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Coordinates: 42°21′4.9″N 71°3′46.27″W. The Globe Theatre building, Boston, in 2010. The Globe Theatre (est. 1903) was a playhouse and cinema in Boston, Massachusetts, located on Washington Street in Chinatown. Architect Arthur H. Vinal designed the building in 1903; [1] it stands today at no.692 Washington St. opposite LaGrange Street ...
The Globe Theatre (est.1871) was a playhouse in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century. It was located at 598 Washington Street, [1] near the corner of Essex Street. [2] Arthur Cheney oversaw the Globe until 1876. [3][4] From 1871 to 1873 it occupied the former theatre of John H. Selwyn. [4] After a fire in May 1873, the Globe re-opened on ...
The Wang Theatre is a theatre in Boston. It originally opened in 1925 as the Metropolitan Theatre and was later renamed the Music Hall. It was designed by Clarence Blackall and is located at 252–272 Tremont Street in the Boston Theatre District. The theatre is operated as part of the Boch Center. [2] The theatre was designated as a Boston ...
The Boch Center (formerly Citi Performing Arts Center and Wang Center for the Performing Arts) is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit performing arts organization located in Boston, Massachusetts. It manages the historic Wang and Shubert theatres on Tremont Street in the Boston Theater District, where it offers theatre, opera, classical and popular music ...
The Shubert Theatre is a theatre in Boston, Massachusetts, at 263-265 Tremont Street in the Boston Theater District. [2] It opened on January 24, 1910, with a production of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew starring E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe. Architect Thomas M. James (Hill, James, & Whitaker) designed the building, [3] which seats ...
History. Plays were banned in Boston by the Puritans until 1792. [5] [6] Boston's first theater opened in 1793. [7] [8] In 1900, the Boston Theater District had 31 theaters, with 50,000 seats. [6] In the 1940s, the city had over 50 theaters. [2] Since the 1970s, developers have renovated old theaters.
Cutler Majestic Theatre. The Cutler Majestic Theatre at Emerson College, in Boston, Massachusetts, is a 1903 Beaux Arts style theater, designed by the architect John Galen Howard. [ 2] Originally built for theatre, it was one of three theaters commissioned in Boston by Eben Dyer Jordan, son of the founder of Jordan Marsh, a Boston-based chain ...
Coordinates: 42.3447°N 71.0714°W. The Boston Center for the Arts ( BCA) is a 501 (c) nonprofit visual and performing arts complex in the South End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The BCA houses several performance and rehearsal spaces, restaurants, a gallery, the headquarters of the Boston Ballet, the Community Music Center of Boston ...