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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
[6] [7] [8] The Public Art League, a nonprofit organization, oversaw the project, working in collaboration with the Champaign Park District, the University of Illinois College of Media, and the city governments of both Champaign and Urbana to erect the statue outside of the Virginia Theatre in downtown Champaign.
The theatre was the only single-screen movie theatre with daily operation as a movie theatre in Champaign-Urbana. The theater ceased operations on October 31 of 2019. [25] The Virginia, which hosts Roger Ebert's Annual Overlooked Film Festival, is also single-screen, but only opens for special showings and events.
Location of Champaign County in Illinois. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a ...
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The Champaign-Urbana Theatre Company was formed to perform major musicals and opened their first season with "The Music Man" that June. Control passed to the Virginia Theatre group in 1996 and the theatre became a non-profit public venue. The Champaign Park District assumed control of the facilities in 2000.
English: A statue of film critic Roger Ebert giving his trademark "thumbs up" gesture outside the Virginia Theater in Champaign, IL Object location 40° 07′ 01.99″ N, 88° 14′ 43.4″ W