Theatre Historical Society of America

Robert Foreman, one of our members, has asked us to share his website dedicated to the Electrics at Radio City Music Hall. Robert diligently conducted thorough research for this project, drawing ...

https://historictheatres.org/6416/

Dear Friends of Theatre Historical Society, We are pleased to announce that the Theatre Historical Society of America has begun a reorganizing and rebuilding effort, and we would like very much t...

https://historictheatres.org/exciting-news-from-theatre-historical-society/

The Fort Wayne (IN) Embassy Theatre’s ninetieth anniversary year, 2018, has been a busy one with a special show in May recreating the spectacle of the 1928 opening, release of three new CDs on ...

https://historictheatres.org/embassy-theatre-continues-to-update-archives/

Pittsburgh: The Home of Rocky Horror By the Junior Chamber of Commerce Players For more than 40 years, the Junior Chamber of Commerce Players (JCCP) have built a safe place of unity, expression, ...

https://historictheatres.org/the-jccp-pittsburghs-premiere-rocky-horror-picture-show-shadowcast/

Imagine an intimate theatre experience with 7 of your closest friends…literally. And imagine that cinema coming to you! If you’re in the UK, you’re in luck! The Sol Cinema is a unique mobil...

https://historictheatres.org/the-tiniest-cinema-in-the-solar-powered-system/

By Jonathan Boschen One iconic building tucked away in the city of Detroit MI is a performing arts center and art gallery called the Jam Handy, located at 2900 East Grand Boulevard.  This Gothic...

https://historictheatres.org/the-jam-handy-a-filmmaking-icon-and-american-relic/

In the late 1880s, inspired by European designs, architects and building planners decided to make use of a structure’s roof as an additional place to provide leisure or entertainment to patrons...

https://historictheatres.org/rooftop-garden-theaters/

Ray Shepardson (January 13, 1944 – April 14, 2014) was a theatre restoration specialist and theatre operator credited by many with beginning the trend toward restoring old unused movie theat...

https://historictheatres.org/raymond-k-shepardson-the-father-of-clevelands-playhouse-square-foundation/

In the last “Smokin’” issue of Marquee (Volume 50 Number1), we shared a 1932 Photo of the Ladies Smoking Lounge. Since the issue dropped, the Oakland Paramount’s resident artist David Boy...

https://historictheatres.org/restoring-the-glory-of-the-oakland-paramount-theatre-the-ladies-smoking-lounge/

This exciting text appeared in the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel for 14 May 1928 in a large advertisement featuring a fanciful drawing of the theater’s interior and an enticing glimpse of the progra...

https://historictheatres.org/archiving-the-historic-embassy-theatre-ft-wayne-indiana/