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The following is a list of active theatres and concert halls in Scotland. They are organised alphabetically by name. In rural areas, church halls and town halls may double up as theatres, and that many colleges and universities also have their own auditoria.
Glasgow Film Theatre was built as the Cosmo by George Singleton in 1939. Main entrance. GFT's predecessor, the Cosmo, was Scotland's first arts cinema and only the second purpose-built arthouse in Britain, after the Curzon Mayfair in London. Opened on 18 May 1939, it was also the last cinema to be built in Glasgow before the outbreak of WW2. [2]
The Playhouse was at 126 Renfield Street, Glasgow, Scotland, commissioned by George Green Ltd, designed by the architect John Fairweather, and built by the Cinema Building Company. Opened in 1927, the Playhouse operated until the 1970s, a decline in audience numbers in the 1960s necessitated diversification as a music venue until
Pages in category "Theatres in Glasgow" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Alexandra Music Hall;
The Metropole Theatre started as the Scotia and was built in 1862 at 116, Stockwell Street, Glasgow, Scotland.Built to the designs of architect Robert Black [1] for James Baylis, who later built the Theatre Royal [2] [3] in the Cowcaddens area of the city, it opened as the Scotia Hall, [4] holding over 3000 people, with stalls and two galleries, reputed to be the first purpose built commercial ...
The first Locarno was created in 1926 on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow, in the shell of the Charing Cross Electric Theatre, Glasgow's first purpose built cinema. [3] This was designed by Robert Duncan in 1898 with a cast iron structure but with a traditional stone frontage with high numbers of large windows (certainly more glazing than a ...
The Citizens' Theatre repertory was founded in 1943 by dramatist and screenwriter James Bridie, [3] [4] author of around forty plays presented in Britain and overseas, art gallery director Tom Honeyman, [5] [6] cinema impresario George Singleton, known by many as "Mr Cosmo", whose headquarter cinema continues today as the Glasgow Film Theatre ...
It was always regarded as a modern theatre and one of the No 1 theatres, known also as A1 theatres, of which by the 1960s there were only 14 remaining in Britain. Throughout most of its life the theatre was owned by Glasgow Alhambra Ltd. In the 1920s it formed an association with Moss Empires who bought 20% of the company shareholding. [3]