The Footlight Club is the oldest continuously running
community theater
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group in the
United States of America
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, having performed every year since 1877. It is a non-profit organization, incorporated as such in 1927.
Based in the
Jamaica Plain
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neighborhood of
Boston
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, the club currently owns and resides in historic
Eliot Hall, which its members purchased in 1889 to provide a home for performances and save the building from demolition.
The Footlight's fundraising projects featured as a part of Boston's social life; there was a dining room in Eliot Hall where benefit dinners were held after theater productions.
References
External links
Official website
Community theatre
Theatre companies in Boston
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