey Street

Cry Baby – see Footwork

Crystal Ballroom – see King Edward
Hotel

Crystal Palace – 1860 – King Street
West – moved to ground of the CNE and used occasionally as concert venue -
destoryed by fire in 1906

Cube – 579 Yonge Street – performance
venue – closed April 2005 after operation of just one year

CUM-BACK – see Adelphi

Cumberland 4 Cinemas (AA) – (see also
Alliance Atlantis) – 159 Cumberland Street at Avenue Road – 1980 – theatres on
market for sale 2008 – demolition possible Jan 2009?

*Curtain
Call Players – Fairview Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall Drive (Don
Mills and Sheppard Avenue East)

Curtain Club Theatre – 400 Newkirk,
Richmond Hill

Cyclorama Building – 16 sided domed
structure which exhibited massive cylindrical paintings known as panoramas -
opened 1887 on side side of Front St just west of University Avenue – Battle of
Sedan; Jerusalem on the Day of Christ’s Death; Battle of Gettysburg – became
home of Petrie Machinery Company, then in 1920s Elgin Ford Co, then parking
garage – demolished 1976 for high rise complex called Citigroup Place

D

Da Da Kamara – 401 Richmond Street
West, Suite 363

Dancap
Productions – newest entry in theatre game as of 2007-2008 season – using
various venues, Elgin, Winter Garden, and Toronto Centre for the Arts for
subscription season of Broadway musical fare, eventually planning on producing
musicals and plays here, like the days of Livevent

Dance Cave – 529 Bloor St West -
nightclub

Dancemakers Studio – 927 Dupont Street\

Danforth – see Music Hall

Danforth – 635 Danforth at Pape – had
theatre organ – 1946 – see Odeon Danforth (1330 seats) – also known as Rex
Theatre – has been Athena Palace, Mulicare Health, Palladium Bar and Grill – now
eXtreme Fitness

Danforth Mennonite Church – 2174
Danforth Avenue

*Danforth Music Hall – see Music Hall

Danforth Odeon – see Danforth

*Danny
Grossman Dance Company – 1975 – Parliament Street – season held at
Harbourfront

Darrell Kent Cultural Centre – 454
Parliament Street

Dave and Busters – 120 Interchange Way

Deering Theatre – 1842 – Front Street (Berczy
Park) – financial problems and converted into restaurant

Dell Tavern – demolished – cabaret type
entertainment – Hollywood Blues, Noel Coward Revue

Deutsches Theatre of Toronto

Devil’s Den Club –

Diesel Playhouse – originally built
1997 to house Second City – reoped as Diesel Playhouse April 2006 – Evil Dead
played 500 performances – closed December 2008, perhaps for condo?

Direct Energy Centre – new name for
Exhibition Place’s National Trade Centre

Distillery District – Historic district (circa 1832) (spanning Mill
Street to the Gardiner Expressway and Parliament Street to Cherry Street),
formerly the Gooderham and Worts distillery complex of 44 buildings with a mix
of artists spaces, retail outlets and residences – four theatre complex (from 80
to 400 seats) to be called the Young Centre for the Performing Arts – opening
Fall/Winter 2005 housing Soulpepper Theatre Company (beginning Dec/05) and
George Brown Theatre School (beginning Sept/05), as well as classrooms and
administrative offices, 250 seat theatre will be the Michael Young Theatre (see
also Young Centre for the Performing Arts); also site for
Distillery Jazz Festival featuring 7
stages – The Glenlivet Cabaret in the Stone Distillery Building – largest of the
indoor venues; The Chivas Regal Grand Stage – under the big top; The Pure
Spirits Patio – dining, entertaining under the stars; Gibsone-Jessop Gallery -
intimate art gallery with piano recitals; Tank House Nine – large ensembles;
Tapestry/Nightwood Studio – studio performance space – located on 3rd floor of
the Cannery; Dancemakers Studio – located on 3rd floor of the Cannery;;

Dixie 5 – Dundas at Dixie – 383 seats
(1972-1984)

DK Productions – 30 Gloucester Street,
Suite 309

*Dominion
Club – 1 King St West – new private club open to members only

Dominion Drama Festival (1932-1978)-
adjudicated festival held in various regions for high school and college
productions – 1970 renamed Theatre Canada, but discontinued in 1978

Dominion Hotel – now Dominion of Queen – 498-500 Queen St East at Sumach – built 1889 in area known as Trefann Court – live entertainment upstairs in ballroom before it burned down and entire top floor removed

Donlands – 397 Donlands Ave – 838 seats
(1949-1969) – still there but in use as Pie in the Sky Studios

Don Mills – see Odeon Don Mills – Don
Mills Centre – 857 seats (1963-1988)

Doric Theatre – 1094 Bloor St. West and
Gladstone – 527 seats (1919-1955)

Doris Theatre

Dovercourt Church in the Great Hall –
Dovercourt

Downtown Theatre – 285 Yonge Street –
1059 seats (1948-1972) – South of Dundas, NE corner across from Hardrock Cafe

Doyle’s Tavern – King and Simcoe
Streets – habited by actors

Drake
Hotel – cabaret type venue – 1150 Queen Street West, near Gladstone
Hotel

DramaWay
- six year old as of 2005 performing in various venues – schools, camps,
community centres, churches and corporations

Dream – 205 Richmond St. West – to be
housed in space that was NYC Dance Boutique, previously Red Square and before
that was Coloured Stone

Dream in High Park – sponsored by
Canstage – as of 2004 the 22nd Anniversary

Driftwood Theatre Group – Ontario’s most accessible theatre company,
celebrates its 15th Anniversary Season (2009) with two of William Shakespeare’s
greatest plays, KING LEAR and THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, on tour in Ontario between
July 9 and August 23/09 – Bard’s Bus Tour will visit 27 communities in Ontario

Duchess – Dundas Street West – see
Centre

Duke of York Hotel – Queen Street at
Leslie – built 1868 as an Inn – currently bachelor apartments

*DuMaurier Theatre Centre – 231 Queens
Quay West – 400 seats 0 changed to Harbourfront Centre Theatre see also
Harbourfront Centre

*DuMaurier
World Stage Festival – founded 1986 – held at Harbourfront and other
theatres

Dundas – see Brock

Dundas Square – see Nathan Phillips
Square

D.V. Theatre Company – Latvian company
- active for over 30 years

DVXT
Theatre – uses various theatres i.e. Canadian Stage, Buddies in Bad
Times, DuMaurier World Stage

E

Earl Grey Players – formed 1946

Eastern Theatres Ltd – 248 King St.
East

Eastminster United Church – 310
Danforth Avenue

East Side Players -
Pottery Road – see Papermill Theatre, Todmorden Mills Theatre – theatre is now known as The Papermill Theatre. The building has had many incarnations – papermill, riding stable, day care, art club. In 1974 the City of Toronto offered part of the space to East Side Players who transformed it into a theatre which they called The Mill. From that time until 2003, East Side Players was the sole group to perform there. In Spring 2003 the theatre was closed for major renovations. When it opened again in the fall of 2005 the City opened the space up to other performing groups as well as corporate and other users, but East Side Players continue to offer high quality, engaging and affordable productions as the Resident Theatre Company

Eastwood – 1430 Gerrard St. East, West
of Coxwell – Beaux Art design – 770 seats – (1927-1966) – became Naz Theatre
then India Theatre – now India Centre Mall

Eaton Auditorium – see also
Carlu – opened Oct 30, 1930 at Eaton’s 7th
Floor Art Moderne Auditorium and Round Room with domed ceiling, two bars and
space for up to 300 persons) designed by Jacques Carlu (Yonge and College
Streets) – Art Deco style 1400 seat Art Deco concert hall and restaurant,
1928-31 recital hall in the old Eatons College Street store – Yonge and College
Streets – top floor – 1275 seats – closed in 1977 when the store closed – Portia
White (Nov. 7, 1941); National Ballet of Canada started season here 1951; then
transferred to the Royal Alexandra Theatre (they are now in their 50th year);
Billie Holiday; Emlyn Williams as Charles Dickens; Joyce Grenfell 1955; Elsa
Lanchester; Ages of Man (John Gielgud) 1960; Glenn Gould made his stage debut
here in 1945 and did all his recordings here from 1970 to 1981 – opening of
Easton Centre in 1977 at Queen & Yonge Streets signalled the end of Eatons
College Street and it closed in 1977 – site is being restored and will reopen
with 2 new bars at the rear of the theatre, a new VIP room, vintage phone booths
- hopefully reopening in the Fall of 2002 under the working name of the “Carlu”
(named after the architect)

Eaton Centre Cineplex – Dundas St. West
of Yonge St – 18 cinemas (1979-2001)- 1600 seats – Garth Drabinsky & Nathan
Taylor’s baby – formed 1979 – most screens in the world at the time – by 1981
Cineplex had opened and planned 146 screens in 46 locations across Canada -
moved into U.S. with Beverley Center Mall in Los Angeles in 1982 – most screens
of any theatre in U.S. at that time

Eaton Theatre – see Rogers Communication
Centre

Echo Beach – new concert venue at Ontario Place grounds, just west of Molson Amphitheatre – opened June 2011 – 4,000 person capacity – Robyn (2011)

Eclipse – 387 Parliament St, South of
Dundas – 561 seats (1947-1951) – now Regent Park

Eden – see Madison, Bloor Cinema and
Midtown – 947 seats (1973-1979)

Edge – 70 Gerrard St. East – Goddo, Blondie, Ramones, Talking Heads – 1977-1982
- Police

Edison Hotel – 335-339 Yonge Street at Gould – 1847 was bakery – 1888 becomes Empress Hotel for 30 years – 1889 corner unit becomes Express Hotel – 1947 becomes Edison Hotel to 1970s – 2010 section of wall collapses – country music – 2011 burned to ground

Ed Mirvish Theatre – renamed Dec 6, 2011 – formerly Canon/formerly
/Pantages) – name changed in his honour as of September 1, 2001)(244 Victoria St/263 Yonge Street –
416-873-1212) – Bring It On: The Musical – May 2/12 to June 3/12 (replaces Hair as subscription show);

Edward Jackman Centre – 947 Queen Street East, 2nd Floor

Eglinton Theatre – 402 Eglinton Avenue
West at Avenue Road West – built 1936 Art Deco, with 1,080 seats – vintage,
single screen theatre, possibly finest movie house left in Toronto, with THX
sound, recently renovated, classic decor make this favorite of discerning movie
goers, frequent location for festivals and special screenings – closed April 1,
2002 due to nonincorporation of handicapped facilities to the theatre – being
reopened soon (Fall 2003) as the Eglinton Grand, after restoration will be yet
another “special events” theatre like the York and Capital

Eglinton Town Square – Warden and Eglinton Ave – 2000 – 16 screens
Elane – Eglinton and Danforth – 711 seats – 1963-1985 – in 1998 opened as Tamil cinema
Electra – College and Spadina – see Bellevue 1968-1969
Elektra – 698 seats – 1964-1970 – showed Greek films
Elgin Theatre – built as Loew’s Vaudeville, Yonge Street in 1913-14 -
189 Yonge St. – designed by Thomas Lamb, at a cost of $500,000 (1600 seats) part
of the vaudeville circuit – from 1913 to 1928 vaudeville acts and silent films –
minimum of three continuous shows a day – Webber and Fields, Bill (Bojangles)
Robinson, appearing without white face for first time (late 1920s), George Burns
and Gracie Allen, Sophie Tucker, Milton Berle and Edgar Bergen and Charlie
McCarthy – fire 1928 – 30,000.00 damage – showed movies from 1930 – the Elgin
later became a cinema renamed Yonge in 1969 and ran until 1982 – in 1985 the
both theatres were renovated – opened with Cats (1985 to 1987); Joseph and the
Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (1992); Napoleon 1994 – cost 40 million dollars,
in 1989 – the last remaining operating double decker theatre complex in the
world – Winter Garden is 7 stories above the Elgin (see also Winter Garden); The
Full Monty 2001 (run cut short re reviews)

El
Mocambo – 464 Spadina Avenue (at College) – October 2001 ends the gritty
and bristling character of the El Mocambo – which perhaps embodied the spirit of
rock ‘n’ roll – Blondie; Bon Jovi; Alex Chilton (1995); Elvis
Costello (1978); Donnas; Duran Duran; Jimmy Hendrix; Meatloaf; Lou Reed (late 1970s), Rolling Stones (1977); Blondie (1978); Rush; Steve Ray Vaughan (1983); Galactic Cowboys
(1999); Pepper (2001); U2; – still echos through this legendary club -
although the second floor was not used as often recently, it still showcased a
few fine performers, while the downstairs stage operated seven days a week -
reopening November 2002 with beautifully restored space ; reopening New Year’s
Eve 2001 at 549 College Street West

