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The Somerville Theater is part of the Hobbs Building which was built in 1914 by Joseph Hobbs and designed by the firm of Funk & Wilcox of Boston.Designed for stage shows, vaudeville, opera, and motion pictures, the theater was only one of the highlights of the Hobbs Building, which also contained a basement café, basement bowling alley and billiards hall, the theater lobbies and ten ...
The following is a partial list of former theatres in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It includes multi-purpose public spaces that functioned at least in part as venues for theatrical performances, including vaudeville. Most venues also served at one time or another as concert halls, lecture halls, meeting spaces, etc.
Former cinemas and movie theaters in Boston (18 P) Pages in category "Cinemas and movie theaters in Massachusetts" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
The Plymouth Theatre (1911–1957) of Boston, Massachusetts, was located on Stuart Street in today's Boston Theater District. [ nb 1 ] Architect Clarence Blackall designed the building for Liebler & Co. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Performers included Henry Jewett , [ 4 ] Bill "Bojangles" Robinson , 8-year-old Sammy Davis Jr. , [ 5 ] and Bette Davis . [ 6 ]
Its entrance hall is the city's only surviving work of noted theater designer Thomas W. Lamb. Also in the district are the 1932 Paramount Theatre and the Modern Theatre . These theaters and their predecessors have displayed the gamut of theatrical entertainment across more than two centuries, including vaudeville, comedy, and film.
Plymouth Theatre (see also Original Seating). The Plymouth Theatre, originally leased by Alfred Gottesman Theatrical Enterprises, Inc., [8] is situated at the corner of Main St. and Central St. and was first opened on November 24, 1928—"Doors open at 7:00 p.m.", [1] "Curtain at 8 o'clock" [1] —according to the bill in the Evening Gazette's News Notes of Worcester Stage and Screen.
Plymouth Rock Studios was a proposed film and television production studio in Massachusetts. [1] The studio had held a now-expired option to buy Waverly Oaks Golf Club in Plymouth as the site [ 2 ] for the $650 million, 1,260,000-square-foot (117,000 m 2 ) development originally slated to be complete in 2010.
The RKO Boston Theatre was a movie theatre in Boston, Massachusetts, located at 616 Washington Street, near Essex Street in the Boston Theater District. [1] [2] It opened as the Keith-Albee Boston Theatre on October 5, 1925. [2] [3]