Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The theater received its present name in 1967. [2] The building was used as an adult movie house until it closed in 1978. Soon afterward, developer Charles Forbes purchased the combined Gem/Century building, and began a complete restoration of the Gem Theatre in 1990. [2] The refurbished Gem opened in 1991.
Meridian Hall is a performing arts venue in Toronto, Ontario, and it is the country's largest soft-seat theatre. [1] The facility was constructed for the City of Toronto municipal government and is currently managed by TO Live, an arms-length agency and registered charity created by the city.
Was located above the Kingsway Theatre and earlier was called the Kingsway 2. Shea's Hippodrome: Queen and Bay 1909 1954 1 Former vaudeville theatre that became one of Canada's largest cinemas. Sheraton Centre Sheraton Centre: 1974 1990s 2 Designed as a first-run theatre by Toronto-based architectural firm Searle, Wilbee, Rowland.
The Meridian Arts Centre is a performing arts venue in the North York district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.It opened on October 16, 1993, as the North York Performing Arts Centre and was designed by Canadian architect Eberhard Zeidler for musicals, theatre productions and other performing arts.
Opened in 1907, the theatre is the oldest continuously operating theatre in North America. Among the industry, the area was home to the Royal Alexandra Theatre whose construction and launch were financed by four Toronto business leaders—Cawthra Mulock, Robert Alexander Smith, Stephen Haas, and Lol Solman. [2]
The Theatre Centre is a performing arts organization and theatre venue in Toronto . It is nationally recognized as a live-arts incubator for the cultural sector in the city. It also provide meeting space for Toronto residents. The Theatre Centre's mission is to nurture artists, invest in ideas and champion new work and new ways of working.
The John E. Thompson block, once the Rialto Theatre, is now a hi-tech access center. The John E. Thompson block is a heritage structure at the corner of Yonge and Shuter streets in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [1] It was built in 1894, and renovated in 1904 and 1920. In 1900 it housed the Yonge Street Mission.
The MTCC has 700,000 square feet (65,000 m 2) of space, and is home to the 1232-seat John Bassett Theatre. To the east end of the complex is the 586-room InterContinental Toronto Centre hotel (formerly Canadian National Railway's L'Hotel CN). [4] At the west end of the complex is a 265,000 square foot Class-B office building. [5]