Elmore’s Hall – 188 1/2 Lowther Avenue
- converted chapel of Walmer Road Baptist Church

Embassy – see Astor – 651 Yonge Street
– 1934 see New Yorker, Panasonic

Empire – 408 Queen Street East – 528
seats (1926-1955)

Empire Studio 10 – 100 City Centre Dr, Mississauga – screens Bollywood and Filipino films

Empire Theatre – 31 Yonge Street -
1912-1923 (or perhaps built in 1899?)- repertory companies at Temperance Street
North of Adelaide off Yonge Street – housed the New Empire Players
(1932-1933)(see Temperance Hall) formerly Star Burlesque – torn down

Empire
Theatres Ltd – Stellarton, NS – purchased 27 cinemas from Cineplex in
Ontario and Western Canada, including Cineplex Odeon Elgin Mills in Richmond
Hill, Cineplex Odeon Square One in Mississauga, and Silver City North York in
Toronto – Empire is Canada’s second largest theatre chain operating 28 theatres
in Atlantic Canada and four others under a joint venture in Western Canada -
their holdings also include Sobeys supermarket chain – when deal closes Sept
30/05 they will have 59 theatres with 403 screens

Encore Central Parkway – Mississauga

Encore Upper Canada Place – Burlington

ENRIGHT’S
THEATRES OF TORONTO – 1940

Enwave Theatre – 231 Queens Quay West – new 2006 name for
Harbourfront Centre Theatre – built in 1926, the Ice House, as it was first
known, and its sister building the Power Plant (now an art gallery), provided
heating and cooling for North America’s largest food warehouse, which is now
Queens Quay Terminal – this theatre has hosted over 475 different performance
groups

*Equity
Showcase Theatre – Performing Space, 651 Dufferin Street – Camino Real,
Knuckle, Vieux Carre, Pippin (98), Sunday in the Park With George (00); Into the
Woods (01) – cash crisis has forced the closure of Equity Showcase Theatre after
47 years of serving the theatre community (March,2008) – Founded in 1960 by
group that included Charmion King, Amelia Hall and Christopher Newton, created
to keep actors in the game when performing jobs were hard to come by. Equity
Showcase Theatre put on as many as four productions a year of mostly well-known
plays

Erindale Studio Theatre
- 3359 Mississauga – University of Toronto at Mississauga – see also Theatre
Erindale

Erin Mills Town Centre 5 – Mississauga
(1984-2001) – 5 screens

Esquire – 2290 Bloor St West at Durie –
opened as Lyndhurst – now a Shoppers Drug Mart

Esquire – 408 Queen St. East – 512
seats (1937-1955)

Essence – 287 Richmond St West -
nightclub

Ettore
Mazzoleni Concert Hall – 273 Bloor Street West – see Royal Conservatory
of Music

Eve – see Capri – 717 seats (1972-1986)

Evergreen Commons – proposed site
replacing old Don Valley brickworks (16 buildings from the 1950s to 1980s)- to
be commercial garden centre, food, arts complex, winter skating, Jamie Kennedy
restaurant at a cost of 40 million – opening Spring 2007

Eve’s Paradise – Bloor and Bathurst
(1986-1990) – porno house

Exhibition Place – city-owned selling
rights to National Trade Centre – to be known as Direct Energy Centre – also new
soccer stadium to be built in deal with owners of Maple Leafs and Toronto
Raptors – 20,000 seats for professional soccer team and recreational programmes
- to be completed by June 2007 – located east of Queen Elizabeth building

Exhibition Stadium – demolished 1999 -
formerly home of Canadian National Exhibition spectacular grandstand shows -
produced annually during the Exhibition – mid August to Labour Day, with
featured performers (see CNE) – new 20,000 seat stadium being built to open May
1, 2007 – buildings are being flattened for the new stadium – see BMO Field

F

Fabrik – 134 Peter St – nightclub

*Factory
Lab Theatre (formerly Factory Theatre Lab)and Studio – 125 Bathurst
Street & Adelaide theatre – celebrating their 36th Anniversary in 2006 – founded
in 1970 by Ken Gass in former candle factory at 374 Dupont Street (100 seats) –
opened with Act of Violence and We Three, You and I 1970 – now Factory Theatre -
bought its theatre in March 1999 – Creeps 1970; Brussels Sprouts 1971;
Strawberry Fields 1972;Winter Offensive – moved to Adelaide Court Theatre until
1982 and in 1984 moved to its present location, with 230 seats; Factory Late
Shift – late 1980s (Brent Carver) – now in its 40th season (2009/10);

Fairlawn, Odeon Fairlawn – 3320 Yonge
St. at Fairlawn – 1165 seats – twinned in 1977 (1946-1985) – demolished – now a
bank, which is completely different structure

*Fairview
Library Theatre – also home to
Amicus Productions – 35 Fairview
Mall – 260 seats – now in its 26th year

Fairview Mall – Don Mills Road and
Sheppard – 6 screens (1969-2001)- see Rainbow Cinema 6 – taken over by Rainbow
2002

Family – 2173 Queen St. East at Lee –
1914 – renamed the Lake – now a Royal Bank

*Famous People
Players – 110 Sudbury Street – 2009 will be their 35th season – dinner
theatre – founded 1974 – moved 2009 to 343 Evans Ave @ Kipling

Famous Players Theatre (to be named) -
Famous Players will replace the Loew’s Uptown with a 10 screen state-of-the-art
movie centre across the street as part of a condo plus retail complex at 1 Bloor
Street East

Famous Players
Theatres – stable includes Colossus, Famous Players, Paramount and Silver
City Theatres – Canada’s top grossing theatrical exhibitor – company operates a
total of 81 locations with 787 screens across the country, including theatres in
its joint venture with IMAX and its partnership with Alliance Atlantis

Far East – Dundas Street West – 647
seats (1989-1999)

*Feast
of Fools Theatre – see Village Playhouse, 2190 Bloor Street West

Festival (1964-1965)

Festival – 651 Yonge Street – 516 seats
(1978-1982) see New Yorker

see
Bell Festival Centre – King and John Streets – proposed site for
screenings, exhibits, and workshops and new home for Toronto International Film
Festival – five-storey podium-style $122-million Festival Centre will be part of
a complex in the Entertainment District – building will include a 41-storey
tower. The festival will occupy the lower five floors with 36 levels of condo
units above it – centre will include four screening rooms and a large exhibition
space, as well as office space for festival staff and housing the festival’s
reference library – scheduled opening 2008

Filmport – studio complex being built
in Portlands, just east of Cherry St, near waterfront – one of largest sound
stages in world, in addition to shops and restaurants, effects and costume
companies – phase 1 scheduled to open March 2008

Finch 3 – Finch and Dufferin
(1976-1999)

Fine Arts – 622 seats – (1977-1984)

Finnish Social Club – 1932 at Community
Hall in Scarborough

Firehall Theatre/Old Firehall Theatre -
110 Lombard Street – 1886 constructed as firehall – 1974 became home to Second
City for 24 years (Dan Ackroyd,Gilda Radner,Andrea Martin,John Candy,Eugene
Levy,Martin Short), until 1997 when they moved to Blue Jays Way – no longer in
use – Lemon Sky, Old Times, Sea Horse, Shelter, Unexpected Guest – now
rennovated as branch of Gilda’s Club (Gilda Radner)

First Canadian Place – Waterfall Stage
- small stage area near HMV store, towards Sheraton Centre – Paul Potts 2007;

First Markham Place (C) – 3275 Hwy 7 E.
between Woodbine and Warden – 10 screens – 1998

Fishbowl Theatre – uses other theatres i.e. Alumnae Theatre, Toronto
Fringe Festival, and collaborates with Company of Lost Souls

5ive – 5 St. Joseph St – nightclub

5 Drive-In Oakville (I) – 2332 9th Line
at Hwy 5

519 Church St – a century ago an annex
of Granite Club – later 48th Highlanders Hall – Jim Carey did comedy in basement
- 1976 it was home to Yuk Yuks before they moved to Bay Street – used to be
bowling alley in basement

Fleck Dance Theatre – see Premiere
Dance Theatre

Fly – 8 Gloucester – nightclub

Footwork – 425 Adelaide Street West -
previously Crybaby, and before that Matrixx – club venue

*Ford
Centre for the Performing Arts (originally known as North York Performing Arts
Centre, then Ford and now Toronto Centre for the Arts) - 5040 Yonge
Street, North York – was the home of Livent Productions (founded in 1989 -
opened 1993) – (Main Hall 1780 seats (had short life as Apotex Theatre) – George
Weston Recital Hall 1030 seats, Studio Theatre 200 seats), in Vancouver the new
Ford Centre for the Performing Arts (1,849 seats) plus the Ford Centre for the
Performing Arts in New York (1,839 seats), also Ford Centre in Chicago -
Showboat (inaugural production); *Ragtime (530); Fosse: A Celebration in Song,
Sunset Boulevard (977); Swingstep 1999- changed to North York Performing Arts
Centre after bankruptcy 1998 theatre fell into disuse for better part of a
decade – My Fair Lady 2008; Jersey Boys 2008;

Fort Rouille – on the grounds of the
CNE – 1720 first European theatrical performance in region

Forum – 678 Mt. Pleasant Road
(1948-1949)

Forum – open concert hall at Ontario
Place – see Ontario Place and Molson Amphitheatre at Ontario Place

401 & Morningside (C) – 785 Milner
Avenue, Scarborough – 1997 – 11 cinemas

410/7 Centre – 150 West Drive
(1990-2001)

Foundry Theatre Co – prouces 8 full lenth readings in a season

Four Seasons Centre for the Arts – see Opera House – new five tiered
horseshoe shaped theatre being built to house the Canadian Opera Company and
National Ballet of Canada – three storey glass building with 2000 seats; R.
Fraser Elliott Hall – opening June, 2006 (only such facility dedicated to opera
in Canada)

Fox Cinema (Festival) – 2236 Queen St.
East – 546 seats – 1913 – opened as the Theatre Without a Name – also named
Pastime, and Prince Edward before becoming the Fox – now a repertory cinema with
250 seats – probably will be shut down – getting new lease on life from
Napoleonic Theatres Ltd – to be refurbished 2007 reopening Sept 29/07 – official
launch Oct 1/07

Fox Weston – see Weston

Franks Hotel – (West Market Street) now
Front Street at Jarvis – 1820 – first theatrical performance in York of local
actors – took place in Ballroom on 2nd floor, The School For Scandal put on by
local actors, Little Pickles, and in 1825 the earliest known opera performance
“The Mountaineers” (1925)- now Dominion store

Friar’s – former musical venue – Bob Dylan

*Fringe
of Toronto Festival

Frog and Nightgown Theatre – 93 Raglan
Avenue

Funhaus – 526 Queen West – nightclub

G

Galli Theatre – 96 Spadina Avenue, Ste.
202

Garden Theatre – 290 College St, West
of Spadina – 526 seats (1910-1965) – had roof garden with Garden Theatre
Orchestra – now a computer outlet and Exclusive Paints

Garden Centre Theatre – see Prudhomme

Garret Theatre (1967-1970) – small
intimate theatre – 35 seats – no longer in use – Incident in Rosedale, Stranger
Unto My Brethren – used by playwright John Herbert (Fortune and Men’s Eyes) to
present his works

Gasworks – former 585 Yonge Street
tavern with entertainment – Rush – closed 1993

Gate 403 – 403 Roncesvalles – local
jazz club

Gateway 6 – Gateway Blvd, Brampton – 6
plex (1988-2001)

Gatsby’s – 504 Church Street at
Alexander – cabaret performances with dinner, restaurant closed but reopening in
2002

Gay – 309 Parliament and Dundas Streets
– 512 seats (1954-1964) – see Blue Bell

Gayety Theatre – 78-84 Richmond St West (1909-1927) – a
burlesque house

Gem – (1955-1957)

George Brown Theatre – 530 King St.
East – Angels in America Pt I (03)

*George
Ignatieff Theatre – 15 Devonshire Place (180 seats)

George’s Spaghetti House – Dundas and Sherbourne – featured George’s Jazz Room – jazz club – Moe Koffman – 1956-1984
closed 1992

(Le)Germain Hotel – Mercer Street

Gerrard – 1908 Gerrard St. East at
Woodbine – 768 seats (1927-1953)

Gladstone Hotel– cabaret type venue -
1214 Queen St. West near Dufferin – restored and reopened 2005 as series of
artist’s studios – one of Toronto’s hotspots – 116 years old in 2005

