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Capacity. 410, formerly 500+. Opened. 1925. ( 1925) Website. www .greatstartheater .org. The Great Star Theater, formerly known as Great China Theater, is a 410-seat [1] theater located at 636 Jackson Street in San Francisco's Chinatown. It was built in 1925 for the Chinese opera and is the last Chinese theater in any Chinatown in the United ...
1,667. Opened. 1922. Website. sfcurran .com. The Curran Theatre, located at 445 Geary Street between Taylor and Mason Streets in the Theatre District of San Francisco, California opened in February 1922, and was named after its first owner, Homer Curran. As of 2014, the theater is owned by Carole Shorenstein Hays .
Theatre Rhinoceros, Theatre Rhino, or The Rhino is a gay and lesbian theatre in San Francisco. Theatre Rhinoceros claims to be the world's longest-running professional queer theatre company. [2] It was founded in the spring of 1977 by Lanny Baugniet (who became the theater's General Manager) and his late partner Allan B. Estes, Jr. (who became ...
The Castro Theatre is a historic movie palace in the Castro District of San Francisco, California. The venue became San Francisco Historic Landmark #100 in September 1976. [2] Located at 429 Castro Street, it was built in 1922 with a California Churrigueresque façade that pays homage—in its great arched central window surmounted by a ...
McCain was born in York, Pennsylvania and grew up in New York, Illinois and Colorado in addition to California. [1] She graduated from Ripon College with a BA in Philosophy and then studied acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, England. [2] She completed a master's degree in psychology at the California Institute of ...
Lorraine Hansberry Theatre. Coordinates: 37.778307°N 122.429268°W. The Lorraine Hansberry Theater at its current location at 762 Fulton St. The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre is an African-American arts institution located in downtown San Francisco. [1] It is named after Lorraine Hansberry, who wrote A Raisin in the Sun while living in Bay Area. [2]
The Fox Theatre was a 4,651-seat movie palace located at 1350 Market Street in San Francisco, California. The theater was designed by the noted theater architect , Thomas W. Lamb . Opened in 1929, the theater operated until 1963, when it was closed and demolished.
Maritime Hall. Coordinates: 37°47′11″N 122°23′34″W. The Maritime Hall is a historic 3,000-capacity concert hall in San Francisco 's South of Market neighborhood that operated from 1995 through 2001 as a popular music venue and nightclub. It was located at 450 Harrison Street (at First Street) at the Sailors Union of the Pacific building.