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Its Bijou Theatre in Nashville was one of the premiere venues for African American audiences in the Southern United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Milton Starr, who was part of the prominent Jewish family that owned and ran the theater, was the first president of the Theater Owners Booking Association (TOBA), headquartered in Chattanooga . [ 3 ]
It was the first multiplex theatre opened, and was closed in 2010. [5] It was completely renovated and reopened as the Rave Cinemas Baldwin Hills 15 by the Rave Cinemas chain in 2011. [6] It is now owned by Cinemark Theatres and is renamed the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza 15 and XD. [7]
Nashville Repertory Theatre was founded as Tennessee Repertory Theatre in 1985 by Mac Pirkle and Martha Rivers Ingram. [1] The first production was Macbeth . [ 2 ] The theatre's original home base for production was the 1100-seat James K. Polk Theater in the Tennessee Performing Arts Center .
Hillsboro Theater (Nashville, Tennessee 1925–26) The Grand (Huntsville, Alabama 1925–1928) Linden Circle (Memphis, Tennessee 1929–1961) The Ozark (Fayetteville, Arkansas 1930–1980) The Memphian (Memphis, Tennessee 1935–1985) The Palace (Fayetteville, Arkansas 1935–1969) The Capitol (Newport, Arkansas 1935–1964)
The idea for a large-scale performing arts facility developed in 1972, when Martha Rivers Ingram was appointed to the advisory board of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., and proposed a similar center for her home city of Nashville. Ingram's proposal involved a public-private partnership that would operate within a ...
To provide films for his theaters, Loew founded Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in 1924, by merging the earlier firms Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Louis B. Mayer Productions. Loew's Incorporated served as the distribution arm and parent company for the studio until the two were separated by the 1948 U.S. Supreme Court ruling United States v.
Nashville Children's Theatre (NCT) is one of the oldest continually operating professional children's theatre company in America. It is a member of the Theatre for Young Audiences , [ 1 ] the ASSITEJ , and is affiliated with the Actors' Equity Association .
Bridgestone Arena (originally Nashville Arena, and formerly Gaylord Entertainment Center and Sommet Center) is a multi-purpose indoor arena in downtown Nashville, ...