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B&B Theatres Operating Company, Inc. [1] or simply B&B Theatres is a family-owned and operated American movie theater chain based in Liberty, Missouri. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Founded in 1924, B&B is the fifth-largest theater chain in the United States, operating 500+ screens at 54 locations in 14 US states.
It was founded by actor Timothy Busfield in 1986 as Theatre for Children, Inc., the company's first focus was a touring theatre company for children. [1] The B Street Theatre School Tour (formerly known as Fantasy Theatre) was and continues to be extremely popular in the community— performing 12 times per week, 38 weeks a year.
The theater that would become Fox Theater opened as Iris Theatre in 1918, after that theater relocated from 6415 to 6508 Hollywood Boulevard. The new theater, built in the Romanesque style by Frank Meline for P. Tabor , sat 1000 and was the second movie theater on Hollywood Blvd. [ 1 ]
In 2012, the Pittsburg Theatre Company was designated as the resident theatre company of the California Theatre. [20] Now in its 44th season, the Pittsburg Theatre Company continues its annual performances at the California Theatre. Productions have included Steel Magnolias, Fiddler on the Roof, The Addams Family and It Shoulda Been You. [21]
A number of theatre companies, such as Seattle Children’s Theatre, Imagination Stage, and the Minneapolis Children’s Theatre Company, have been working to create and produce plays and musicals for young audiences that are more intelligent and diverse. [5] Recent work has explored themes that include parental abuse (e.g.
If you're going to shell out the big bucks to see the latest blockbuster, here are a few tips to help keep your spending down.
Beginning around 1912, the period known as the Little Theatre Movement developed in cities and towns across the United States. [1] The artistic community that founded the Pasadena Playhouse was started in 1916 when actor-director Gilmor Brown began producing a series of plays at a renovated burlesque theatre with his troupe "The Gilmor Brown Players".
The Paramount Theatre was built as a movie palace, during the rise of the motion picture industry in the late 1920s.In 1925, Adolph Zukor's Paramount Publix Corporation, the theater division of Paramount Pictures, one of the great studio-theater chains, began a construction program resulting in some of the finest theaters built.