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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 SIFF Egyptian Theater reopened on October 3, 2014. [7]
Doyle changed the name of the theater to The Grand Illusion as an homage to "the medium of movies itself" and in honor of the 1937 Jean Renoir film, La Grande Illusion. [2] A non-profit film arts organization, the Northwest Film Forum, saved the theater from closure in 1997, [3] [4] remodeled it, and revitalized interest in the institution.
Interior of the Moore Theatre on the occasion of its 100th anniversary celebration in 2007 Moore Theatre program cover after 1907. Moore Theatre is an 1,800-seat performing arts venue in Seattle, Washington, United States, located two blocks away from Pike Place Market at the corner of 2nd Avenue and Virginia Street. It opened in 1907 and is ...
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An image of Taproot Theatre Company. Taproot Theatre Company is a professional, nonprofit theatre company in Seattle, Washington, with a multi-faceted production program. [1] [2] Founded in 1976 by six friends, five of them graduates from Seattle Pacific University, [3] Taproot Theatre has mainstage productions at its location in the Greenwood neighborhood, touring productions throughout the ...
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 ...
Founded in 1939, [4] the Showbox has hosted a diverse offering of music over the decades. From the Jazz Age to the Grunge Era, the ballroom has featured shows by Duke Ellington, Muddy Waters, and the Ramones — as well as local artists such as burlesque performer Gypsy Rose Lee, and grunge bands Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, TAD and Screaming Trees.
The balcony of the Bagley Wright Theatre during Bumbershoot 2008.. The Bagley Wright Theater, named in honor of the president of Seattle Rep's first board of trustees, opened on October 13, 1983 with the world premiere of Michael Weller's The Ballad of Soapy Smith, directed by Robert Egan, and featuring a cast of Seattle actors including Dennis Arndt (in the title role), John Aylward, Frank ...