Glendale – Avenue Road at Cranbrooke Ave, North of Lawrence
(1947-1975) – 995 seats and Cinerama screen i.e. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Battle
of the Bulge – torn down 1975 now a Nissan dealership

Glen Morris Studio Theatre – 4 Glen
Morris (90 seats)- (just East of Spadina Avenue) – built 1916 and once a Russian
Greek Orthodox Church – has been home of the Graduate Centre for the Study of
Drama since 1968

Global Theatre – Beginning November
24/03, The Mike Bullard Show will be seen five nights a week at midnight on the
Global Television Network. The show will be taped nightly, in front of a studio
audience, at the new Global Theatre at 98 The Esplanade in Toronto, in what was
formerly the News Theatre – Bullard Show cancelled as of March 12/04; new host
Jebb Fink as of June 2004 – space available for lease again July 2004

Glenn Gould Studio – 1936 – 337 seat
theatre in CBC building – see Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Global Village (1969-1975) – 17 St.
Nicholas Street – theatre ran by Robert and Elizabeth Swerdlow, managed by Roy
Fleming – Facad 1969 Toronto’s first full-length drag queen variety
show(transferred to run at Royal Alexandra Theatre), Eyes, Fables, Hey Justine,
Jubalay, Justine 1970 (ran off Broadway as Love Me,Love My Children for 7
months, Nuts and Bolts and Rusty Things, Outcry, Peter and the Wolf, Rats,
Spring Thaw, The Truth Behind the Dykes, Tubstrip; Paul Van Vliet – theatre
presently being used for skateboarding

Globe Vaudeville -Queen Street, West of Yonge -
1880s to 1930s – Burns and Allen; Tommy Burns and his Big Bathing Girl Revue
(from Showcard) – see Broadway – replaced with Four Seasons Hotel complex when
new City Hall built in 1957

Golden Classics –opened 1977 – 706 seats (1994-1995) – see Toronto Underground Cinema
– Chinese films

Golden Dragon – 498 seats (1984-1985) –
Chinese films

Golden Harvest – see Standard, Victory

Golden Horseshoe Players – 3809, 44
Charles Street West

Golden Mile – Eglinton and Pharmacy –
995 seats – 2 cinemas (1954-1986)

Golden Princess – 1985 – renamed Royal
in 1995 – 736 seats – Chinese films
Goodhandy’s – 120 Church Street – tranny club

Graffiti’s – 170 Baldwin Street

Granada – 415 Danforth Avenue at Logan
– 500 seats – across street from the Model (1935-1960) – now restaurant

Grand – see Allenby (1909-1925)

Grand – Danforth – opened and closed in
1999 – see Roxy

Grand at Orion Gate – 410 and Steeles,
Brampton – 1999 – 10 screens

Grande at the Sheppard Centre (C) –
1998 – 10 screens – Hwy 410 & Steeles

Grande Yonge (C) – 4962 Yonge Street

Grand Opera House -(1874-1927) 11
Adelaide St West, South side, just West of Yonge St. – 2,196 seats – lavish
interior – opened with School For Scandal 1874 (Nickinson’s Stock Company
(1874-78) – Tony Pastor 1875 – destroyed by fire in 1879, new one reopened in
1880, with 1300 seats – gas lighting – by 1905had declined to 2nd class status -
redesigned by Thomas Lamb in 1916 and reopened as the Regent – Abie’s Irish Rose
1916; Maurice Barrymore, Sir Henry Irving, Sarah Bernhaardt 1881, Giuseppe Del
Puente, Antonio Galassi – School For Scandal – torn down in 1927 after being
empty several years, and many fires – only hint is the laneway running off
Adelaide Street which bears its name

Grant – 522 Oakwood Avenue at Vaughan
Road – 672 seats (1929-1956) – renovated and reopened as the New Grant

Grasshopper Bar – 460 Parliament Street
– local jazz club

Great Hall – 1087 Queen St. West – see
also The Great Hall

Greenwood – see Guild

Grossman’s Tavern – Spadina Avenue
entertainment spot of the 1960s

Groundling Theatre Company – newly formed 2011 company headed by Graham Abbey – in schools and community centres

Grove – (1944-1945)

Grover – 2714 Danforth Avenue near
Dawes Road –794 seats (1927-1956) – closed in the late 1950s – then became a
nightclub, Spectrum and Thunder and today is a homeless shelter, Cyclepath
GTA Centre – proposed 20,000 seat arena to be built in Markham, 300 M – multi-use sports and entertainment complex

Guild – 1275 Gerrard St. East at
Greenwood – opened as the Greenwood – 435 seats – (1940-1951) – now retail store

Guild Inn Gardens – 201 Guildwood
Parkway

Guvernment/Kool Haus – cabaret type
venue – 132 Queen’s Quay East

H

Half Beat –

Hanlan’s Point Amusement Park -
baseball stadium early 1900s to 1920s – Babe Ruth played here 1914 – fires 1903
& 1909

Harborfront – 198 seats – 1984

*Harbourfront
Centre – York Quay Centre – houses the
du Maurier World
Stage Festival – 235 Queen’s Quay West – founded in 1986 – 231 Queens Quay
West – du Maurier Theatre Centre (400 seats);
Premiere Dance Theatre
- (400 seats) – 207 Queen’s Quay West

Harbourfront Centre Theatre – 231 Queen’s Quay West – built in 1926 as the Ice House and its sister building the Power Plant (now an art gallery), provided
heating and cooling for North America’s largest food warehouse, which is now
Queens Quay Terminal – this theatre has hosted over 475 different performance
groups – became the
DuMaurier Theatre Centre – 400 seats – Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of
God (04) – name being changed Dec 2006 to Enwave Theatre

Harbourfront Studio Theatre – 235
Queen’s Quay – see Harbourfront Centre

Hard Rock
Cafe – 279 Yonge Street

Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company – starting March 2008
– venues include Jane Mallett Theatre and Tarragon Theatre

*Hart
House Theatre – (University
of Toronto) – 7 Hart House Circle – (500 seats) – began in 1913 and finished
in 1919 – first season The Queen’s Enemies; The Farce of Master Pierre; Patelin;
Alchemist; The Nativity and the Adoration; Trojan Women; New Sin and Love’s
Labour’s Lost – (actors passed through includes Donald Sutherland, Charmion
King, William Hutt, Kate Reid and Donald Harron) – Town Tonics 1934; America
Hurrah,Arsenic and Old Lace (1444); Saint Joan (Charmion King) 1947; , Caste,
Changeling, Children of Darkness, Clap Hands, Dark of the Moon, Devils, Emperor,
Emperor Jones, Endgame, Fan, 15 Miles of Broken Glass, Ghosts, John Gabriel
Borkman, Mame, Man’s a Man, Maquettes, Mourning Becomes Electra (69), Next Time
I’ll Sing To You, Promise, Salad Days 1956 (Eric Christmas,Jack Creley,Norma
Renault,Mary Savidge – transferred to Royal Alex); Saved, Sweet Bird of Youth,
Tango, Temps des Lilas, Touch of the Poet, La Turista, Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd;
West Side Story (01) – talk currently (April, 2000) of tearing the theatre down.
This, despite its reputation as a Canadian Theatre Shrine – fortunately the
theatre continues to operate

Healey’s – cabaret type venue – 178
Bathurst Street

*Helen
Gardiner Phelan Playhouse – 79A St. George St. (seats 115)

Heliconian Hall – 35 Hazelton Avenue

*Herongate
Barn Theatre – Whitevale, Ontario

High Park
Amphitheatre – over 20 years of outdoor theatre – see Canstage

Hillcrest – 285 Christie Street – 428
seats (1943-1952)

Hillcrest – 9350 Yonge Street, Richmond
Hill – 5 screens (1980-1998)

Hippodrome – City Hall Square –
(1924-1925) – 3,665 seats – Bay Street – site of new City Hall – see Sheas
His Majesty’s – 141 Yonge St

His Majesty’s Feast – started 1978

Hollywood Cinema (North and South) – 1519 Yonge Street above St.
Clair Avenue – duplexed (1930-2000) – 1709 seats – now closed

Hollywood Theatre at Sick Kids – opened May
2007 – over 230 seats

Holman Opera House – 1883 – now site of
Paramount cinema at John and Richmond Streets – which also doubled as skating
rink

Home Depot Theatre – opening June 2004
at Ashbridges Bay Park – 500 seats, all weather facility – Romeo and Juliet 2004
- failed endeavour – currently for sale April 2007

Honestman Productions – 205 Vaughan
Road, Suite 35 – South

Hook and Ladder Club – Beverly Hills Motor Hotel – Wilson Avenue – Billy Daniels – now Day’s Inn

Horseshoe Tavern – 370 Queen Street West @ Spadina Avenue – 60th
Anniverary year (1947-2007) – built 1861 as blacksmith shop – 1947 becomes
Horseshoe – sometimes used for cabaret – From its post-war origins as a
honky-tonk hosting the likes of Willie Nelson, Conway Twittie, Charlie Pride,
Waylon Jennings and Loretta Lynn, through its Canadiana years as Stompin’ Tom
Connors (25 consecutive nights) stomping ground in the late 1960s, 1971, Carter
Family, Bruce Cockburn, Ian & Sylvia, Good Brothers, Hank Williams: the Show He
Never Gave 1977, name changed to Stagger Lee’s and is even turned into strip
club for a couple of months and then to its punk glory days a decade later, to
its ascendancy as the birthplace of Canada’s new rock heroes (The Tragically
Hip, Watchmen, The Bourbon Tabernacle Choir, Rough Trade, Prairie Oyster,
B-52′s, Moxy Früvous, Barenaked Ladies, REM) in the ’80s and ’90s, and since then as
a showcase for an astonishing array of diverse emerging talent from across
Canada and around the world – In 1997 we started booking really pink stuff, like
Blue Rodeo, Nickelback, Billy Talent, the Tragically Hip (late 1980s), Barenaked
Ladies, Foo Fighters, Rolling Stones (1997), Police, the Band, Ramones, Arcade
Fire, Blues Brothers with Dan Aykroyd, Nickelback, Rick Springsteen, Matchbox 20, Vic Chestnutt, Goldfinger,
Therapy, Ash, Nada Surf, Spoon, Kathleen Edwards, Thrush Hermit, Strokes

Horticultural Pavillion in Allan Gardens
- used for occasional concert

House of Hambourg – Toronto jazz club
-extinct – The Connection

Hoxton – opened Aug 6/11 – 650 person event space – vacant for 2 years – formerly State Theatre nightclub

Hudson – 675 Mt. Pleasant Rd – Mt.
Pleasant Theatre (1928-1948)

Hugh’s Room – cabaret type venue – 2261
Dundas Street West

Humber – 2442 Bloor St. West and Jane
Streets – 1946 – 1203 seats – 2 cinemas – still operating at Cineplex
multi-screen – last film shown July 20/03 and now has a for sale sign – Odeon
Humber – reopening soon as Humber Cinema

Humber Studio Theatre – Kipling, South
of Lakeshore Blvd.

