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The Elgin Theatre can refer to: Elgin Theatre (Ottawa) in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a former movie cinema that was the first twin cinema in North America; Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Elgin Theater, a former movie cinema in New York City, USA, substantially renovated in the 1980s and now known as the Joyce Theater
Since 1979, the Elgin Theatre has served as one of the hosts to the annual Toronto International Film Festival. [6] In 1981, the Ontario Heritage Foundation bought the structure from Famous Players. [2] The Elgin was closed as a movie theatre on November 15, 1981; [7] the final film presented at the theatre was What the Swedish Butler Saw. [8]
The Elgin Theater is a former movie theater on the corner of 19th Street and Eighth Avenue in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The theater showed films from its opening in 1942 until 1978. Its longtime manager, Ben Barenholtz, invented midnight movie programming for the theater.
In 1953, the Screen Actors Guild agreed to a residuals payment plan that greatly facilitated the distribution of B movies to television. [3] A number of local television stations around the United States soon began showing inexpensive genre films in late-night slots; these late-night slots were after the safe-harbor time, meaning they were largely exempt from Federal Communications Commission ...
The sorry state of affairs for the Elgin & Winter Garden Theatres would turn around in the 1980s, when the Ontario Heritage Trust purchased the theatres and refurbished them, staging major productions like Cats. [6] The late 1960s and early 1970s were especially fruitful years for theatre in Toronto.
Elgin, Illinois 60120 The Hemmens Cultural Center is a 1,200-seat theatre in Elgin, Illinois , United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is the home of the Elgin Symphony Orchestra .
The Playhouse Theatre was a Broadway theater at 137 West 48th Street in midtown Manhattan, New York City. Charles A. Rich was the architect. It was built in 1911 for producer William A. Brady who also owned the nearby 48th Street Theatre. After 1944, it was sold to the Shubert Organization. From 1949 to 1952, it was an ABC Radio studio.
The Liberty Theatre is a former Broadway theater at 234 West 42nd Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.Opened in 1904, the theater was designed by Herts & Tallant and built for Klaw and Erlanger, the partnership of theatrical producers Marc Klaw and A. L. Erlanger.