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The Earle Theater in 1928. The Earle Theatre was a 2768-seat theatre in Philadelphia, United States at 1046 Market Street, on the southeast corner of South 11th Street.It is associated with being a thriving venue for big band jazz music in the 1930s and 1940s.
Allan Spivak purchased the theatre in September 1987; [8] renovations were then undertaken to convert the venue from a cinema into an off-Broadway type of venue. The newly-improved theatre's first show was a production of the 1986 Outer Critics Circle Awards-winning (and 2014 Tony Award-winning) musical Lady Day, which opened on October 21, 1987.
The Standard Theatre and Dunbar Theatre, later renamed the Lincoln Theater, were important venues for jazz in the early 20th century, when most major performers stopped in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and New York City. Though jazz was an African American creation coming out of Gospel and Blues, Philadelphia's multi-ethnic ...
The Trocadero Theatre (opened as the Arch Street Opera House) is a historic theater located in Chinatown in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It offered musical comedies, vaudeville , opera, and burlesque .
The Penypack Theatre is an historic, American, Art Deco-style movie house that is located on the 8000 block of Frankford Avenue of Holmesburg in the northeast section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. History and architectural features
Founded in 1984 as the American Music Theater Festival by Marjorie Samoff, Eric Salzman and Ron Kaiserman, for the first 15 years AMTF performed in various venues throughout Philadelphia. In March 1999, [ 1 ] AMTF moved into the renovated Midtown Theater and changed its name in honor of Broadway producer and director Harold Prince . [ 2 ]
The Philadelphia Orchestra and Ensemble Arts Philly present a diverse array of educational offerings, including Jazz For Freedom, which explores social change through the history and traditions of Jazz; Musical Theater Program: Set The Stage, introducing middle school aged students to musical theater; a school ensemble program at KIPP West ...
The Boyd was designed by Philadelphia architecture firm Hoffman-Henon and built for Alexander R. Boyd. [1] It opened on Christmas Day 1928. Boasting an opulent Art Deco lobby, extravagant marquee and ticket booth and a 2,450 seat auditorium that featured a screen advertised as 'the largest in Philadelphia', the theater became well known among several others along Chestnut Street.