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Craig Noel (August 25, 1915 – April 3, 2010) was an American theatre producer. He was the founding director of the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California, and led it for more than 60 years. He "helped transform it from an insular community group into an influential powerhouse among regional theaters." [1]
The 10-story Detroit Fox Theatre building also contains the headquarters of Olympia Entertainment, while the St. Louis Fox is a stand-alone theatre. The architectural plaster molds of the Detroit Fox (1928) were re-used on the St. Louis Fox (1929). The Fox opened in 1928 and remained Detroit's premier movie destination for decades.
He was the Editorial Page Editor and a columnist for the Detroit Free Press from 2009 to 2017. [8] Henderson has hosted the daily talk show "Detroit Today" on WDET since 2015, and he hosts the weekly talk show "American Black Journal" on Detroit Public Television and co-hosts the news show "MiWeek" on Detroit Public Television.
Folks looking for a fun, irreverent bit of holiday fun should visit Detroit Public Theatre (DPT) for their “Holiday Cabaret,” a merry, frothy, breezy 70 minutes of winter season song and antics.
The Fillmore Detroit is a multi-use entertainment venue operated by Live Nation. Built in 1925, the Fillmore Detroit was known for most of its history as the State Theatre . It is located near the larger Fox Theatre in the Detroit Theatre District along Woodward Avenue across from Comerica Park and Grand Circus Park .
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 play ran at the Globe Theatre for 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 years, from March 1966 until 6 August 1969, when it transferred to the Comedy Theatre, opening there on 18 August 1969 and closing in 1973 after 2,547 performances. [4] [3] It was unprecedented for a comedy to run for such a long time.
The first movie theater in Detroit, the Casino, was opened on Monroe Avenue in 1906 by John H. Kunsky. [7] It was reputedly the second movie theatre in the world, [7] and it propelled Kunsky to a 20-theatre empire worth $7 million in 1929. [7] Later in 1906, Detroit's second movie theatre, the Bijou, opened literally two doors down from the ...