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Capital One Hall has two theaters: the 1,600-seat Main Theater and the 225-seat black box Vault Theater. The venue boasts a four-story Atrium, designed to fit up to 1,600 people standing or 500 people seated, and a terrace designed to fit up to 450 people standing or 180 people seated [3]
The Bilheimer Capitol Theatre (formerly known as the Capitol Theatre and Royalty Theatre) is a historic theater in Clearwater, Florida. [3] [4] It is one of the six venues that compose the Richard B. Baumgardner Center for the Performing Arts. The theater has a seating capacity of 750 people. [5]
The Grateful Dead played 13 dates at the Capitol Theatre in a one-year span from 1970 to 1971. American Songwriter notes that "Many fans think those shows were some of the best the band ever played." [4] Janis Joplin debuted her song "Mercedes Benz" at the theater, to the surprise of her band, after writing it at a bar nearby. [5]
The 2,251-seat Overture Hall is the cultural center's largest theater. Consisting of four levels of seats, it has a striking architectural style and was designed for acoustics (no center aisle). The balconies have "continental-style" seating arrangements, where aisles other than those on the sides of seat rows are omitted in order to provide ...
The Capitol Theatre, designed by architect Charles W. Bates of Wheeling, was built by general contractor R. R. Kitchen at a cost of $1,000,000 and first opened on Thanksgiving day 1928. The theater initially presented movies and stage shows and later concerts by the Wheeling Symphony Society, which moved into the building in 1929.
[4] [8] After one year, Capital One dropped naming rights and the venue briefly became known as the Theatre at Westbury. [9] New York Community Bank purchased naming rights in May 2010, with the theater being known as the NYCB Theatre in Westbury starting July 2010 - March 2024. As of March 2024, the Theatre has resumed a part of its original ...
The Capitol Theatre, as well as the Star Theatre around the corner, were part of a chain owned by Joseph P. Kennedy's Maine-New Hampshire Theatres Co. . In a piece written in 2011, remembering back to the 1950s and '60s, Paul E. Brogan wrote that "the Capitol Theatre still bore signs of the elegance and lushness that had earned it acclaim when it opened, replete with a pipe organ and stage ...
The theatre originally featured vaudeville acts and is currently home to the Yakima Symphony Orchestra, Town Hall Series, Community Concerts, as well as traveling Broadway musicals. In 1972 the Allied Arts Council and the City of Yakima began working together to transfer the building to public ownership.