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The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust purchased and refurbished the theater as part of its plan for the Cultural District. In 1995, it was renamed The Harris, using a gift from the Buhl Foundation , in honor of John P. Harris , who was a co-founder of the Nickelodeon—the first theater solely dedicated to the showing of motion pictures—and a ...
Row House Cinema is a small, independent cinema in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The theater opened in a historic row house building on Butler Street in Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville neighborhood in 2014. [1] The theater is known for its festivals, events, and its connected taproom and bottle shop Bierport. It is owned by Brian Mendelssohn. [2]
The Byham Theater is a landmark building at 101 Sixth Street in the Cultural District of Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Originally built in 1903 as The Gayety Theater , the former vaudeville house was renovated and reopened as The Byham Theater in 1990.
Icarus of Pittsburgh; 2003. Bringing Down the House #1 Mar. 7–27 Top 5 Mar. 28 – Apr. 17 Top 15 Apr. 18 – May 8 Top 20 May 9–Jun. 12 [11] Steve Martin, Queen Latifah, Eugene Levy; Beautiful Girl; August Underground's Mordum; Vicious; Klownz; Mr. Smith goes to Pittsburgh; Shooting Home; The Battles for Fort Duquesne; 2004. The Clearing ...
The Stanley Theatre was the largest movie theater in Western Pennsylvania. Operated by the Stanley Warner Theatres circuit division of Warner Bros., it was Pittsburgh's main first run house for all Warner Bros. film releases. Frank Sinatra played here December 10, 1943. In 1974 War and King Crimson played at the Stanley. [5]
On June 19, 1905, they opened a small storefront theater with the name on Smithfield Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Although it was not the first theater to show films, a 1919 news article claimed that it was the first theater in the world "devoted exclusively to exhibition of moving picture spectacles". [5]
The O'Reilly Theater is a 650-seat theater building, opened on 11 December 1999, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Located at 621 Penn Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh's Cultural District, the O'Reilly Theater is actually a three-part building: The 65,000 square feet (6,000 m 2) theater (with a 150-seat rehearsal hall), a large parking garage called Theater Square, and the adjacent 23,000 square feet ...
The Byham Theater, a landmark building at 101 Sixth Street in Downtown Pittsburgh, was the second major theater venue restoration project of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. Built in 1903, the then called Gayety Theater was a stage and Vaudeville house, and it featured stars such as Ethel Barrymore, Gertrude Lawrence, and Helen Hayes. It was ...