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"Auditorium…, Apollo Theatre, West 42nd Street, New York City" Architecture and Building Vol. 52 No. 12 (December 1920) Plate 146 top. Online at Google Books. Online at Google Books. Author
The Apollo Theater (formerly the Hurtig & Seamon's New Theatre; also Apollo Theatre or 125th Street Apollo Theatre) is a multi-use theater at 253 West 125th Street in the Harlem neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City. It is a popular venue for black American performers and is the home of the TV show Showtime at the Apollo.
The Apollo Theatre was a Broadway theatre whose entrance was located at 223 West 42nd Street in Manhattan, New York City, while the theatre proper was on 43rd Street. It was demolished in 1996 and provided part of the site for the new Ford Center for the Performing Arts, now known as the Lyric Theatre .
The Apollo Theatre is a Grade II listed West End theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster, in central London. [2] Designed by the architect Lewin Sharp for owner Henry Lowenfeld, [3] [4] it became the fourth legitimate theatre to be constructed on the street when it opened its doors on 21 February 1901, [4] with the American musical comedy The Belle of Bohemia.
It became an x-rated movie theater in 1971 but became a regular theater three years later, culminating in a major fire in 1975. The building cycled through owners until a long-term closure beginning in the 1980s. [4] The theater reopened as the Apollo Theatre AC banquet hall in 2001, with Belvidere-based insurance agent Maria Martinez leading ...
The theater operated from 1905 to 1939 and was called the world's largest theater by its builders, with a seating capacity of 5,300 [6] and a stage measuring 100 by 200 feet (30 m × 61 m). [7] It had state-of-the-art theatrical technology, including a tank built into the stage apron that could be filled with water for aquatic performances. [8]
The Apollo Theater Chicago was built in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood in 1978, by theatre producers Jason Brett and Stuart Oken. [1] Located at 2540 N. Lincoln Ave. , the Apollo has 430 seats and a lobby featuring art exhibits and a full bar.
The Apollo Theater's iconic marquee at night. The Apollo Theatre is a 1913 art-deco moviehouse located in Oberlin, Ohio and maintained by Oberlin College. It is notable as one of the earliest theaters to screen "talkies" and for its use as one of Northeast Ohio's film forums. [1]