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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.
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. Rapp and Rapp's 1914 Orpheum ...
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.
Jul. 26—CHAMPAIGN — Dr. William Youngerman is no stranger to redevelopment projects in downtown Champaign, and now he's planning another one — pending city council approval — for a city ...
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
At every festival since 2002, all patrons waiting in line for sold-out films were able to gain entry to the theatre. [53] Passes for the first Ebertfest in 1999 cost $30, and individual film tickets were $5. [27] In 2016, passes cost $150, and individual film tickets were $15. [54] In 2023, passes cost $200 and individual film tickets were $20 ...
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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