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An additional exhibit hall named for former Wichita City Commissioner and Mayor Bob Brown was added to the original structure in 1986. The hall contains an additional 93,000 sq ft (8,600 m 2) of exhibit space with an 8,000 sq ft (740 m 2) lobby. [1] In 1997, the 303-room Hyatt Regency Wichita hotel was constructed and connected to the center. [3]
Originally built as a vaudeville venue, the theatre underwent conversion into a movie house in 1929 and for decades it presented both movies and live entertainment. . Throughout the 1920s, the Chicago-based Orpheum circuit brought famous names like: Al Jolson, Fannie Brice, Jack Benny, George Burns, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Gracie Allen, Gypsy Rose Lee, Bing Crosby, Mickey Rooney, and ...
Leaders of the downtown venue announced on Wednesday, the theater’s 102nd birthday, details about how it will restore the Orpheum to its original 1920s glory.
Downtown Wichita is the central business district, government and social core of the Wichita metropolitan area, in the U.S. state of Kansas.It is home to several of the area's major landmarks and event venues including the Epic Center, Century II Performing Arts & Convention Center, Intrust Bank Arena, Equity Bank Park, Keeper of the Plains sculpture, the Old Town entertainment district, and ...
Boulevard Theatres is the Wichita company that in 2022 reopened a theater where Regal Cinemas had been at Towne West Square. The theater is on the west side of the mall with five screens, which ...
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Boulevard Theatres opened its first location May 2022 in Towne West Square. [2] The location is in the former Warren Theatres Movie Machine, a 5 screen multiplex. [3] In preparing this theatre for opening, Boulevard Theatres installed new projectors and sound, refreshed the auditoriums and remodeled the lobby and concessions area, introducing Wichita's first fully self-serve movie theatre ...
The Wichita Symphony Orchestra once made the auditorium its home. Poet Maya Angelou spoke there in the 1990s. And something especially dramatic happened there on Dec. 8, 1941.