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The Virginia Theatre hosts a wide variety of events throughout the year. Classic films play on the 56-foot-wide screen several nights every month. The theatre is also a popular venue for touring musical acts and comedians. From 1992 until 2010, the Champaign-Urbana Theatre Company, or CUTC, performed plays at the theatre.
Virginia Theater [6] 203 W Park Street 1921 Italian Renaissance Revival, Spanish Revival November 28, 2003 Wee Haven: 1509 W Park Avenue 1925 Prairie School December 15, 2011 West Side Park: Women's Town Club (Buzzard Organ Factory) 112 W Hill Street 1897 Richardsonian Romanesque
Opened May 1875 as the Boyston Museum, both a variety theatre and dime museum. [6] Later known as the Star Novelty Theatre at the New Boylston Museum. [7] Lothrop acquired the 661, 663, and 665 Washington St properties, and the theatre and museum were substantially expanded into the new World's Museum (1885-1892); [8] also a theatre and dime ...
Its original Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ [13] has been maintained by Warren York since 1988 and is still played regularly. The Art Theater [14] in downtown Champaign began as Champaign's first theatre devoted to movies, the Park, in 1912, and is a small venue showing films not normally playing at the box office. The theatre is the only single ...
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Plays were banned in Boston by the Puritans until 1792. [5] [6] Boston's first theater opened in 1793. [7] [8] In 1900, the Boston Theater District had 31 theaters, with 50,000 seats. [6] In the 1940s, the city had over 50 theaters. [2] Since the 1970s, developers have renovated old theaters. [2]
The statue (visible at left in 2017) was unveiled outside of the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Illinois, on April 24, 2014, during Ebertfest.[13]At noon on April 24, 2014, during the second day of that year's Ebertfest, Donna and Scott Anderson officially unveiled the statue outside of the theater.
November 6, 1917 65th: Willfred W. Lufkin : Republican: November 6, 1917 – June 30, 1921 65th 66th 67th: Elected to finish Gardner's term. Re-elected in 1918. Re-elected in 1920. Resigned to become Collector of Customs for the Port of Boston: Vacant: June 30, 1921 – September 27, 1921 67th: Abram Andrew : Republican: September 27, 1921 ...