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The Virginia Theatre hosts a wide variety of events throughout the year. Classic films play on the 56-foot-wide screen several nights every month. The theatre is also a popular venue for touring musical acts and comedians. From 1992 until 2010, the Champaign-Urbana Theatre Company, or CUTC, performed plays at the theatre.
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 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 ...
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
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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.