*Hummingbird
Centre for the Performing Arts – 1 Front Street East – opened in 1960 as
the O’Keefe Centre (3,150 seats) home to Canadian Opera Company and the National
Ballet of Canada (50th Anniversary Year)(O’Keefe/Hummingbird from 1964 to 2006)
- Name changed to Hummingbird Nov. 30, 1996 – Theatre has become a white
elephant, talk of renovation and building a condo at the west side of the
theatre (2000) – Beauty and the Beast (01); Copacabana (00); Burn the Floor
(01); Mandy Patinkin (01); Blast (02); Last Empress (04); Bombay Dreams (06); -
April 15/06, the Canadian Opera Company brings down the curtain for the last
time after 45 years at the Hummingbird (formerly O’Keefe) Centre – opera company
moved there in 1961 to 2006 – also National Ballet moving to new Four Seasons
Centre for the Arts in Sept/06 – theatre to be closed for 2 years as of August
2007 after revival of Camelot – 2007 to be renamed Sony Centre for the Arts

Hungarian Art Theatre – formed 1958

Hush – 457 Richmond St West – nightclub

Hyland Theatre – 1501 Yonge Street
above St. Clair – 1357 seats – (1948-2001) – see Odeon Hyland

I

Ideal – 210 Main St. at Gerrard – 480
seats (1941-1952)

IMAX – Ontario Place

IMAX – Ontario Science Centre

Imperial – built as Pantages – became
Imperial 1930, Imperial 6 in 1973 – closed 1986 – became single screen Pantages
1987 – closed August 1988 to films but continues as live theatre venue, first as
Pantages then as Canon – 263 Yonge Street at Dundas (1920-1988) – featured Jack
Arthur’s Imperialettes – 3206 seats

Imperial (Oil’s) Players Guild

Imperial Room – see Royal York Hotel

Imperial Six – see Pantages

Indian Theatre – 1430 Gerrald near
Coxwell – 1998 – films in Tamil

Industrial Exhibition – 1896 – first taste of motion pictures with Thomas Edison’s Vitascope

Inn on the Park – Eglinton and Don
Mills – built 1963 – emolished May 2006 for car dealership

Interchange 30 (AMC) – 1975 – 30
Interchange Way, Hwy 400 & Hwy 7 – show Bollywood films

International Cinema – built as Oriole
– 557 seats – an art cinema on 2061 Yonge Street above Davisville and below
Eglinton Avenue (1946-1987)

Iola Theatre

*Isabel
Bader Theatre

Island – Centre Island – 705 seats
(1949-1955)

J

Jabberwock & Sons Full Theatre Company
- 1980

Jane Mallett Theatre – see St. Lawrence
Centre

Jeff Healey’s Roadhouse – 56 Blue Jays
Way

Jezebel Burlesque – 227 Ossington -
opened Spring 2009 – formerly home of Baby Dolls Strip Club

Jiri Schubert’s – former Toronto
cabaret on Pears Avenue

Joe – 250 Richmond St West – nightclub

John Candy Box Theatre – 70 Peter
Street – Toronto’s Second City troupe officially raised the curtain 2009 on a
new performance space named after the late Canadian comedy great John Candy -
cozy theatre space is part of Second City Toronto’s Training Centre, which
offers courses to the general public on improvisation, acting and writing and
will host regular pay-what-you-can shows and serve as a performance venue for
Second City students.

John Bassett Theatre
- metro toronto convention centre – 255 Front Street West – 1330 seat
multi-purpose auditorium

Joker – 318 Richmond St West -
nightclub

Joseph G. Green Studio Theatre – see
York University

Joseph Workman Theatre – 1001 Queen St.
West – (in Queen Street Mental Facility) – to be demolished in near future

Joy – 1130 Queen St. East near Jones –
380 seats, built as the Rex (1943-1953) – now a restaurant – The Indian Maharaja

J.T.M. Guest Theatre – Bayview Glen Upper School, 85 Moatfield Dr

Jupiter Theatre – 1951 – group of CBC
radio actors i.e. Lorne Greene – used the Museum Theatre of the Royal Ontario
Museum, as well as the Ryerson, and Royal Alexander theatres – 41 performances
of 4 plays in Museum Theatre – Galileo; Biggest Thief in Town; Socrates; Crime
Passionel – company disbanded

K

Kaneff Centre – see University of
Toronto at Mississauga – 3359 Mississauga Road

Kay’s Puppets

Keating’s Coffee House – Church and
Front Streets – site of York’s 3rd theatre – 1833 – barnlike structure with
stable in back, in this stable York’s 3rd theatre was born – no gallery – seats
arranged on ground floor for 200 to 300 people – comedy team Mr. & Mrs. Thorne

Kennedy Commons 20 (AMC) – Kennedy Rd &
401

Kensington – 565 College St at Bathurst
– 524 seats – see King (1972-1975)

Kensington Karnival – 96 Spadina Ave.,
Suite 705

Kensington Youth Theatre – 466 Bathurst
Street

Kent Theatre – located on 1488A Yonge
Street, just above St. Clair – 520 seats (1942-1963) – demolished

Kenwood – 962 Bloor St West near
Dovercourt – 599 seats (1930-1957) – now Emin Centre

Kew Beach United Church Auditorium -
140 Wineva

King – 565 College St and Manning –
renamed from King 2 – (1934-1951) – became the Studio – closed 1970

King Edward Hotel – by 1925 featuring
jazz orchestras like Romanelli and his celebrated King Edward Hotel Radio
Suncopaters – Crystal Ballroom opened in 1922 on top of the new addition big
bands, big stars – closed to the public a few years ago but can still be visited
on the annual Doors Open weekend

King Lung – 496 seats (1984-1985) -
Chinese films

King’s Playhouse – 1082 Queen St. West
– see Avon (1941-1942)

Kingsway Theatre (Festival) – 3030
Bloor Street West, west of Royal York Road – 1936(9?) – 697 seats – repertory
cinema – closing end of June 2006 – closed for 2 1/2 years – reopening Jan 2/09
as first run cinema

Kingswood – 922 Kingston Road
(1929-1938)

*Kingswood Music Theatre – see also
Paramount Canada’s Wonderland (16,000 seats) 1983-1999 – Bette Midler (83),
Johnny Mathis (83), Neil Young, Barry Manilow

Kitchener – see Paradise

Knights of the Masonic Temple – see
Russell’s Hotel

Koerner Hall
- 1,140-seat concert hall to be used by the Royal Conservatory Orchestra, Glenn
Gould School and RCM Royal Conseravtory School faculty, as well as for the
Conservatory’s gala events, rehearsals and classes. The hall will also be used
by partner organizations, such as the Opera Atelier, the Toronto International
Film Festival, the Toronto Children’s Chorus and CBC Radio and Television -
opens Sept 2009 – see Royal Conservatory of Music and Telus Centre for
Performance and Learning

Koffler Centre of the Arts – Koffler Gallery/Koffler Centre of the Arts
is located at the Bathurst Jewish Community Centre, 4588 Bathurst Street – see
also Leah Posluns Theatre – 250M Jewish centre on the way called Sherman Campus
to be completed 2011 to house centre for Jewish Heritage, rebuilt Koffler Centre
for the Arts, 500 seat Leah Posluns Theatre, and 6,500 square metre athlectic
and social centre

Kool Haus – 132 Queen’s Quay East – 2,000 person concert venue

Krishna – 423 seats (1979-1980)

Kum-C – 1288 Queen St. W., West of
Dufferin – 596 seats (1933-1964) – now martial arts studio

L

Labyrinth Lounge

*La Cage – 279 Yonge Street – second
floor-now closed

Lake – see Family – 2173 Queen St. East
– 531 seats (1948-1953)

Lakeshore – 1474 Queen St. West –
renamed from Odeon – (1965-1980)

Lakeview Drive-In (I) – 11 Polson

Lane Tavern

Landsdowne – 683 Lansdowne Ave at Bloor
St – 904 seats – built as Park and in 1937 became the Lansdowne – home of Ken
Soble Amateur Hour – (1936-1958)now retail stores

La Plaza – 1930s – 735 Queen St. East, E. of Broadview – 787 seats
(1931-1958) – known as Acropolis in late 1950s – Mama Let Me Sing; 1962 became
Dundas and in 1965 Cinema Ellas – now the Opera House

La Reta – Pape and Downsview
(1937-1938)

Larry’s Hideaway – 121 Carlton St -
1978-1984 – closed 1986 – R.E.M.

La-Salle – 526 Dundas St. West – 681
seats (1947-1955)

*Leah
Posluns Theatre (founded 1977- ) – part of a huge Jewish Centre on 4588
North Bathurst Street – Minnie’s Boys 1979 – see also Koffler Centre

Le Coq d’Or – former Yonge Street
tavern with entertainment

Lee’s
Palace – opened 1985 – cabaret type venue – 529 Bloor Street West – home to lot of Canadian groups – Ryan Adams (2001), Blue Rodeo, Cowboy Junkies, Goo Goo Dolls, Alana Morisette, Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sloan, Smashing Pumpkins,

Leigha Lee Browne Theatre – 1265
Military Trail

Lester B. Pearson Theatre – 150 Central
Park, Brampton

LeTHAL (Le Theatre de L’Homme Actors
Laboratorium) – 9 Inkerman Street, Unit 3

Liberty Grand – Entertainment Complex – 25 British Columbia Rd.,
Exhibition Grounds

Lido – 698 seats – 1974

Lightbox – see Bell Lightbox

*Limelight
Dinner Theatre – 2026 Yonge Street – opened in 1979 in a church on Yonge
Street and still running today in a different location – Curtains Up; Mame
(1508)

Little – Yonge Street Arcade

*Living
Arts Centre , 4141 Living Arts Centre Drive, Mississauga – houses the
Hammerson Hall (1,315 seats), Royal Bank Theatre (300 seats), and the Rogers
Theatre (100 seats)

Little Red Theatre – touring childrens theatre

Live@Courthouse – 57 Adelaide St. E., 2nd & 3rd floors, 150 seats -
opens March 2007

Loew’s – see Loew’s Uptown

Loew’s Uptown – opened 1920 – 3000
seats – 764 Yonge Street at Bloor Street – the dance choreographer was Leon
Leonidoff, who along with partner Jack Arthur, created a chorus line with
showgirls of the same height forming a precision number, and Leonidoff wound up
at Radio City Music Hall where he created “The Rockettes” – theatre gutted by
fire in late 1960s and in 1970 the theatre was divided into 5 auditoriums, the
main theatre with 900 seats with 2 backstage cinemas I and II added (31 Balmuto
Avenue at Bloor Street in rear of the theatre)- closed and the Uptown is slated
to be closed on September 13, 2003 following screening of the 28th Annual
Toronto International Film Festival, due to nonincorporation of handicapped
facilities to the theatres – building has been sold to a developer for 50 storey
condo tower – Famous Players will replace the Uptown with a 10 screen
state-of-the-art movie centre across the street as part of a condo plus retail
complex at 1 Bloor Street East – theatres (Uptown, Backstage I and II)
demolished late 2003

Loew’s Yonge Street – 189 Yonge Street above Queen (2096 seats) 1913
- atmospheric style – provided venues for large-scale foreign touring companies
- last vaudeville played here in 1930 – and for next 48 years survived as film
theatre – see Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres, also Yonge Theatre

Loew’s Vaudeville Theatre – see Elgin
Theatre

Loew’s Yonge Street – double decker – 189-191 Yonge St – became Strand by 1920 – see Elgin (2,149 seats) and
Winter Garden (1,410 seats) Theatres

Loft – 235 Queens Quay West

Loft 18 + Adult Cinema – beside AOV
Video – south of Gerrard on E side of Yonge

Long Shong 2 – 4350 Steeles Ave East
(1998-2001) – Chinese films

Loop
Centre, Artscape Wychwood Barns – Binti’s Journey -2009

Lorraine
Kimsa Theatre for Young People – see Young Peoples Theatre – 2006 is
40th Anniversary season – returns to being Young People’s Theatre in July 2011

Lot 332 – 332 Richmond St West -
nightclub

Lotus Nightc lub – 26 Lombard Street

Loud Mouth Asian Babes – dedicated to the development and production of
new Canadian works by, for and about Loud Mouth Asian women who may or may not
be Babes, Loud Mouth Asian Babes who may or may not be women, and Loud Mouth
Babes that we really dig – Theatre Centre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto
Fringe

Lower Ossington Theatre – 100A Ossington Ave – has been performing
arts space for more than 4 years, previously a dance studio – home to Classical
Theatre Project and Toronto Youth Theatre

Lucid – 126 John Street – large 53,000
square feet nightclub – opened summer 2004 – closed doors July 2005

Lula Lounge – cabaret type venue – 1585
Dundas Street West

Lux Theatre – 743 seats – became
burlesque house

LyceumTheatre – (ran 1846-1847) –
located near the Royal Alexandra Theatre – seated 1,149 – former stable – had
resident company led by John Nickinson with 34 member company – seventy pieces
staged over 31 nights – changed to film house in 1930 – demolished

Lyndhurst – see Esquire – Bloor ST.
near Runnymede (1927-1937)

Lyric Theatre – North of Hippodrome Yiddish theatre built
in a converted Methodist church – later became the National

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*MacMillan
Theatre -80 Queen’s Park – University of Toronto

Madison – 1905 – 506 Bloor St West –
(1919-1939) – later the Bloor Cinema, Midtown, Eden, Capri and Eve

Madison – North York (1939-1940)

Madison 5 – 4950 Yonge St. near
Sheppard – 5 screens (1986-1998)

Majestic – (1903-1930) – 1175 seats -
vaudeville house at 27 Adelaide Street West, just West of Grand Opera House -
assumed location of Toronto Opera House which burned down 1903 – later renamed
the Regent converted to film house – provided venues for large-scale foreign
touring companies – torn down

Majestic Music Hall – 27 Adelaide St – later became Regent – originally built as a
vaudeville theatre (1909-1915)- 1,800 seats

Major Theatre – 435 Rogers Road – 663
seats (1927-1955)

Major Theatre – 1780 St. Clair Ave West
(1927-1955) – Cinema Italia – now a church

