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The Virginia Theatre opened December 28, 1921 with a live stage performance of The Bat. The following night, the silent films Tol'able David and The Boat were shown at the theatre. Since then, it has been presenting movies, live concerts, and plays to the Champaign-Urbana community and has only been closed for short periods of renovation by the ...
Its original Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ [13] has been maintained by Warren York since 1988 and is still played regularly. The Art Theater [14] in downtown Champaign began as Champaign's first theatre devoted to movies, the Park, in 1912, and is a small venue showing films not normally playing at the box office. The theatre is the only single ...
The statue (visible at left in 2017) was unveiled outside of the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Illinois, on April 24, 2014, during Ebertfest.[13]At noon on April 24, 2014, during the second day of that year's Ebertfest, Donna and Scott Anderson officially unveiled the statue outside of the theater.
Virginia Theatre (Champaign) W. Will Rogers Theatre and Commercial Block; Z. Zoe Theatre This page was last edited on 22 February 2017, at 15:58 ... Mobile view ...
Orpheum Theater (RKO Orpheum Theatre) 346-352 N Neil Street 1914 Classical Revival exterior; French Renaissance interior February 28, 1991 Park Theater (Art Theater Co-Op) 126-128 W Church Street 1913 Classical Revival Phi Delta Theta: 309 E Chalmers Street 1922 Tudor Revival February 25, 2004 Prayer for Rain Statue West Side Park: 1899
English: A statue of film critic Roger Ebert giving his trademark "thumbs up" gesture outside the Virginia Theater in Champaign, IL Object location 40° 07′ 01.99″ N, 88° 14′ 43.4″ W
The theatre was the only single-screen movie theatre with daily operation as a movie theatre in Champaign-Urbana. The theater ceased operations on October 31 of 2019. [25] The Virginia, which hosts Roger Ebert's Annual Overlooked Film Festival, is also single-screen, but only opens for special showings and events.
The Champaign City Building serves as the City Hall and is a recognizable landmark. The building replaces the original city building, which sat on the same site until 1937. A statue of Roger Ebert giving his "thumbs up" outside the Virginia Theatre. The historic Virginia Theatre is a restored 1463-seat movie theater which opened on December 28 ...