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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.
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 ...
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]
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 theater became a nonprofit public venue. The Champaign Park District assumed control of the facilities in 2000.
Massachusetts House of Representatives' 6th Suffolk district in the United States is one of 160 legislative districts included in the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court. It covers part of the city of Boston in Suffolk County. [1] [2] Democrat Russell Holmes of Mattapan has represented the district since 2011. [3]
The Boch Center (formerly Citi Performing Arts Center and Wang Center for the Performing Arts) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit performing arts organization located in Boston, Massachusetts. It manages the historic Wang and Shubert theatres on Tremont Street in the Boston Theater District , where it offers theatre, opera, classical and popular music ...
[2] [1] Additionally, he established Ebertfest, an annual film festival held at the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Illinois, near his hometown of Urbana, [1] with the intention of screening what he considered to be overlooked films. [3] [4] He died in April 2013 due to cancer. [5] [1] [2] Plans for a statue of Ebert started around 2011. [5]
Company City State Years active Web site Ajkun Ballet Theatre: New York: New York: 2000–present: www.ajkunbt.org: Alabama Ballet: Birmingham: Alabama: 1981–present