Malton – Mississauga – 312 seats
(1979-1982)

Manor – 202 Kingston Road (1938-1940)

Mansion House – 1825 – north side of
King Street, just east of Sherbourne Street, performance by a travelling
American company with an evening of song – Richard III 1826

Maple Leaf – Queen Street West

*Maple
Leaf Gardens – 60 Carlton Street – (at Church Street) – (15,700 seats) -
opened in 1931 Maple Leaf Gardens, legendary home to the Toronto Maple Leafs who
captured 11 Stanley Cup Championships here – it was home to legends Charlie
Conacher and Dave Keon – the hockey arena stretched some 350 feet along Carlton
and Wood Streets, and 300 feet on Church Street – also housed the Hot Stove
Lounge – architects Ross and Macdonald who were responsible for Eaton’s College
Street, Union Station, Royal York Hotel and a former bank building at the
northeast corner of King and Yonge – The Gardens are now abandoned for the new
Air Canada Centre – also house circuses, ice shows, rock concerts – even ballet
- Royal Ballet; Mazowsze; Moiseyev; Royal Danish Ballet; Bolshoi Ballet; Robert
Iglesias; Ballet Espagnol and opera like the Metropolitan Opera before the
O’Keefe Centre/Hummingbird Centre was built – artists like Neil Young 1973; Bob
Dylan, the Moscow Circus (77), Victor Borge’s Comedy in Music; Elvis Presley
1957; Beatles 1964; Little Richard; John Denver; Neil Diamond (76-78)currently
the site is on the market and the decision should be made by around July -
hopefully the facade can be saved – The Gardens is to become a Loblaws Super
Store (purchased 2004 but nothing proceded at the time), and updated ice rink,
recreation centre for Ryerson University complete with gym, etc. – expected to
open Spring 2011

Maple Leaf Square – $350 million public
square adjacent to Air Canada Centre – to be completed 2009 – will include two
condo towers (40 and 44 storeys), restaurants and a 2,000 seat concert venue,
broadcast studio, retail complex and a 171 room hotel

Maple Leaf Stadium – 20,000 seats on 7
acres at Bathurst and Fleet Streets 1926 to early 1960s – closed 1967 -
demolished 1968
Maple Leaf Theatre

Market Square 6 Cinema – 80 Front
Street East (6 cinemas – Odeon Cineplex) – (1983-2001) – now closed but planned
reopening June 20/03 as the Rainbow Cinema playing 6 firstrun films

Markham Theatre – Town Centre

Markville – Hwy 7 and McCowan – 6
screens (1982-2000)

Marquee Event Theatre – 280 Coxwell Ave
at Gerrard St

Mary Pickford Theatre – (1916-1947) – 380 Queen St W -
Northwest corner of Queen and Spadina – see the Pickford, and also Auditorium,
Avenue, Variety – now a MacDonalds

Masonic Hall/Temple – 888 Yonge St – built for a secret
society in 1917/1918, one of Canada’s most legendary music venues, The Masonic Temple, known as Concert Hall, Rockpile (lae 1960s),
has hosted concerts by Frank Sinatra, R.E.M, David Bowie, The Pogues, Ike and
Tina Turner, Led Zeppelin 1969, The Ramones, Iggy Pop (1977); The Tragically Hip and Public Enemy; it
was recently used as a rehearsal space for The Rolling Stones. The concert hall
itself is now the set for MTV’s flagship show, MTV Live

*Massey
Hall – 178 Victoria Street/15 Shuter St – started building in 1889 in honour of
Charles Massey and opened in 1894 as

Massey Music Hall with a performance of Handel”s Messiah – later called
Massey Hall – acts from the Great Enrico Caruso 1920, Nellie Melba, Jeanette
Macdonald, Eleanor Roosevelt to wrestling – (2765 seats) – replaced by the new
Roy Thompson Hall, but still used for concerts and one-man type shows – Restless
Underwear, Paul Simon, Bob Newhart, Carol Channing, Cleo Laine, Paul Williams,
Joan Sutherland, Edwin Hawkins Singers; Chad Mitchell Trio; Rough Trade; Divine;
Rod McKuen; Neil Young 1971; Cat Stevens (76); Roger Williams (76) – CIBC vacant since 1987 to become entrance to new condo called Massey Tower, and exterior of Massey Hall to
be restored and parts of interior to be renovated starting 2012

Matrixx – see Footwork

Mavety – see West End

Mayfair – 347 Jane St. below Annette –
478 seats (1929-1959) – now a bank

Mazzoleni Concert Hall – see Telus
Centre for Performance and Learning

McLaughlin Performance Hall – see York
University

McClear building – 225 Mutual St., near Carlton and Jarvis Sts., was only one storey tall but legends recorded inside; Rush, Ringo Starr, Aretha Franklin, Rosemary Clooney, Gordon Lightfoot, Steve Winwood, George Hamilton IV, Anne Murray, Chubby Checker, Bachman-Turner Overdrive and James Brown –
Richards, bought the facility in 1979 from RCA Records, which had used it as its Toronto studio since 1954. RCA bought it from CHUM, which built it in the late 1940s as the studio for its fledgling radio station – bankruptcy in 2005 – demolished summer 2010 after sitting empty for 5 years

McMaster Hall – historic space which is
to be restored to its former grandeur

*Meadowvale
Theatre – 6315 Montevideo Road, Mississauga

*Medieval
Times – dinner show and adventure – permanent location at Exhibition
Place at the Dufferin Gates

Melody – 344 College Street – 453 seats
- see Playhouse (1963-1964)

Melody Fair – theatre in the round -
run in Toronto from 1951 to 1954 in 1,600 seat tent at Dufferin Park Raceway
(1951-52); CNE Grounds (1953) but closed 4 years later – then housed for a time
in the Mutual Street Arena – 10 to 12 productions mounted each summer – leading
roles were taken by U.S. performers, and supporting roles by Canadians, many at
the beginning of their careers, i.e. Kathryn Albertson, Glenn Gardiner, Robert
Goulet, Sylvia Grant, Alexander Gray, Joan Maxwell – among the 43 productions -
Bigadoon; Carousel; Desert Song; Finian’s Rainbow; Kiss Me Kate; Oklahoma;
Roberta; Rose Marie; Showboat; Song of Norway (1951)

Meta-Physical Theatre – PO Box 404,
Station C

Metro – 679 Bloor St. West at Manning –
696 seats – (1938-1967) – art deco – reopened 1978-1982 as porno house (one of the last in North America) – still
showing porn 7 days a week but has been on market for a number of years and is in bad
shape so death may be imminent

Metro Central YMCA – 20 Grosvenor
Street

Metropolis – entertainment facility on
the north side of Yonge and Dundas, the builders anticipate two years of
construction – facility will feature retail space, restaurants, and AMC Megaplex
24 movie theatres, will be partly built over the Ryerson parking garage. Ryerson
will have access to 12 of the 24 theatres to use as classrooms weekday mornings
- was supposed to be completed by Summer 1999 – now looking at 2006
Metropolitan Amusement – 14-16 King St East – 1916

Mezzetta Café – 681 St. Clair Avenue
West – local jazz club

Mezzrow’s – 1546 Queen Street West –
local jazz club

Midtownn – 506 Bloor St. West at
Bathurst – 1089 seats – opened as the Madison (1941-1966) – now operating as the
Bloor Cinema, a repertory house – also was known as the Capri and Eden

Mighty Brave Theatre – productions presented at Equity Theatre Showcase,
Cameron House etc.

Miller’s Assembly Room – 1809 –
refurbished from a former coffee house – visit by British actors Potter and
Thompson (May 7,1809) – theatrical performance of songs, recitation and
ventriloquism

Millwheel – Yorkville music venue and bicycle shop

Mime Theatre Unlimited – 1975

Mimico Presbyterian Church – 119 Mimico Ave, Etobicoke – home to Sirius
Theatrical Company

Mimico Rex

Mink – 150 Pearl – nightclub

*Minkler Auditorium – see Seneca
College

Mirabel – 465 seats (1979-1980)

Mississauga Players

MiST Theatre (Multimedia Studio Theatre) – Multimedia Studio Theatre, or MiST, is a theatre space located on the University of Toronto at Mississauga campus. MiST was designed as a modern, flexible theatre space. It has a mezzanine that runs around the room to create balcony seating as well as additional performing areas

Mixed Company – a Toronto-based theatre company that uses the techniques
of Augusto Boal and the Sweet Medicine teachings of the Deer Tribe to educate
and bring focus to pressing social issues

Mod
Club Theatre – 722 College Street – cabaret type venue – East Village
Opera Company 2005

Model – 416 Danforth Ave (1929-1933) –
was across street from the Granada – now restaurant – see also Granada

Modern Times Stage Company – 96 Spadina
Avenue, Suite 705

*Molson
Amphitheatre – Ontario Place (16,000 seats)- opened 1994 – celebrating
10th summer of great music 2004 – originally opened as The Forum with topnotch
entertainers – Ella Fitzgerald, Jane Oliver, National Ballet of Canada

*Molson Indy – Exhibition Place (70,000
per day)- see Canadian National Exhibition

Monarch – 720 College St.

Money – 199 Richmond St West -
nightclub
Monteford’s Museum – Bay and Adelaide Sts

Moore’s Musee Theatre – see Sheas
Theatre

Montreal Bistro – 65 Sherbourne Street
– 120 seats – local jazz club – closed July 2006, after 25 years – was Toronto’s
oldest jazz venue – Oscar Peterson, Diana Krall – comparable to NYC’s Village
Vanguard

Moore’s Musee Theatre – see Sheas

Morningside – Scarborough

Moss Park – see Regent

Mt. Dennis – Weston – 661 seats
(1929-1975)

Mt. Pleasant Theatre (I) – 675 Mount
Pleasant Road – 459 seats – 1949 – still operating

Mouse Hole – Yorkville coffee house 1960s – Odetta;

MoVIPlex 9 – Pickering – 1994-2002

Multimedia Studio Theatre – see MiST Theatre

Musee – see Robinson’s Musee

Museum Theatre – in the Royal Ontario
Museum

Music Fair – (1958-1960) – summer
musical shows in a 2000 seat tent at Dixie Plaza – Goodbye Charlie, Most Happy
Fella, Redhead, Silk Stockings, Song of Norway (860)

Music Hall – in Mechanics’ Institute on
Church Street

*Music
Hall – 147 Danforth Avenue – Completed in 1918 as a Vaudeville house, over the years the Music
Hall has been a playhouse, a cinema and a concert hall – see Allen Danforth and
the Century Theatre a 2nd run film house – renamed 1977 from Danforth – 998 seats – was an
all-night theatre before turning to stage shows – Barbara Cook (79); A Rose for
Mr. Tango (Dec 1988 to Apr 1989 – 6 mos); The Police, James Brown, Duran Duran –
used for second run films for many yearsVagina Monologues — closed September
1/04 – renovated 2005 and refurbished and reopened with Song and Dance May 2006;
Toxic Avenger 2009; currently locks changed re unpaid rent (Aug 2010);

Music Hall of Fame – new permanent home
being built at Yonge and Dundas Square – scheduled to open summer 2007 – three
floor hall will be part of 10 storey Metropolis entertainment centre already
under construction on Northeast corner of Yonge and Dundas Streets – 57 Canadian
artists have been inducted since 1978

Mutual Street Arena – hockey games
before Maple Leaf Gardens – see Melody Fair

Mynah Bird Club – 114 Yorkville Ave –
popular nightsport in the 1960s – Neil Young 1966, Rick James

Mysteriously Yours Dinner Theatre – 2026 Yonge Street – see also
Limelight Dinner Theatre

N

Naaz – 750 seats – opened and closed in
1979

Nathan Phillips Square – City Hall -
Queen Street West at Bay Street – 2010 undergoing major facelift by end of 2012
- new permanent theatre stage, two level restaurant, visitor information kiosk
and skate pavillion

National – 287 Spadina Avenue – built
as home for Yiddish theatre – torn down and became the Victory

National – Yonge and Gerrard – see Rio
- 1934

*National
Ballet of Canada – now in their 51st year (2002) – see also Hummingbird
Centre for the Performing Arts and Royal Alexandra Theatre – the company was
formed in 1951 under the direction of Celia Franca, first performances at Eaton
Auditorium, rehearsals at St. Lawrence Hall, with principal dancers Brian
MacDonald, Grant Strate, Yves Cousineau, Angela Leigh, David Adams, Lois Smith,
Lawrence Adams, Lilian Jarvis, Robert Ito, Earl Kraul, Veronica Tennant, Nadia
Potts – in the late 1950s a 6 week season at the Royal Alexandra, plus touring
– 1960s the season was at the O’Keefe Centre where it still presents its season
– early 1970s European tour as well as major U.S. cities

National Ballet School – 105 Maitland
Street – moving to Jarvis Street Nov/05 in newly developed former CBC property,
add a new training facility, and to renovate and refurbish some of its existing
facilities – Jarvis Street campus is two storeys made of Northfield House, built
in 1856 and the restored former Havergal Ladies College (1898 and 1901)

National Film Board/NFB Mediatheque – 150 John St.

