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Apr 25, 2014 · - Shepardson, a Cleveland Board of Education employee, walks into the darkened State Theatre on Feb. 5, 1970, seeking a place for a teachers meeting and discovers its James Daugherty "Spirit of ...
October 5, 1978. Playhouse Square is a theater district in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States. [ 2 ] It is the largest performing arts center in the US outside of New York City (only Lincoln Center is larger). [ 3 ] Constructed in a span of 19 months in the early 1920s, the theaters became a major entertainment hub for the city for much of ...
Playhouse Square’s original five venues (Mimi Ohio, Connor Palace, KeyBank State, Allen and Hanna) were constructed in the 1920s in a mere 19 months. Impacted by the rise of television and population flight to suburbia, by 1968-69 all but the Hanna were eventually boarded up, as entertainment also moved to the suburbs.
The Play House Children’s Theatre, later to be known as Curtain Pullers, is founded under the direction of Esther Mullin. Believed to be the first of its kind in America, the program provides free theatre education to Cleveland youngsters. 1941. Nine-year-old Joel David Katz appears in Paul Osborn’s On Borrowed Time.
May 2, 2014 · Courtesy of Cleveland Memory Project. One hundred years ago, in 1921, after a world war and the Spanish Flu pandemic, the five lavish theaters that anchor Playhouse Square began to open. Fifty-one years ago in 1970,in an increasingly deserteddowntown, obscure school board functionaryRay Shepardsonbegan trying to save the decaying, rat-ridden ...
Feb. 5, 1921. The State Theatre opens with a silent film A Polly with a Past, with music by the Hyman Spitolny Orchestra. Feb. 14, 1921. The Ohio Theatre opens with a David Belasco production of The Return of Peter Grimm. March 29, 1921. The Hanna Theatre opens with The Prince and the Pauper. April 1, 1921.
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Jan 1, 2016 · 100 Years On, Cleveland Play House Stays True To Its Regional Mission It's been called the oldest professional regional theater in the United States. The Cleveland Play House was founded in 1915 ...
