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Landmark continued to operate the Egyptian Theater until June 27, 2013, after the company declined to renew its lease with Seattle Central College. [5] SIFF took over the lease in May 2014 and raised $340,000 from crowdsourced donations to repair and reopen the theater. [ 6 ]
The turnaround began in 1997 when developers revealed plans to turn the Cinerama into a dinner theater or a rock-climbing club. This sparked a grassroots effort to save the historic venue, with local film buffs circulating petitions and issuing an urgent cry for help, which was answered by multi-billionaire Paul Allen, himself a movie fan and patron of the theater during its 1960s heyday.
November 28, 2006, SIFF and Seattle mayor Greg Nickels announced that SIFF would soon have a home and a year-round screening facility in what has been the Nesholm Family Lecture Hall of McCaw Hall, the same building at Seattle Center that houses the Seattle Opera. The city contributed $150,000 to the $350,000 project.
Feb. 19—The Garland Theater's new website is live. The Garland's website launch comes a few weeks after the theater, which sold to new owners late last year and has been closed, announced it ...
Landmark lost its lease in 2010 to the Seattle Theatre Group, a non-profit organization that also operates the Moore Theatre and Paramount Theatre. [15] The Neptune was closed for a $700,000 renovation in January 2011 and re-opened on September 25, 2011, becoming a performing arts and music venue in addition to a movie theater. [16] [17] [18]
Oasis in August announced its first tour since the band split 15 years ago. Brothers and bandmates Liam and Noel Gallagher have not performed together since getting into a fight backstage at a ...
Seattle resident B. Marcus Priteca, an established architect of movie palaces in the 1920s, designed the building's adjacent apartments and office suites. Interior and balcony of Paramount Theatre. The Paramount Theatre is the first venue in the United States to have a convertible floor system, which converts the theater to a ballroom ...
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, [1] and is also an official Seattle city landmark. [4] Designed by B. Marcus Priteca , it was Seattle's first theater built specifically for showing movies, and was one of the first cinemas anywhere to strive for architectural grandeur. [ 5 ]