National Theatre – see Lyric

National Trade Centre – see Direct
Energy Centre

Native Canadian Centre – 16 Spadina
Road

Native
Earth Performing Arts – 55 Mill Street, case goods bldg #74 – formerly
at 720 Bathurst Street, Suite 503

Necessary Angel – now
in their 21st season – co-founded by Stratford Festival’s Richard Rose

NDWT – (1975-1982) – a Toronto group
set up to tour Canada – Donnellys Trilogy; Hamlet – active until 1982 – home was
the Bathurst Street Theatre – left there in 1980

N.E. Drive-in Theatre – Willowdale

Neutral – 349A College Street -
nightclub

New Bijou Theatre – 26 Queen St. West

New Broadview Hotel – NW corner of
Queen and Broadview – built 1891 – currently strip club called “Jilly’s”

New Czech Theatre – founded 1970

New Edwin Hotel – circa 1910

New Gate of Cleve – Yorkville and Avenue Road – music venue 1960s

New Globe Theatre – 357 Lonsdale Road

New Grant – see Grant

New Musical Theatre Company – 2011 – artist run company – venue Panasonic Theatre – opening season TBA – Adam Brazier, Louise Pitre, et al, part of the 20 actors – modelled along lines of Soulpepper Theatre

New Play Society – 1946 – used the 450
seat ROM theatre – Playboy of the Western World; Lady Precious Stream; Circle;
Ah Wilderness; Spring Thaw was their baby, which ran from 1948 to 1971,
literally every spring, at various theatres – Royal Alexandra,Boris Volkoff
building on Yonge Street,Eaton Auditorium and the Avenue Theatre

New Princess – 1917 – see Princess

New Royal Lyceum – see Royal Lyceum

New Strand Theatre

News Theatre – former rental space on
The Esplanade, used for promoting commercial ventures – now the Global Theatre

New Theatre – (1971-1980) – formed
group which used the Colonnade Theatre and then Bathurst Street Theatre (220
seats)

*New
Yorker Theatre -to become the Panasonic Theatre early 2005 – 651 Yonge
Street below Bloor Street – originally built as a private residence in 1911 -
converted to film theatre The Embassy in 1934 – 522 seats – changed to the Astor
Theatre in 1950 – Ramones (1977) – became Festival Theatre in 1978 – 1984 changed name to
Showcase and became part of Cineplex Odeon chain – converted to New Yorker in
1993 – Forever Plaid – 1993, My Own Private Oshawa – theatre closing July 4/04
being purchased by Clear Channel Entertainment – opening summer 2005 with Blue
Man Group – seating to become 900, along with name change to Panasonic Theatre

*Nightwood
Theatre Studio – 55 Mill Street, Ste. 301, Case Goods Building

North York Centre for the Arts – see
Ford Centre, Toronto Centre for the Arts

Nortown – 875 Eglinton Avenue West and
Bathurst Street – 959 seats – (1948-1973) – demolished

NYC Dance Boutique – see Dream

O

Oakville Town Centre 6 – closed 2002

Oakwood – 165 Oakwood Ave, North of St.
Clair – 1400 seats (1919-1962) – demolished – now apartment building

Oakwood Village Library Theatre – 341
Oakwood

Odeon – 1474 Queen St. West – 752 seats
- renamed Lakeshore 1968

Odeon Brampton – 710 seats (1949-1983)

Odeon Carlton – next door to Maple Leaf Gardens – restaurant on
Mezzanine level – 20 Carlton St – opened 1948 as the Odeon Toronto “Showplace of
the Dominion” and renamed the Carlton in 1956 – featured organ and 2318 seats -
largest of its type in North America – tremendous curtain – glorious film and
legitimate house demolished in 1974 (City of Toronto could have bought for $1.00
but reneged as O’Keefe Centre was losing money) and space left vacant for many
years – see Carlton Cinemas 9

Odeon Carlton – 20 Carlton Street, East
of Yonge Street – Cineplex Odeon with 8 small cinemas

Odeon Danforth – see Danforth Odeon

Odeon Don Mills -

Odeon Elaine – converted to the Royal,
but closed soon afterwards (circa 1986)

Odeon Fairlawn – twinned 1977 -
completely demolished so bank that is there is now a completely new structure

Odeon Hyland – see Hyland

Odeon Oakville Mews – see Cineplex
Odeon Oakville Mews

Odeon Theatre – 1473 Queen St. West

Odeon Toronto – 20 Carlton St at Yonge
– renamed Carlton 1956 – 2318 seats

Odeon Weston – 801 seats (1964-1982)

Odeon Hyland – Yonge Street above St.
Clair Avenue – two theatres – now closed

Odeon Richmond Hill – 408 seats
(1966-1980)

Odeon Weston

O’Keefe Centre for the Performing Arts
– l Front Street East – (***pre Broadway) – opened in 1960 as the O’Keefe Centre
(now Hummingbird Centre for the Performing Arts)- (3,150 seats)- presently home
to Canadian Opera Company and the National Ballet of Canada (50th Anniversary
Year)- situation will change when the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing
Arts opens in 2006 – Opened with the pre-Broadway production of ***Camelot, with
Richard Burton, Julie Andrews, Perry Como (77); Robert Goulet, Roddy McDowell,
M’el Dowd (873 perf, on Broadway) – among the greats appearing here who are no
longer with us: Peter Allen (83,85,86), Louis Armstrong (65,65), Baker Street
(65); Jack Benny (63), Victor Borge (62,64,68), Carpenters 72,75,76), Johnny
Cash (75), Harry Chapin (81), Maurice Chevalier (63); Nat King Cole (63), Sammy
Davis Jr. (66,68,77), Marlene Dietrich (60), Duke Ellington (66-72); Judy
Garland (61,65), Doug Henning (85), Bob Hope (65,81), Danny Kaye (63,68),
Liberace (61,65,67,70,72,73,75,77,82,84), Beatrice Lillie (62), Vera Lynn (63),
Jim Nabors (76), Anthony Newley (69), Red Skelton (90), Sonny and Cher (77) -
and the talents of Ann-Margret (83); Charles Aznavour (71-77-83-84); Shirley
Bassey (72-80); Harry Belafonte (13 visits between 1960-90); Tony Bennett
(62-71-74); Bill Cosby (68-69-70-80-81-82); Mitzi Gaynor (70-87); Lena Horne
(61-74-84); Tom Jones (10 times in the last years); Eartha Kitt (61-76); Cleo
Laine (78-89); Beatrice Lillie (62); Shirley MacLaine (76-78-90); Tony Martin
(61); Johnny Mathis (60-64-67-70-79-82); Liza Minnelli (71-78-79-83); Yves
Montand (62); Jane Morgan (68); Debbie Reynolds (70); Joan Rivers (82-83-87-88);
Diana Ross and the Supremes (66-69); great musicals like Anne of Green Gables
(70,72,74,79,81,86), Annie (78,81,86), ***Annie Get Your Gun (66), Anything Goes
(90), ***Baker Street (65), Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (81), Big River
(87), Bubbling Brown Sugar (75), Bye Bye Birdie (61), Cabaret (68,88), Cage aux
Folles (85), Can Can (77,88), Canterbury Tales (70), Carnival (61), Carousel
(65), Chorus Line (81,83,89), Coco (71), ***Come Summer (69), Destry Rides Again
(61), Do Re Mi (62), Dreamgirls (86), Drood (88), Evita (82,85,86,89), Jane Eyre
(71), Fiddler on the Roof (66,69,70,75,76,84,90), Fiorello (61), Flower Drum
Song (61), 42nd Street (87), Funny Girl (66), Funny Thing Happened on the Way to
the Forum (64), ***Gay Life (61), George M (69), ***Gigi (73), ***Girl Who Came
to Supper (63), Godspell (76), ***Good News (74), Grease (81), Great
Expectations (76), Guys and Dolls (62), Gypsy (61,78), ***Half a Sixpence (65),
Hallelujah Baby (68), Hello Dolly (65,67,71,75,77), How to Succeed in Business
(63,65), I Can Get it For You Wholesale (63), I Do I Do (70,76), ***Illya
Darling (67), Ipi Tombi (75), Irma La Douce (62,68), Jesus Christ Superstar
(73,75,77,90), Johnny Belinda (74,83), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat (83), King and I (68,84,89), Kismet (65), Kiss Me Kate (68), Kronborg:
1582 (75), ***Kwamina (61), Land of Smiles (67), La Plume de Ma Tante (62);
Little Me (64), London Palladium (68-71-72-73-74-75-76-77-78); ***Lorelei (73),
Lost in the Stars (72), Mame (69,70,90), Man of La Mancha
(67,69,70,71,76,79,88), ***Married Alive (67), Mary (72), Me and My Girl (88),
Merry Widow (64), Milk and Honey (63), ***Miss Moffat (cancelled 74), Most Happy
Fella (62), Music Man (78), My Fair Lady (60,62,63,77), My One and Only (86,87),
***New Faces of 1962, ***No Strings (62), ***No No Nanette (70), Oklahoma (90),
***Oliver (62-65), On a Clear Day (67), Once Upon a Mattress (61), 110 in the
Shade (65), Pajama Game (73), Peter Pan (82,90), Porgy and Bess (76,83), ***Pousse
Café (66), Raisin (75), Roar of the Greasepaint (65), Robert and Elizabeth (77),
Rocky Horror Show (80); ***Rugantino (64), Seesaw (74), Seven Brides for Seven
Brothers (78), Show Boat (66), Singin’ in the Rain (86), Song and Dance (87);
Sophisticated Ladies (83), Sound of Music (61,63,72,79,87), South Pacific
(64,77,86), Starlight Express (90), ***Sugar (72), Sugar Babies (83,84), Sweet
Charity (68,71), 10 Stout Hearted Men (Carol Channing) (70); Tommy (73); Two by
Two (73), Two Gentlemen of Verona (73), Unsinkable Molly Brown (62), West Side
Story (61,87), Zorba (70,85); plays, like After the Fall (64), Andersonville
Trial (61), As You Like It (74), ***At the Drop of a Hat; ***Beatrice Lillie;
Becket (61), ***Beyond the Fringe; Birds on the Wing (69), Blithe Spirit (71),
Cactus Flower (68), Chalk Garden (71), Cowardy Custard (74), Dame of Sark (75),
Dance of Death (67), Delicate Balance (67), Don Juan in Hell (73), Dylan (64),
Flea in Her Ear (67), Forty Carats (71), Front Page (70), Grand Kabuki (88),
***Hamlet (64), Hay Fever (68), Sherlock Holmes (76), Hostage (61), ***Hostile
Witness (66), Ideal Husband (77), In the Matter of Robert J. Oppenheimer (69),
***Ivanov (66), Lady Windemere’s Fan (79), ***Lena Horne; Light Up the Sky (71),
***Love for Love (67), Lovers (69), Macbeth (88), Man For All Seasons (64), Mark
Twain Tonight (72-75-77-89); ***Maurice Chevalier; ***Midsummer Night’s Dream
(71), Move Over Mrs. Markham (73), My Fat Friend (75), ***Nichols and May; Noel
Coward in Two Keys (75), ***Number Ten Downing Street (67), Odd Couple (75), On
Approval (77), Play It Again Sam (70), Plaza Suite (76), Present Laughter (75),
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern (69), Royal Hunt of the Sun (66), ***School for
Scandal (63), School for Wives (72), She Stoops to Conquer (78), Spofford (69),
***Treasure Island (61), Two and Two Make Sex (74), You Know I Can’t Hear You
(68) home of both the National Ballet of Canada and the Canadian Opera Company,
as well as appearances by D’Oyly Carte (63-67-68-78), Metropolitan Opera
(61,84); Metropolitan Opera National Company (65,66); Metropolitan Vancouver
Festival Opera, Ballets Africains, Alvin Ailey (79-80-87-88-90), Australian
Ballet (71), Ballet Africains (67); Ballet Folklorico de Mexico
(63-67-69-78-82); Ballet of the 20th Century (74), Bolshoi (72-74-79), Cuban
National Ballet (78), Dutch National Ballet (75), Feux Follets (65); Grands
Ballets Canadiens (71-73-76-80-81-82-83-84-88), Inbal Dance Theatre of Israel,
Karmon Israeli Dancers (63); Kirov Ballet (64-87-89); Martha Graham Company,
Kirov, New York City Ballet (66-70), Paris Opera Ballet (64), Pennsylvania
Ballet, Royal Winnipeg Ballet (73-75-77-78-82-83-84-86-88-89), Royal Ballet
(61-63-67-81-83); Sadler’s Wells, Shanghai, Stuttgart, Vienna State Opera Ballet
(72); Orchestras like Cleveland Orchestra (62); National Youth Orchestra
(63-64-65-67-68-69-70); New York Philharmonic (61); and our own Toronto Symphony
(70-72) – auditorium was designed to serve a wide range of performing arts, and
has seen such artists as Ethel Merman, Angela Lansbury, Yul Brynner, Carol
Channing, Pearl Bailey, Petula Clark, Duke Ellington, Marlene Dietrich, Diana
Ross, Shirley MacLaine, Judy Garland, Sammy Davis Jr., Liza Minnelli, Liberace,
Placido Domingo, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Vivien Leigh,
Christopher Plummer, Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn and Michael York (Camelot 2007)

