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Sir Matthew Brend (6 February 1600 – 1659) inherited from his father, Nicholas Brend, the land on which the first and second Globe Theatres were built, and which Nicholas Brend had leased on 21 February 1599 for a 31-year term to Cuthbert Burbage, Richard Burbage, William Shakespeare, Augustine Phillips, Thomas Pope, John Heminges, and William Kempe. [1]
The Fox Theatre is a performing arts center located at 2211 Woodward Avenue in Downtown Detroit, Michigan, near the Grand Circus Park Historic District. Opened in 1928 as a flagship movie palace in the Fox Theatres chain, it was at over 5,000 seats the largest theater in the city.
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Fox Theatre in Oakland Fox Theatre in Redwood City, California Fox Theatres was a large chain of movie theaters in the United States dating from the 1920s either built by Fox Film studio owner William Fox , or subsequently merged in 1929 by Fox with the West Coast Theatres chain, to form the Fox West Coast Theatres chain. [ 2 ]
It later operated the Shubert Lafayette Theatre [1] until its demolition in 1964 and the Riviera Theatre, both in Detroit. Since then, the organization has grown to include nine Broadway theaters , making it the second-largest owner of Broadway theaters after the Shubert Organization , and a number of theaters across the United States ...
The Detroit Historic District Commission approved the continued construction of the Schaap Center for Performing Arts 6-0. Controversial arts center, dividing Detroit and Grosse Pointe Park, gets ...
The old Detroit Opera House on Campus Martius in the early 1900s. Detroit has a long theatrical history, with many venues dating back to the 1920s. [7] The Detroit Fox Theatre (1928) was the first theater ever constructed with built-in film sound equipment.
The first movie theater in Detroit, the Casino, was opened on Monroe Avenue in 1906 by John H. Kunsky. [7] It was reputedly the second movie theatre in the world, [7] and it propelled Kunsky to a 20-theatre empire worth $7 million in 1929. [7] Later in 1906, Detroit's second movie theatre, the Bijou, opened literally two doors down from the ...