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The Benedum Center for the Performing Arts (formerly the Stanley Theatre) is a theater and concert hall located at 237 7th Street in the Cultural District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Designed by the Philadelphia architectural firm Hoffman-Henon , it was built in 1928 as the Stanley Theatre.
Location of Pittsburgh in Allegheny County. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on National Register of Historic Places in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be ...
East Pittsburgh U.S. Post Office 1916 James A. Wetmore: 701 Linden Avenue East Pittsburgh 2014 Ebenezer Baptist Church 1931 2001 Wylie Avenue Hill, the 1979 Demolished Edgar Thomson Works, United States Steel: 1875 (since) North Braddock 1989 Edgewood: 1888 (incorporated) The town as a whole. Edgewood 1998 Edgeworth Club 1930–31
In 1897 Harris Comedy and Specialty Co. showed Pittsburgh's first motion picture. On June 19, 1905, Harris and his brother-in-law, Harry Davis opened a small film theater on a Smithfield Street storefront in Downtown Pittsburgh. The theater, known as the Nickelodeon, was the first devoted exclusively for the exhibition of movies. [3]
In the early 1910s, concern over the lack of serious or "legitimate" theater in Pittsburgh led to an "art theater movement" that involved the establishment of the Pitt Theatre Company of Pittsburgh in 1913, the Drama League of Pittsburgh in 1912, and 1914, the establishment of the nation's first bachelor of arts degree in theater at Carnegie ...
Sergio Gor, the director of the White House's Presidential Personnel Office, announced the dismissal of the archivist, at Trump's direction, on X. "We thank Colleen Shogan for her service," Gor said.
They now pay a total of $10,000 a year for the policies needed to insure their home. The costs are crippling on their limited income – he lives on Social Security benefits, and she is his caretaker.
The Byham Theater, a landmark building at 101 Sixth Street in Downtown Pittsburgh, was the second major theater venue restoration project of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. Built in 1903, the then called Gayety Theater was a stage and Vaudeville house, and it featured stars such as Ethel Barrymore , Gertrude Lawrence , and Helen Hayes .