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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 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.
The Apollo Theater was a movie theater located at 624 H Street NE in Washington, D.C. which played silent movies. It was built in 1913 [1] and was part of the Crandall network of movie theaters popular at the time. It was demolished in 1955. The lot is today occupied by a residential building named the "Apollo" in its honor.
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 ...
"My administration is closely monitoring the roof collapse at the Apollo Theatre in Belvidere tonight," Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker tweeted. Belvidere is located about 70 miles northwest of Chicago.
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 theater's original facade, shared with the former Apollo Theatre, is made of limestone and is symmetrical. [11] [12] [13] The layout is similar to that of the still-extant Music Box Theatre. [14] The westernmost section served as an entrance to the Apollo Theatre, whose auditorium was originally on 43rd Street.