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Orpheum Theatre (San Francisco) 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.
Center for Sex & Culture, 1349 Mission Street; hosted live theater and other events in South of Market [40] The Dark Room Theatre (2008–2015), 2263 Mission Street [41] El Capitan Theatre and Hotel, 2353 Mission Street; Mission District [42] EXIT Theatre, 156 Eddy Street [43] Grand Opera House (San Francisco)
Multiplex (movie theater) A typical AMC Theatres megaplex with 30 screens at Ontario Mills in Ontario, California. A multiplex is a movie theater complex with multiple screens or auditoriums within a single complex. They are usually housed in a specially designed building. Sometimes, an existing venue undergoes a renovation where the existing ...
22,500. Opened. 1986. Website. www.livenation.com. Aerial photograph of Shoreline Amphitheatre, with the parking lots and the neighboring golf course. Shoreline Amphitheatre is an outdoor amphitheater located in Mountain View, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. The venue has a capacity of 22,500, with 6,500 reserved seats and 16,000 ...
From June 19 to 29, 2014, the Victoria, along with the Roxie Cinema and the Castro Theatre, hosted the 38th Frameline San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival. [7] The theater hosts new documentary films like The Recess Ends , and live theatrical performances by Ray of Light Theatre such as Bat Boy: The Musical (2005), The Rocky Horror ...
July 1963. Architect. Thomas W. Lamb. Website. www.historigraphics.com /fox. The Fox Theatre was a 4,651-seat movie palace located at 1350 Market Street in San Francisco, California. The theater was designed by the noted theater architect, Thomas W. Lamb. Opened in 1929, the theater operated until 1963, when it was closed and demolished.
Albert Roller. Website. Venue Website. The SF Masonic Auditorium (originally the Grand Masonic Auditorium and formerly known as the Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium) is a building and auditorium located atop Nob Hill in San Francisco, California. The building was designed by Bay Area architect Albert Roller (1891-1981), and opened in 1958.
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]