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The Byham Theater is a landmark building at 101 Sixth Street in the Cultural District of Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Originally built in 1903 as The Gayety Theater , the former vaudeville house was renovated and reopened as The Byham Theater in 1990.
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The Byham Theater, a landmark building at 101 Sixth Street in Downtown Pittsburgh, was the second major theater venue restoration project of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. Built in 1903, the then called Gayety Theater was a stage and Vaudeville house, and it featured stars such as Ethel Barrymore , Gertrude Lawrence , and Helen Hayes .
The Benedum Center for the Performing Arts (formerly the Stanley Theatre) is a theater and concert hall located at 237 7th Street in the Cultural District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Designed by the Philadelphia architectural firm Hoffman-Henon , it was built in 1928 as the Stanley Theatre.
Byham's involvement in Pittsburgh's arts community includes helping to fund the renovation to the former Fulton Theater in the Pittsburgh Cultural District, which re-opened as the Byham Theater, and for bringing Pittsburgh's classical music station to the heart of its downtown Cultural District through the Carolyn M. Byham WQED fm89.3 Studio.
In the early 1910s, concern over the lack of serious or "legitimate" theater in Pittsburgh led to an "art theater movement" that involved the establishment of the Pitt Theatre Company of Pittsburgh in 1913, the Drama League of Pittsburgh in 1912, and 1914, the establishment of the nation's first bachelor of arts degree in theater at Carnegie ...
The Bryce Jordan Center is a 15,261-seat multi-purpose arena in College Township, Pennsylvania, on the University Park campus of the Pennsylvania State University.The arena opened in 1996 and is the largest such venue between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
The venue opened as Coca-Cola Star Lake Amphitheater and hosted its first national act, Billy Joel, on June 17, 1990. [2] A second show was added on June 18, 1990 due to the record-breaking response.