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Founded in 1809 by the Circus of Pepin and Breschard, "The Walnut" is the oldest theater in America. The Walnut's first theatrical production, The Rivals, was staged in 1812. In attendance were President Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette. [8] Provincial theaters frequently lacked heat and minimal theatrical property ("props") and ...
By 1908 there were thousands of storefront Nickelodeons, Gems and Bijous across North America. A few theaters from the nickelodeon era are still showing films today. The 1913 opening of the Regent Theater in New York City signaled a new respectability for the medium, and the start of the two-decade heyday of American cinema design.
Like many older theaters, the Kentucky Theater fell on hard times in the late 1970s and began showing classic, foreign, and cult films in an effort to appeal to a new generation of movie buffs ...
Plaza 1907 (formerly known as The Plaza Grill and Cinema and Crystal Plaza and The Bijou) is located in Ottawa, Kansas, United States and has been named the "oldest purpose-built cinema in operation in the world", [1] [2] having applied to Guinness World Records in June 2017 and beaten out a theatre in Denmark by two days.
The Minskoff Theatre, Booth Theatre, Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, and John Golden Theatre on West 45th Street in Manhattan's Theater District There are 41 active Broadway theaters listed by The Broadway League in New York City, as well as eight existing structures that previously hosted Broadway theatre. [a] Beginning with the first large long-term theater in the city ...
United States of America 42°42′57″N 87°47′54″W / 42.715833333333°N 87.798333333333°W / 42.715833333333; -87.798333333333 Virginia Theatre
Ramona Theater; Rialto Square Theatre; Rialto Theater (Casper, Wyoming) Rialto Theater (Omaha, Nebraska) Rialto Theatre (Tucson, Arizona) Rig Theater; Ritz (Austin, Texas) Ritz Theater (Newburgh, New York) Ritz Theatre (Jacksonville) Riverside Theater (Milwaukee) RKO Proctor's Theater, New Rochelle; Rose Blumkin Performing Arts Center; Route 35 ...
The Fox Theater in Atlanta has an old-fashioned neon sign. Kay Theater in Rockdale, Texas. A movie theater is usually called cinema in Anglophone countries outside North America. Other terms for the venue include movie house, film house, film theater, or picture house. In the US, theater has long been the preferred spelling, while in the UK ...