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Since 1977, the Orpheum has been the Mid-South home of touring Broadway productions. The Orpheum's two venues also host performances by Ballet Memphis, various concerts, comedians, a summer movie series, a family series of educational programs, and local cultural and community events such as Memphis in May, International Blues Challenge, and special Elvis Week events.
The theater first opened as a movie theater and closed in 1941. Paramount Pictures reopened the auditorium as a movie theater in 1943 through an agreement with Malco Theaters Inc, and at that time, Malco erected a large freestanding sign at the curb along North B Street.
The W. C. Handy Theatre was located at 2355 Park Avenue in the Orange Mound neighborhood of southeast Memphis. [3] The 1,275-capacity theater cost $200,000 to build. [4] In the lobby, there was a milk bar for theater patrons and transient passers-by. [5] There was a stage for top African-American entertainers to perform at the venue. [6]
The Orpheum's summer movie series was launched in 1984 by the theater's longtime head, Pat Halloran (who died in February, at 80), and original series curator, Vincent Astor (who died last year ...
So, with the aura of movie magic lingering in the air like last week's freezing fog (and with Memphis recently named No. 21 in MovieMaker magazine's annual list of the top 30 "Best Places to Live ...
The 27th annual Indie Memphis Film Festival is set to run Nov. 14-17 at Crosstown Theater and the Studio on the Square, with encore screenings Nov. 18-19.. A trivia contest, parties, film ...
Memphis, TN Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Kentucky, Missouri, Louisiana ... Hollywood Theaters (2013; "Wallace Theaters") ... In 2014 there were 5,813 movie ...
Memphis actress Kat Conner Sterling, 27, has a key supporting role in "Popular Theory," a PG-rated comedy now at the Malco Cordova Cinema (an appropriate venue, for a movie featuring the former ...