Old Angelos – cabaret review – 1961
through mid 1970s – closed – Well Rehearsed Ad Libs 1961; Decline and Fall of
the Entire World as Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter; El Grande de Coca Cola

Old Mill Dinner Theatre – 21 Old Mill
Street – started 1914 as Old Mill Tea Garden, on site of working mill opened in
1793

ON STAGE TORONTO

Ontario Film Theatre – 1968 started
with Gerald Pratley at the helm, at the Ontario Science Centre

*Ontario
Place Cinesphere – 955 Lakeshore West – opened May, 1971 – see Molson
Amphitheatre – to undergo major makeover as year round attraction – Cinesphere may disappear – 2011 will be final year as it is now being closed to most attractions until 2017, only the amphitheatre, Atlantis pavillion and marina – attendance has declined in recent years

Ontario Place Forum – 8,000 seat
capacity – 1971-1994 – Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald (75), Tom Jones, Bill
Cosby, Jane Oliver – closed 1994

*Ontario
Science Centre Omnimax – 40th Anniversary 2009 – 770 Don Mills one time
home of the Ontario Film Theatre under Gerald Pratley – many major films
premiered here, along with the directors, stars 1980s etc.

Open Circle Theatre (1973-1982) -
founded by Ray Whelan and Sylvia Tucker – opened with No Way Jose 1973; Cop
1973; Business as Usual 1974; Mackerel, Primary English Class 1977 – closed

Opera
Atalier – 2005 is their 20th season (founded 1985) – holds a unique
place in the North America theatre community, producing opera, ballet and drama
from the 17th and 18th centuries, various venues including Elgin Theatre, first
season held at the Art Gallery of Ontario

Opera House – cabaret type venue – 735
Queen Street East

Opera House – see La Plaza

Opera House (see
Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts) – being built at Queen and
University – cost a probable 100 million – land donated by the City of Toronto,
and Federal government have promised 25 million as of 2002 – capital funding
program being scheduled – official opening probably Fall, 2005

Oriole – 2061 Yonge Street at Manor
Road – (1933-1942) – 1920s changed to the Cinema and then in 1949 after
renovation, became the International Cinema – open well into 1980s as art house
– now retail stores

Orpheum – 600 Queen Street West, west
of Bathurst- 645 seats – (1949-1975) – closed in 1970s – now a furniture store

O2 a.k.a. Octapus – 293 Palmerston -
new nightclub venue

Oxford – 1512 Danforth Ave – 803 seats
– (1933-1955) – now retail stores

P

Pagoda – 477 seats (1974-1985)

Palace Pier – see also Sunnyside -
jutted out 300 feet into Lake Ontario – included dance hall popular in big band
era – destroyed by fire 1963

Palace Theatre – 664 Danforth Ave, E of Pape on North side – 1,485
seats – 1921 – originally one screen – later multi-screened – was bingo parlour
– torn down and now stores

Palace Theatre – New Toronto – 393
seats (1954-1971)

Palais Royale – 1601 Lakeshore West -
Originally built in 1922, the Palais Royale opened as both a dance hall and as
Walter Dean’s Boat Factory where countless couples danced, fell in love – The
Palais had hit some hard times by the late 1970s. The famous “sprung” dance
floor was still there, providing the perfect surface for dancing — taking in the
fledgling punk, reggae, and new wave bands on Fridays and Saturdays. The peeling
mint-green paint evoked visions of a dental office — mostly been closed since
2000 – Here are just a few gigs from its seven decades: Count Basie, 1939; Frank
Sinatra, regularly through the 1940s; Louis Armstrong, 1941; Earl “Fatha” Hines,
1942; Bill Haley and the Comets, 1955; 1960s lost its lustre and was slated for demolition – city came to rescue and did 3.5 million renovation – Stan Kenton, 1969, 1970, 1973; Woody
Herman, 1971, 1973, 1986; Maynard Ferguson, 1973; The Stink Band (featuring John
Belushi, Dan Aykroyd’s brother Peter and friends), 1979; Joe Jackson, 1980;
Carole Pope and Rough Trade, 1980; Ultravox, 1980; The Pogues (performing with
guest guitarist Joe Strummer), 1987; Sloan, 1998 (recording live album 4 Nights
at the Palais Royale); Blur, 1999; Blue Rodeo, 2001; Godspeed You Black Emperor,
2001; Sigur Rós, 2001; De La Soul, 2002; Aimee Mann, 2002; Bob Geldof, 2002;
Rolling Stones, 2002; Paul Weller, 2003; Echo and the Bunnymen, 2003; The Sadies,
2004; The Constantines, 2004; Steve Earle, 2005 – now popular for weddings

Palmerston Library Theatre – 560
Palmerston Avenue – opened 1903 – 110 seats

Panasonic Theatre – see also New Yorker
Theatre – 700 seats – renovated theatre reopening June 2005 with
The Blue Man Group; Menopause Out Loud;
March 2007 L.A.-based entertainment giant Live Nation is in the process of
selling off its theatre properties, including Toronto’s Canon and Panasonic
theatres

*Pantages
- (1920)- 244 Victoria Street/faces 263 Yonge Street near Dundas) – built by
Thomas Lamb as

Canada’s largest theatre – 3626 seats – second largest theatre after Capital
in New York – Mary Pickford – Kathleen Stokes played the organ – was first to be
equipped with Cinemascope screen – 1930 changed to Imperial and turned into
Imperial 6, sixplex 1973 which closed as cinema Aug 1988 – (when built it was
the largest vaudeville house in the British Empire) -now completely refurbished
(1988-89) – back to Pantages Dec 1987 (2260 seats) – legitimate again 1989 and
in 1998 changed to AT&T Centre for Performing Arts Pantages, and as of September
1, 2001 it will be known as The Canon Theatre – Phantom of the Opera (1989-99)
in its tenth year (4,226)- Phantom closing Oct. 31/99 more than 7 million people
have seen, the longest running musical in Canadian theatre history – see
Imperial

Pantages Hotel – new
venue on Victoria Street, features spa

Pape – 336 Pape and Gerrard – 419 seats
(1940-1955) – see Park

Papermill Theatre – see East Side Players resident company for 35 years along with other companies – newly renovated 166 seats
– near Broadview & Danforth – Todmorden Mills, 67 Pottery Road – now known as The Papermill Theatre – building has had many incarnations – papermill, riding stable, day care, art club. In 1974 the City of Toronto offered part of the space to East Side Players who transformed it into a theatre which they called The Mill. From that time until 2003, East Side Players was the sole group to perform there. In Spring 2003 the theatre was closed for major renovations. When it opened again in the fall of 2005 the City opened the space up to other performing groups as well as corporate and other users, but East Side Players (www.eastsideplayers.ca) continue to offer high quality, engaging and affordable productions as the Resident Theatre Company

Paradise Cinema (Festival) – 1006 Bloor
St. West, west of Ossington, was Kitchener – opened as Bloor Palace with 643
seats – 1939 became the New Paradise and later shortened to Paradise – still
operating as repertory cinema – to be shut down

Paramount – 1069 St. Clair Ave West –
432 seats (1935-1957) – now retail stores

Paramount – Queen St. West

Paramount – 1069 St. Clair West

*Paramount
Canada’s Wonderland – Vaughan, Ontario – built as Canada’s Wonderland,
prior to sale to Paramount – Kingswood Music Theatre (16,000 seats)- major stars
like Bette Midler, rock groups – sold to Cedar Fair LP, Ohio-based amusement
park operator May 2006 – see Canada’s Wonderland

Paramount Toronto at Festival Hall (FP)
- 259 Richmond Avenue West at John St – opened May 19, 1999 with new stadium
style seating cinemas – 15 cinemas of varying sizes with wall to wall screens,
THX and digital sound, and includes a IMAX 3-D theatre – renamed Jan/07 to
Scotiabank Theatre Toronto

Park – opened as Bedford – 3291 Yonge
Street – 1162 seats – 1929 – became the Park in 1948 – closed 1961 – now retail
store Storkland

Park – see Pape

Park – Lansdowne and Bloor (1919-1937)

Park – 3291 Yonge Street at Lawrence –
847 seats (1949-1984)- across from Fairlawn Theatre – was operated by Famous
Players through 1970s – closed in 1980s

Parkdale – 1866 Queen Street West – see
Allen – 1921 – now a mall

Parkdale Theatre – 1605 Queen Street West, east of Roncesvalles –
1405 seats (1924-1970) – now retail stores

Parkway Drive-in

Parkway 6 – Hwy 404 and Highway 7 – 6
screens (1989-2001)

Parliament – 425 Parliament St – 773
seats (1929-1963)

Passe Muraille – see Theatre Passe
Muraille

Pea Green Theatre Group – 60 Lindsay
Ave

Pear’s Cabaret – see Shubert’s

Penny Farthing – 114 Yorkville Avenue coffee house 1960s – swimming pool, bikini clad waitresses – Murray McLaughlin, Ian and Sylvia, Joni Mitchell, Gordon Lightfoot, Ronnie Hawkins

Peoples – Queen St. West

Philosopher’s Stage – summer outdoor theatre on campus of University of
Toronto’s philosopher’s walk

*
Phoenix Concert Theatre – 410 Sherbourne Street – 1,000 person capacity cabaret type venue
- built in 1853 in the gaslight section of old Toronto

Phoenix Theatre (1975-1983) started by
Graham Harley on Dupont Street (135 seats) – Butley 1975; Canadian Gothic and
American Modern, Sea 1977; Ashes 1978, American Buffalo 1978; Chinchilla (79),
Find Your Way Home – 1983 ceased operations – closed

Photodrome – 39 Queen Street West – circa 1917, west of Bay,
to east of the Bay Theatre – built as the Ace

Piccolo Teatro – 1949-76 – Italian
theatre company

Pickford – 382 Queen St. West at
Spadina – in 1908 opened as the Auditorium – in 1913 it became the Avenue – in
1915 it became the Pickford, named after Mary Pickford – in 1945 it became the
Variety – closed in 1950s – demolished and is now a MacDonalds

Pilot Tavern (22 Cumberland Street) –
famous in the 1950s for live entertainment – local jazz club

Pinewood Toronto Studios – largest movie complex in the city, wants to build homes that mimic the streetscapes of iconic North American neighbourhoods, to include locations such as Soho in New York, Chicago’s Loop area, and Charing Cross in London

Pix – opened as the Aster – 233
Ossington Ave, S of Dundas – 454 seats (1942-1961) – now a bank

P.K. Creek Bar and Grill – 255 Dundas
St. West

Planet Hollywood – locations in New
York, Paris, London, Tokyo and New movie themed restaurant near base of CN Tower
closed January 2006 after a decade in business

Platform 9 Theatre – 793 Euclid Avenue

Playhouse – 344 College Street – became
the Melody and All Nations – now apartment building

Playhouse – Mount Pleasant – cinema
turned into a legitimate house and now back again – Barbara Cook 1981; The Land
of Smiles 1984; Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, Spring Thaw,
Touch Kiss, Your Own Thing, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown;

Plaza 2 Cinema – Bloor and Yonge Street
in Hudsons Bay complex, with underground lobby (1976-2001) – now closed

