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Lincoln Theatre has also been a venue for Filmfest DC. [27] The theater was the primary venue for the annual LGBT film festival Reel Affirmations from 1998 to 2008. From 2008 to 2010, Arena Stage mounted several productions at the theater, including Carrie Fisher 's Wishful Drinking , while its Southwest Waterfront complex was being renovated.
This list of theaters and entertainment venues in Washington, D.C. includes present-day opera houses and theaters, cabarets, music halls and other places of live entertainment in Washington, D.C. Current theaters
The Warner Theatre was originally developed by Aaron and Julian Brylawski in 1922. Originally named the Earle Theatre, it was built in 1924 as a movie palace presenting live vaudeville and first-run silent movies. It was designed by theatre architect C. Howard Crane of Detroit and Kenneth Franzheim. The Earle Theatre opened December 27, 1924.
The theatre's initial production was Man of the World. [3] It was purchased in 1844 by Benjamin Ogle Tayloe of the B.O. Tayloe House for $13,950. [4] National Theater Washington DC The Times Picayune Wed Nov 13 1844. The theatre has been in almost continuous operation since, at the same Pennsylvania Avenue location a few blocks from the White ...
Arena was the first theatre in D.C. to be racially integrated. [16] [17] [18] Its production The Great White Hope, which opened at Arena Stage in 1967, was transferred to Broadway with its original cast, including James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander in the lead roles. [1] [19] Arena was the first regional theater to transfer a production to ...
Ford's Theatre is a theater located in Washington, D.C., which opened in 1863.The theater is best known for being the site of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.On the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth entered the theater box where Lincoln was watching a performance of Tom Taylor's play Our American Cousin, slipped the single-shot, 5.87-inch derringer from his pocket and fired at ...
Opened on October 29, 1936, [4] the theater was designed by architect John Jacob Zink, whose firm designed over 200 theaters across the United States, and the 14th built by Warner Brothers in Washington, D.C. [5] The exterior is constructed of yellow and red brick and the facade is partially faced in limestone fluted panels.
The Tivoli Theatre is a landmark building in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C., on 14th Street and Park Road Northwest. Originally built as a movie theater, it currently (as of 2006) exhibits live stage productions as the home of the GALA Hispanic Theatre.