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In 2005 and 2006, more venues and bars opened in the H Street corridor. Business owners in that area are calling the area the Atlas District, [16] after the movie theater (now a dance and performance studio) that has been its most prominent landmark for half a century.
Eastern Market is part of ward 6 of DC's 8 wards. Nestled in what is known as the Capitol Hill neighborhood, this is the area bounded by North and South Capitol Streets on the west, 15th street on the east and H street on the north and by the Southeast southwest Freeway. Working adults, singles and families with young children largely populate ...
In 2007, Landmark Theatres acquired the Ritz Theatre Group [17] in Philadelphia which consisted of the Ritz East, Ritz at the Bourse and Ritz V. Landmark opened their flagship theatre in Los Angeles, [18] The Landmark. [19] Later that year, Landmark also opened Harbor East [20] in Baltimore and The Landmark Theatre, Greenwood Village in Denver.
Source Theatre U Street: 2008 150 Sitar Arts Center Adams Morgan: 2001 0 Studio 1469 Columbia Heights: Studio Theatre: Mead Theater 4th Street: 1978 218 Studio Theatre Metheny Theater 4th Street: 1978 200 Studio Theatre Milton Theater 4th Street: 1978 187 Studio Theatre Stage 4 4th Street: 1978 120 Warner Theatre: Penn Quarter
Street and number addressing, centered on the Capitol, radiates out into each of the quadrants, producing a number of intersections of identically named cross-streets in each quadrant. [ clarification needed ] Originally, the District of Columbia was a near-perfect square but contained more than one settlement; the Capitol was to be the center ...
Ford's Theatre is a theater located in Washington, D.C., which opened in 1863.The theater is best known for being the site of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.On the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth entered the theater box where Lincoln was watching a performance of Tom Taylor's play Our American Cousin, slipped the single-shot, 5.87-inch derringer from his pocket and fired at ...
The area is served by the X2 and X9 Metrobuses. The city's only remaining streetcar system runs along H Street from Union Station to Benning Road, passing through the Atlas District. The Atlas Theater, the district's namesake, was originally built in 1938. It was converted into the Atlas Performing Arts Center in 2001.
Lincoln Theatre has also been a venue for Filmfest DC. [27] The theater was the primary venue for the annual LGBT film festival Reel Affirmations from 1998 to 2008. From 2008 to 2010, Arena Stage mounted several productions at the theater, including Carrie Fisher 's Wishful Drinking , while its Southwest Waterfront complex was being renovated.