Plaza Flamingo – 423 College Street

Pleiades Theatre – 56 O’Hara Avenue

*Poor
Alex – 296 Brunswick Street – (120 seats) – small intimate theatre
rented to various companies over the years – In 1972/73 a number of plays were
presented: A Bond Honoured, All Over, Aspern Papers, Capful of Pennies, Dressing
Gown, Garden District, Jest Society, Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore,
Rehearsal, Right Honourable Gentleman; Blue Room (01) – second floor of the
defunct Poor Alex Theatre is going from cabaret to movie house, with a bill
exclusively featuring documentaries that focus on social, political and
environmental issues; just opened the Brunswick Theatre in the century-old
building south of Bloor St. W. on Brunswick Ave – 100-seat theatre

Poor Alex Theatre – 772A Dundas St. West -
sold in August 2005 and The Poor Alex Theatre relocated to 772A Dundas St.W. one
block west of Bathurst St. The new venue space with 200 seating capacity has
been designed for multi tasking any type of event and rigged with full lighting
and audio capabilities for a professionally staged performance – Vaginismus -
starts May 16/08;

Ports Dinner Theatre (Ports of Call) –
early 1980s – former Toronto restaurant and cabaret – Yonge Street and
Summerhill – featuring themed restaurants like Dickens Room, Bali Hai Room etc

Potato Blues – 115 John Street – local
jazz club

*Premiere
Dance Theatre – 207 Queen’s Quay West – see Harbourfront Centre – Play
About the Baby (02); now Fleck Dance Theatre

Prince Edward Theatre (Fox) and Apartments

Prince James – West Toronto Junction

Prince of Wales – 2094 Danforth Ave –
1200 seats (1927-1966)

Prince of Wales Theatre – see Royal
Lyceum

*Princess
of Wales – 300 King Street West (2,000 seats) – opened May 1993 with
*Miss Saigon (3332)TICKETS ONLINE – new
home of The Lion King (2000); now Hairspray (2004); Lord of the Rings 2006 (31
weeks only)

Princess Theatre – (1909-1934) – Church
and Adelaide Streets – Deborah 1913

Princess Theatre – (1895-1930) 167 King
Street West, South side West of York, opened 1889 as the Academy of Music –
first public building in city with electric lights – had banquet room, art
gallery, drawing room and ballroom – atmospheric style – provided venues for
large-scale foreign touring companies – burned down and rebuilt – renamed the
Princess in 1895 after being refurbished – 1800 seats – Faust; David Garrick -
burned again 1915 and reopened as the New Princess in 1917 – operated into the
1930s – Madam Butterfly 1907 – demolished in 1934 to become an electrical shop
and for the widening of University Avenue

Promenade 6 Street (1896-2001) – reopened as Rainbow Cinemas 2002

Q

Queen – (1935-1944)

Queen – 414 seats (1979-1980)

*Queen
Elizabeth Theatre – Exhibition Grounds – 1325 seats – Peter Allen

Queen Royal – Yonge and St. Clair
(1929-1930)

Queens Theatre – (1874-1883) – 1000
seat vaudeville and variety house – demolished

Queensway (C) – 1025 The Queensway @ Islington, Etobicoke – 18 screens

Quotes Bar and Grill – feature free
live bands at least once a week

R

Radio City – 1454 Bathurst St. at St.
Clair – live shows – 833 seats (1936-1975) – now retail stores

Rainbow Cinemas 8 (I) – Woodbine
Shopping Centre – 500 Rexdale Boulevard

Rainbow Cinemas 6 (I) – Bathurst and
Centre Streets, Thornhill – was Cineplex Odeon Promenade

Rainbow Cinemas 6 (I) – 1800 Sheppard
Ave E – see also Fairview Mall

Rainbow Cinemas Market Square (I) – 80
Front Street East – opening June 20/03 – see Market Square

Rainbow Promenade (I) – Promenade Mall
– Hwy 7 & Bathurst St. – see also Promenade 6

Rancho Relaxo – cabaret type venue –
300 College Street

Randolph Academy – established by former Alvin Ailey dancer (joined Les
Ballets Jazz de Montreal in 1980, took over Les Ballet Jazz Dance Centre in
Toronto, which became the Randolph Dance Theatre), George Randolph in 1992 – in
March, 2001, the academy outgrew its Gloucester location and moved into the
Bathurst Street Theatre, which had been built in 1862 as a United Church – the
site has the Annex Theatre, which resembles the Globe in London, England – a 110
seat theatre, the 500 seat Bathurst Street Theatre, three dance studios and
DaCosta Talent Agency

*Red
Barn Theatre – 991 Lake Drive, Jackson’s Point on Lake Simcoe – Canada’s
oldest professional summer theatre – summer stock theatre operated since 1948 in
a barn built in 1876 – many actors have worked here including Marigold
Charlesworth, Jean Roberts, Bill Glassco, Araby Lockhart, Sylvia Lennick -
Arsenic and Old Lace (1444), Bus Stop, Dial M for Murder, Dream Girl, 5th
Season, For Love or Money, Fourposter, Harvey (1775), Laura, Little Hut, Moon is
Blue (924), Murder Without Crime, My Three Angels, Oh Men Oh Women, Oh Mr.
Meadowbrook, Period of Adjustment, Rain, Raise Your Hat, Say Who You Are, Seven
Year Itch (1141), Solid Gold Cadillac, Streetcar Named Desire (855), Summer and
Smoke, Summer of the 17th Doll, Tender Trap, Vinegar Tree, Voice of the Turtle
(1557)

Red Guitar Art House Cafe

Red Light Theatre (1974-1977) devoted
to plays about women’s issues and women playwrights

Red Mill – see Theatorium – 183 Yonge Street

Red One – founded by Benjamin Blais – productions presented in various different venues – lot of times venue announced when ticket purchased – Mojo

Red Square – see Dream

Regal – Bloor Street West (1944-1945)

Regent – Bloor and Bathurst – see
Baronet

Regent – see Ambrose Smalls Grand Opera
House

Regent – 225 Queen St. East near
Sherbourne – 516 seats (1919-1950) – built as the Moss Park, currently the
Anishnawbe Centre

Regent Theatre (I) – 551 Mount Pleasant
Road at Davisville – 1988 – 640 seats – still in operation

Regent Theatre -27 Adelaide St. West -
situated beside the Grand Opera House – see Majestic – torn down

Remain in Light

Renaissance Convention Centre – 3045
Southcreek Drive, Mississauga

Renne Theatre

Reo – Queen St. West – demolished

Republik – 261 Richmond St. – capacity
is 1,200 with three rooms – new nightclub venue

Reverb/Kathedral/Holy Joe’s – cabaret
type venue – 651 Queen Street West

Revival – 783 College Street -
nightclub

Revue Cinema
(Festival) – 400 Roncesvalles Ave – built 1911 – 521 seats – repertory
cinema – closing end of June 2006 – sold privately – one of the longest running
theatres in Ontario, never having closed its doors in its 84-year history – not
sure of fate of theatre – chance of reopening Fall 2007 under new ownership

Rex – see Joy – Mimico – 127 Lakeshore
Road – 494 seats (1931-1960)

Rexall Centre Sports and Entertainment Complex – (York University, 1 Shoreham Dr (Keele St. South of Steeles Ave) – home of

Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts – Yonge and Wright Streets,
Richmond Hill – 600 seat auditorium, to house original 1897 school house -
opening August 2008

Ricoh Colisseum – 100 Princes Blvd.,
Exhibition Place – opening November 2003 – Located inside the National Trade
Centre at Exhibtion Place, Toronto’s newest arena is home to the Toronto
Roadrunners of the American Hockey League. With a 10,000-seat capacity the venue
is ideal for concerts, family shows and sporting events – current tenants
leaving so fate is up in the air as of July 2004

Rio Theatre – 373 Yonge St. below
Gerrard Street – 500 seats (1939-1990 – opened as National 1913 and became the
Rio in 1943 – now adult video store

Riverboat Coffee House – 134 Yorkville
Avenue, circa 1960-early 1970s – home to various folk artists during the hippie
era – Louis Killen, Odetta, Neil Young, Gordon Lightfoot, Simon and Garfunkel,
Joni Mitchell, Ian and Sylvia, Lonnie Johnson, Steve Goodman, Tim Hardin, Phil
Ochs, willie P. Bennett, Tom Rush – closed 1978

Rivoli – see The Rivoli –
comedy-friendly bar

Rivoli Tavern – cabaret type venue –
332 Queen Street West

*Robert
Gill Theatre – 214 College Street (170 seats) – see Central Library
Theatre

Robinson’s Musee Theatre – S.E. corner
of Yonge and Richmond – 1890 – featured freak shows, magic lantern and movies – 2nd floor was waxworks and curiosity museum of P.T. Barnum –
plaque on building where theatre was originally

Rockit – cabaret type venue – 120
Church Street – closed several times – upcoming concerts cancelled as of Feb/05

Rock’n Roll Heaven – Hudson’s Bay
Centre – lower level, 2 Bloor St. East – 1980s – closed 1992

Rogers Centre – formerly the SkyDome,
renamed 2005

Roxy
– Brampton – 618 seats (1949-1960)

Roundhouse Theatre – 1000 seat tented venue located in Roundhouse Park – Toronto’s newest venue will be located beside the old CN Roundhouse – now the Steam Whistle Brewery – in Roundhouse Park, at Bremner Blvd. and Lower Simcoe St., below the CN Tower, beside the Rogers Centre and within walking distance of the restaurants and attractions of the Entertainment District – home of the Toronto Rail Heritage Centre, features fun and lively new “museum” attractions maintained by the Toronto Railway Historical Association. Built around an old railway turntable, the park has original steam locomotive water and coaling towers, an historic railway station (which will become the theatre box office), a collection of working steam and diesel locomotives and even a miniature passenger-carrying steam train. Roundhouse Park brings back the thrilling sights and sounds of Toronto’s railroading past, making it the perfect place to stage The Railway Children! – opening May 3/11 for 26 weeks

*York
University – Joseph
G. Green Studio Theatre -
Burton
Auditorium -(600 seats) -
Centre for Fine Arts
- 4700 Keele Street – Burton Hall – Department of Dance is Canada’s oldest and
largest University dance department – Polish Mime, an Evening with Jerry Herman

York University Stadium – York University
announced Oct 18/04 that an agreement has been reached for the construction of a
new 25,000-seat stadium on the York University Keele campus, opening 2006. The
stadium will be the new home of the Toronto Argonauts and a world-class venue
for Canadian soccer, and will host the FIFA Men’s Under-20 World Youth
Championship in the summer of 2007, and also be a new venue for concerts

Yorkville Town Hall – Yonge Street North of
Bloor

Yorkwoods Library – 1785 Finch Avenue

Young
Centre for the Performing Arts – opening Feb 1/06 with “Our Town,” -also see
Distillery District – new site to house
Soulpepper Theatre Company – and George Brown Theatre School – two former
brick Gooderham and Worts Distillery warehouses – to open 2005 with George Brown
classes beginning Sept/05 and the Soulpepper Company starting Dec/05 – there
will be 4 theatrical venues – from 80 to 400 seat theatres, the 250 seat theatre
will be called the Michael Young Theatre – 3 large rehearsal spaces as well as
classrooms and administrative offices – organizations as diverse as Nightwood
Theatre, Tapestry Music Theatre, Ballet Jsrgen and Random House are booked to
use the facilities

*Young
Peoples Theatre – 165 Front Street East – founded in 1966 by Susan Douglas
Rubes as the only theatre centre in English Canada devoted exclusively to
programs for young people – houses two theatres – the main stage Susan Rubes -
468 seats and the 115 seat Nathan Cohen Studio Theatre – operates out of a
former Toronto Transit Commission generating station at 165 Front Street.
Originally built as stables for horses of the Toronto Street Railway, the
building was converted to a generating station when electric power replaced
horse power. In 1906 the company began purchasing power from Niagara and shut
the generators down. For more than half a century the building was used for
storage or sat empty. It was saved from demolition in 1977 when the Young
People’s Theatre converted it to theatre and studio space – first production was
Lost Fairy Tale – Dandy Lion 1966; Little Red Riding Hood 1968; Popcorn Man
1969; Diary of Anne Frank 1977 – returns to being Young People’s Theatre in July, 2011

Yuk Yuks Komedy Kabaret – started 1975 at
519 Church St before moving to Bay Street

Yuk Yuk’s East – 235 Bayly, Ajax

Yuk Yuk’s Supperclub – 2335 Yonge Street

Yuk Yuk’s West – 5165 Dixie Road,
Mississauga

Z

Zanzibar Tavern – Yonge street r & b club of mid 1960s and early 1970s – still in existence as lap dance palace

Zingaro Productions – 92 Lowther Avenue

Zocalo Toronto – 688 Richmond St. W – new production company (2007) and a
new small theatre space

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