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The Mimi Ohio Theatre is a theater on Euclid Avenue in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, part of Playhouse Square. The theater was built by Marcus Loew's Loew's Ohio Theatres company. It was designed by Thomas W. Lamb in the Italian Renaissance style, and was intended to present legitimate plays. The theater opened on February 14, 1921, with 1,338 seats.
The Allen Theatre is one of the theaters in Playhouse Square, the performing arts center on Euclid Avenue in downtown Cleveland, Ohio.It was originally designed as a silent movie theater by C. Howard Crane and opened its doors on April 1, 1921, with a capacity of more than 3,000 seats. [1]
Playhouse Square is a theater district in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States. [2] It is the largest performing arts center in the US outside of New York City (only Lincoln Center is larger). [3] Constructed in a span of 19 months in the early 1920s, the theaters became a major entertainment hub for the city for much of the 20th century.
The KeyBank State Theatre is a theater located at 1519 Euclid Avenue in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. [1] It is one of the theaters that make up Playhouse Square.It was designed by the noted theater architect Thomas W. Lamb and was built in 1921 by Marcus Loew to be the flagship of the Ohio branch of the Loew's Theatres company.
The Agora Theatre and Ballroom (commonly known as the Cleveland Agora, or simply, the Agora) is a music venue located in Cleveland, Ohio.. Gary LoConti opened the first Agora on February 27, 1965, near the campus of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
By 1933, the theater went bankrupt and Warner Bros took over operations of the theater. In 1951, the Hippodrome Theater became part of the Telenews chain and the property was purchased by Alvin Krenzler in 1972. [1] By the 1970s, movie attendance began to decline. [2] The eleven-story office building had several tenants over its nearly 80-year ...