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Adjacent are a 14,396-square-foot (1,337.4 m 2) exhibit hall with 10,000 square feet (930 m 2) of column-free space, and a 2,440-seat theatre that can be used for concerts, Broadway shows, the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra and other special events. The theatre features a 55-foot (17 m)-by-105-foot stage; 1,625 seats in the theatre are in the ...
The theater began its life in 1964 as the Roanoke Summer Theater, located in the former Rockledge Inn that had been built at the summit of Mill Mountain in 1891. [1] [2] After one season, the group changed its name to Mill Mountain Playhouse. [3] The Grandin Theatre in 2023
The Buchanan Theatre is a historic theater in Buchanan, Virginia. It was built in 1917 and underwent a 1949 renovation in the Moderne style. The brick building is two-storied, with apartments occupying the second floor. The theater closed in 1985 and sat empty until being purchased in 1999 and renovated over the next 18 months.
Actor Andy Griffith, who performed at the production's Waterside Theatre on Roanoke Island from 1947 to 1953, liked Manteo so much he decided to live there permanently. North Carolina State Senator Marc Basnight was born in Manteo; he performed in the role of a colonist child in the play.
In 1939, the theatre first presented the Barter Theatre Award "for the outstanding performance by an American player." [27] The initial recipient was Laurette Taylor, and the 1940 award went to Dorothy Stickney. Each winner received an acre of mountain land near Abingdon and a Virginia ham and selected two actors to perform with the theatre. [27]
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Hull's Drive In is a 319-space [1] drive-in theatre in Lexington, Virginia, [2] one of the seven drive-in theatres still currently operating in Virginia. [3] It is one of only two non-profit drive-in theaters in the United States, [4] the other being Warner's in nearby Franklin, West Virginia.
Carolina Crossroads is a 1,000-acre (4.0 km 2) planned entertainment development near Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina located near the intersection of I-95 and US 158.The development was hoped to bring new jobs to the area which had been affected in recent years as textile mills closed and jobs moved out of the area.