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Astor Theatre (other)
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Astor Theatre or Astor Cinema can refer to: Australia * Astor Theatre, Melbourne, Victoria * Astor Theatre, Perth, Western Australia * Astor Theatre, Surat, Queensland * Astor Cinema, Sydney, New South Wales United States * Astor Place Theatre, off-Broadway, New York City * Astor Theatre, New York City, on Broadway, New York City * Dixie Center for the Arts, formerly the Astor in Ruston, Louisiana See also * Astor (other) Astor or ASTOR may refer to: Companies * Astor Pictures, a New York-based motion picture releasing company * Astor Radio Corporation, an Australian consumer electronics manufacturer from 1926 onwards, which also owned the Astor Records label * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astor Theatre, Melbourne
The Astor Theatre is a classic, single-screen Moderne architecture, jazz moderne Revival house, revival movie theatre in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda, Victoria, St Kilda, first opened in 1936 and still in operation today. History The site at 1-3 Chapel Street, St Kilda has been used for entertainment purposes since the Diamond Picture Theatre opened there on 29 July 1912. It was later renamed the Theatre Rex and closed in 1917. Astor founder Frank O'Collins bought the property in 1935, commissioning architect Ron Morton Taylor who designed the building in the moderne architecture, jazz moderne style. Construction work began within a few months, led by the Clements Langford firm. The Astor officially opened on 3 April 1936 with a seating capacity of 1,673 people. Notably it was one of the last theatres in Melbourne to use the traditional two-level auditorium layout, a costly approach that later fell out of favour. The cinema operated throughout World War II and the post-war ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astor Theatre, Perth
The Astor Theatre is located at 659 Beaufort Street, Mount Lawley, Western Australia. It comprises a single, two and three-storey masonry inter-war Art Deco style theatre and retail building. History The building was originally known as the Lyceum Theatre and was designed by David McClure, and built by Simon Alexander, whose family owned the premises. The Alexander family also owned the Alexander Building on the south-west (opposite) corner of Beaufort and Walcott Streets. It was constructed in 1914/1915 in a Federation Free Classical architectural style and was designed for a mixture of vaudeville and lantern slide shows. By 1922, the Lyceum Theatre was advertising "motion pictures and popular orchestra". In the mid-1920s, with the development and popularity of silent movies, the Lyceum was converted to a cinema, and the name was changed from the Lyceum to the State Theatre. In 1939 the theatre was redesigned in an Art Deco style by William Leighton, and reconstructed by Simo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astor Theatre, Surat
Astor Theatre is a heritage-listed cinema at 77 Burrowes Street, Surat, Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1925 to 1960s. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 27 September 2002. History The Astor Picture Theatre was built in 1925 as an open-air picture theatre in Surat, which is situated on the Balonne River south of Roma and was the administrative centre of the Warroo Shire until its amalgamation into the Maranoa Region in 2008. The Surveyor-General of New South Wales, Thomas Mitchell, mapped the area in 1846 and the District of Maranoa was proclaimed in November 1848. The new Commissioner of Lands arrived with several police in 1849 and set up camp on Yambougal station, moving slightly up river a few months later. This was the site selected in 1849 by surveyor James Burrowes for a service township on the Balonne River. He called the township Surat, after his former home in Madras, India. The main street, on which the theatre is sit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astor Cinema, Sydney
Glebe Point Road is the main road of the inner city suburb of Glebe in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is a boutique shopping strip with numerous restaurants and cafés. History Glebe Point Road is one of the most historic streets in Sydney, dating from the early days of settlement, when the area was granted to the Anglican Church. St John's Church was built on the corner of Glebe Point Road and St Johns Road, after a design by Edmund Blacket. Built from 1868–1870, the church is listed on the (now defunct) Register of the National Estate. Blacket also built his own family home, the heritage-listed '' Bidura'', on Glebe Point Road in 1858. There was once a post office at no. 181a. There was an active tramway on Glebe Point Road between 1892 and 1958, when the trams were replaced by buses. Roadworks near the Bridge Road crossing in late 2009 uncovered a section of the original tram tracks, which were left exposed by the City of Sydney to serve as a historical re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astor Place Theatre
The Astor Place Theatre is an off-Broadway house at 434 Lafayette Street in the NoHo section of Manhattan, New York City. The theater is located in the historic Colonnade Row, originally constructed in 1831 as a series of nine connected buildings, of which only four remain. Bruce Mailman bought the building in 1965. On January 17, 1968, the theater opened with Israel Horovitz's ''The Indian Wants the Bronx'' starring newcomer Al Pacino. Since then, it has gained a reputation for introducing works by aspiring and often experimental playwrights, including Tom Eyen ('' Women Behind Bars'', '' The Dirtiest Show in Town'') and John Ford Noonan ('' A Couple White Chicks Sitting Around Talking''). Established writers like Terrence McNally ('' Bad Habits''), A.R. Gurney (''The Dining Room'', '' The Perfect Party'') and Larry Shue ('' The Foreigner'') also have premiered plays here. The musical revue, '' Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris'' enjoyed a successful run i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astor Theatre, New York City
The Astor Theatre was located at 1537 Broadway, at the corner with 45th Street, on Times Square in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It opened on September 21, 1906, with Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' and continued to operate as a Broadway theatre until 1925. It then operated as a movie theater, showing first runs of films, until it closed in 1972. History The Astor was first managed by Lincoln A. Wagenhals and Collin Kemper, then by George M. Cohan and Sam Harris, and later by the Shubert Organization. The theater was designed by architect George W. Keister. Among the plays that debuted at the Astor were Cohan's '' Seven Keys to Baldpate'' (1913) and '' Why Marry?'' (1917) by Jesse Lynch Williams, the first winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. In 1925, Loew's Theatres bought the Astor and converted it into a movie house in order to have a Times Square " road show" showcase for first-run films from the MGM film studio. '' The Big Parade'' (1925) was the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dixie Center For The Arts
The Dixie Center for the Arts, also known as the Dixie Theater or simply the Dixie, is a theater-style venue located at 212 North Vienna Street in Ruston, Louisiana. The venue originally opened as the Astor Theater in 1928. The Astor offered showings of silent films and live concerts with tickets ranging from 10 to 50 cents. In 1932 the Astor Theater underwent lite renovations with the most notable being the addition of a crystal chandelier and a change in identity from the Astor to the Rialto. In the early 1950s, the theater underwent one last name change. After being purchased from the famous Dixie Theater Corporation of New Orleans, the space was officially known as the Dixie Theater. The corporation renovated the space and re-opened in 1956. The most notable renovation to the space was the addition of air conditioning and the iconic flashing neon star which rises above the marquee. After years of neglect and disrepair, the space underwent an extensive renovation to preserve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
