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In 1837, the first resident theater company, the short-lived Chicago Theater, opened in the Sauganash Hotel. One of the players was then a boy named Joseph Jefferson, who grew to become a very successful comedic actor. Chicago's main theater prize, the Joseph Jefferson award, is named after this pioneer.
The Woods Theatre was a movie palace at the corner of Randolph and Dearborn Streets in the Chicago Loop. It opened in 1918 and was a popular entertainment destination for decades. Originally a venue for live theater, it was later converted to show movies. It closed in 1989 and was demolished in 1990.
The Copernicus Center (formerly Gateway Theatre) is a 1,852-seat former movie palace that is now part of the Copernicus Center in the Jefferson Park community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The Copernicus Center is located at 5216 W. Lawrence Avenue.
Apollo Theater Chicago [54] Arie Crown Theatre [55] Auditorium Theatre [56] Briar Street Theater [57] Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place (formerly Drury Lane Water Tower Place) [58] Bughouse Theater; Cadillac Palace Theatre [59] Chicago Theatre [60] CIBC Theatre (formerly The Shubert Theatre) [61] Congress Theater [62] Greenhouse Theater ...
The Oriental Theater opened in 1926 as one of many ornate movie palaces built in Chicago during the 1920s by the firm Rapp and Rapp. In addition to movies, it occasionally showed live acts. The Oriental continued to be a vital part of Chicago's theater district into the 1960s, but patronage declined in the 1970s.
The theatre then went through another extensive remodel and construction under architect Andrew Rebori before re-opening as the Four Cohans Theatre in 1926; now under co-ownershp by Cohan and the Shubert family. In 1928 the Shubert family became the sole owners of the theatre, and it was once again named the Grand Opera House.
The Chicago Theatre, originally known as the Balaban and Katz Chicago Theatre, is a landmark theater located on North State Street in the Loop area of Chicago, Illinois. Built in 1921, the Chicago Theatre was the flagship for the Balaban and Katz (B&K) group of theaters run by A. J. Balaban , his brother Barney Balaban and partner Sam Katz. [ 5 ]
The theater was restored and renovated, and reopened after a five-year hiatus in the spring of 2006 as a single-screen, 1300-plus seat theater showing both silent and sound classic motion pictures as well as hosting other live events. Today the historic Portage Theater is the home of the Silent Film Society of Chicago and hosts the Chicago ...