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Theatre du Lycée Français de San Francisco (TLF) Lycee Francais de San Francisco, 1201 Ortega Street Sunset District 325 [33] Venetian Room: Fairmont San Francisco: Nob Hill venue for cabaret performances, [34] and where Tony Bennett first sang, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" [35] Victoria Theatre: 2961-16th Street Mission District
The Alcazar Theatre is a 511-seat theatre located at 650 Geary Street, San Francisco, California. The venue is host to many touring productions of Broadway and Off Broadway plays , as well as variety , cabaret , comedians , and other theatrical events.
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 ...
The Orpheum Theatre, originally the Pantages Theatre, is located at 1192 Market Street at Hyde, Grove and 8th Streets in the Civic Center district of San Francisco, California. The theatre first opened in 1926 as one of the many designed by architect B. Marcus Priteca for theater-circuit owner Alexander Pantages.
The 2,300-seat Golden Gate Theatre was built in 1920-21 [3] [2] and was designed by G. Albert Lansburgh for the Radio-Keith-Orpheum (RKO) theater circuit; Lansburgh also designed the nearby Warfield Theatre at about the same time. [4]
Later, it was a showcase for Theatre Guild presentations. Subsequently, it became closely associated with the San Francisco Civic Light Opera (CLO), which also operated the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera. The CLO obtained numerous prestigious bookings and produced their own shows, often with stars as the lead roles.
BroadwaySF owns and operates two historic theatres in San Francisco: the Orpheum and Golden Gate Theatres and previously operated the Curran Theatre until 2014. BroadwaySF also consults on the Broadway series at the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas .
During the 1880s San Francisco hosted a change in theater business strategies from stock companies to the use of combination companies, in part, a response to poorer economic times with the demise of silver mining. [23] The new California theatre was the first on the West Coast to be lighted exclusively with electricity. [21]