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The old Detroit Opera House on Campus Martius in the early 1900s. Detroit has a long theatrical history, with many venues dating back to the 1920s. [7] The Detroit Fox Theatre (1928) was the first theater ever constructed with built-in film sound equipment.
The Fox Theatre is a performing arts center located at 2211 Woodward Avenue in Downtown Detroit, Michigan, near the Grand Circus Park Historic District. Opened in 1928 as a flagship movie palace in the Fox Theatres chain, it was at over 5,000 seats the largest theater in the city.
The Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts is a 1,731-seat theatre located in the city's theatre district at 350 Madison Street in Downtown Detroit, Michigan.It was built in 1928 as the Wilson Theatre, designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1976, [2] and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
The Nederlander Organization, a major theatrical producer, began in Detroit with a 99-year lease on the Old Detroit Opera House in 1912. [3] The present Detroit Opera House opened in 1922 and was known as the Capitol Theatre. It was among the first of several performance venues built around Detroit's Grand Circus Park. When it opened, the ...
The Players Club of Detroit was founded in 1911 by a group of local Detroit businessmen as an institution to encourage amateur theater. [3] From the beginning, it was a strictly male club. [ 2 ] For the first 15 years of the club's existence, they were forced to perform in different venues each month, including the Detroit Athletic Club , the ...
The Alger Theater is a historic theater at 16451 East Warren Avenue in the MorningSide neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan. It is one of only two remaining intact and unchanged neighborhood theaters in the city of Detroit (the second being the Redford Theatre ). [ 2 ]
Until December 29, 1971, it was a first-run movie house and office space, and then after that, the theatre saw sporadic usage until 1973. The United Artists Theatre, designed in a Spanish-Gothic design, sat 2,070 people, and after closing served from 1978 to 1983 as the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's recording theater. After the theater closed ...
The Bonstelle Theatre is a theater and former synagogue owned by Wayne State University, located at 3424 Woodward Avenue (the southeast corner of Woodward and Eliot) in the Midtown Woodward Historic District of Detroit, Michigan. [2] It was built in 1902 as the Temple Beth-El, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [1]