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The Historic Elitch Theatre is located at the original Elitch Gardens site in northwest Denver, Colorado. Opened in 1890, it was centerpiece of the park that was the first zoo west of Chicago. The theatre was Denver's first professional theatre, serving as home to America's first and oldest summer-stock theatre company from 1893 until the 1960s.
Landmark Theatres is a movie theatre chain founded in 1974 in the United States. It was formerly dedicated to exhibiting and marketing independent and foreign films. [1] Landmark consists of 34 theatres with 176 screens in 24 markets. It is known for both its historic and newer, more modern theatres. [2]
The Mayan Theater is a movie house that opened in Denver, Colorado in 1930 and was part of the Fox Theater Corporation and Fox Intermountain Theaters. Its life as a Fox Theater is denoted on top of its neon marquee. As with many theaters across the U.S., it ran a slate of A and B movies throughout the day.
The Mayan Theater opened in August 1927 as a performance arts theater specializing in musical comedy. [1]Leon Hefflin Sr. rented out the Mayan Theater downtown Los Angeles to produce the Sweet N' Hot, "Greatest Negro All Star Musical to Hit Coast."
The City and County of Denver has a formal historic designation program that establishes Denver landmarks. These are designated by ordinances of Denver's city council. [ 1 ] The first three sites so designated, on January 10, 1968, are the Emmanuel/Sherith Chapel , Constitution Hall (site) (destroyed by fire in 1977), and the Governor's Mansion .
The Denver Performing Arts Complex (also referred to as the "Arts Complex") in Denver, Colorado, is one of the largest performing arts centers in the United States. The DCPA is a four-block, 12-acre (49,000 m 2 ) site containing ten performance spaces with over 10,000 seats connected by an 80-foot-tall (24 m) glass roof. [ 1 ]
Then, like other large movie theatres, its patronage declined as population and commerce dispersed into new suburban areas. By 1978, it was the last movie palace left in Denver, and started hosting opera with a production of Madama Butterfly in October 1978 by the Denver Opera Company. [ 3 ]
A. Mississippi Lofts and Adler Theatre; AFI Silver; Alabama Theatre (Houston) Alameda Theatre (Alameda, California) Alberta Bair Theater; Alex Theatre; Alger Theater