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Celebration Cinema is a movie theater chain owned and operated by Studio C (formerly known as Loeks Theatres, Inc.) with headquarters in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA.Its theaters serve the cities and surrounding areas of Grand Rapids, Lansing, Muskegon, Benton Harbor/St. Joseph, Portage/Kalamazoo, and Mount Pleasant.
The State Theatre is a Spanish-styled atmospheric theatre in Kalamazoo, Michigan, designed by renowned architect John Eberson. The State was built for W.S. Butterfield Theatres in 1927, and remains in operation today, presenting live shows. The theatre was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. [1]
The theatre was state of the art for the time. In October of that year, their first show of the 1931-1932 season was a staging of W. Somerset Maugham's "The Constant Wife". [4] 1933 – Founding member Norman Carver Sr. was instrumental in forming the Michigan Little Theatre Enclave, later to become the Community Theatre Association of Michigan.
The theatre originated in 1946 when Jack Ragotzy, Betty Ebert and others formed the Village Players troupe. After playing several seasons in a community hall in a former Methodist church (in Richland [ 2 ] ), in 1949 Jack and Betty moved a dairy barn, which was converted into a theatre and was purchased by them in 1954. [ 4 ]
Goodrich Theater NewCo, LLC. (GQT Movies, formerly GQTI ) is a chain of 22 movie theaters , headquartered in Grand Rapids, MI , representing a total of 174 screens in the United States . The majority of GQT Movies' locations are in Michigan , but other locations could be found in Illinois , Indiana , Missouri , Alabama , and Pennsylvania .
The Barton theatre pipe organ, catalogued as Opus 245, was built for the Michigan Theater and installed in November 1927, shortly before the theater was opened on January 5, 1928. [5] Of some 7,000 theatre organs collectively built by many companies between the mid-1910s and the early 1930s, the Michigan Barton is one of only about 45 remaining ...
Celebration Cinema; Century Theatres; Cine Capri; Cinemark Theatres; Cineplex Odeon Corporation; CineVista Theatres; Classic Cinemas; Commonwealth Theaters; Consolidated Theatres (Hawaii) Consolidated Theatres (North Carolina) Cooper Foundation; Cosm (company)
Studio 28 opened on Christmas Day 1965 with a single 1,000-seat theater. Expanding in 1967 by adding a second screen dubbed the "Little Studio", that commonly showed features for children when the big screen was showing a feature for older audiences, or a film with a niche audience. While the main screen showed a more commercial feature.