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  2. Regal Theater, Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Both theaters were able to attract several big names but, due to its size and central location, the Regal was arguably able to book bigger acts. Prior to the opening of the Regal, Chicago experienced the Great Migration , which brought a large number of blacks from the south into the city looking for a new life and work.

  3. List of theaters in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Chicago Center for the Performing Arts [73] Compass Players; Defiant Theatre; The Ethiopian Art Theatre/Players; Famous Door Theatre [74] First Folio Theatre (Oak Brook) Goat Island; Happy Happy Good Show; The Hypocrites [75] Illinois Theatre Center; Improv Institute; Infamous Commonwealth Theatre [76] Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company; New Age ...

  4. Biograph Theater - Wikipedia

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    From the 1970s through the 1980s, the Biograph was the center in Chicago for midnight showings, with raucous costumed cult following, of Rocky Horror Picture Show. [ 5 ] In July 2004, after 90 years as a movie theater under various owners, Chicago's Victory Gardens Theater announced it had purchased the Biograph for use as a live venue.

  5. Kerasotes Theatres - Wikipedia

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    Kerasotes on Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Kerasotes Showplace Theatres, LLC was a movie theatre operator in the United States. Based in Chicago, Kerasotes Showplace Theatres, LLC was the sixth-largest movie-theatre company in North America which had some 957 screens in 95 locations in California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, and ...

  6. Kino Lorber Buys North American Rights to John Lennon and ...

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    Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to “Daytime Revolution,” a documentary about the week that John Lennon and Yoko Ono co-hosted “The Mike Douglas Show” in early 1972. Directed ...

  7. Avalon Regal Theater - Wikipedia

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    [8] [12] In September 2018, Rapper and Chicago native Kanye West committed to help restore the theater, pledging to donate $1 million dollars. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] The Chicago Regal Foundation was created to raise funds to reopen and operate the Avalon Regal Theater, and offers tours of the building during the Chicago Architecture Foundation 's annual ...

  8. Drury Lane Theatre (Illinois) - Wikipedia

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    Drury Lane Evergreen Park was DeSantis's first theatre in the Chicago area. It opened in 1958 and was a local entertainment landmark for 45 years before closing in 2003. [3] Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace opened in 1984, and is located at the intersection of Kingery Highway, Butterfield Road, and Illinois Route 38 (Roosevelt Road) in Oakbrook ...

  9. Chicago Theatre - Wikipedia

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    The Chicago Theatre, originally known as the Balaban and Katz Chicago Theatre, is a landmark theater located on North State Street in the Loop area of Chicago, Illinois. Built in 1921, the Chicago Theatre was the flagship for the Balaban and Katz (B&K) group of theaters run by A. J. Balaban, his brother Barney Balaban and partner Sam Katz. [5 ...