The Allen Theater turns 100 today, April 1, 2021 (No April Fools joke) . We have seen four of the five original theaters in Cleveland’s Playhouse Square celebrate 100 years in the past couple months! Beginnings The Allen originally opened as a movie theater and was part of the Canadian chain owned by brothers Jules […]
The Hanna Theater celebrates it 100 Year Anniversary today, March 28, 2021. It is the third Playhouse Square theater to turn 100 in the past two months. 1921 Beginnings The theater was built to honor Marcus A. Hanna, Clevelander, U.S. Senator and theater lover. Hanna had owned the Euclid Ave. Opera House which was demolished […]
February 14, 1921 the Ohio Theater opened in Cleveland. Today we celebrate its 100 year anniversary! The Mimi Ohio Theater is part of Playhouse Square. The theater was part of the Loews’ theater chain when it opened and it showed movies as well as live performances. In 1929, the theater showed Bela Lugosi in “Dracula”. […]
The State Theater opened on February 5, 1921 – 100 years ago today! It is the first of the Playhouse Square theaters to celebrate their 100 year anniversary. Set for demolition in 1972, we are so lucky to still have this amazing theater here in Cleveland. Originally part of the Loew’s theater chain, it was […]
Cleveland Businesses Blog Series We continue our series of blog and social media posts that look at local small businesses and people that have been affected by the COVID-19 shutdown in Cleveland with an interview with actor Brian Golub from Jesus Christ Superstar. Brian Golub Brian is an actor that was in Cleveland as part […]
The 50th Anniversary of Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice’s groundbreaking rock opera, Jesus Christ Superstar opens its national tour here in Cleveland Tuesday, March 10 at the Connor Palace theater. Cleveland not only kicks the tour off but will have an exclusive musical enhancement. In addition to the 11-piece ensemble of touring musicians, only […]
So for those of you who follow me, you know I do venture out of Cleveland occasionally. This weekend my husband and I took a trip to Fort Wayne, Indiana. It was just over a three hour drive, west of Cleveland. We had great time and visited some really cool museums and found several Cleveland […]
Are you familiar with the Hermit Club? It is a bit of a secret here in Cleveland but chances are you passed by it. The Hermit Club “is the nation’s oldest continuously operating private club devoted to amateur performing arts”. It sits just behind Playhouse Square and is attached to the Hofbrauhaus. The Hermit Club […]
The Allen theater is one of the 11 theaters that make up Playhouse Square and one of the five original theaters. The theater opened in 1921 as a movie palace. It showed it’s last picture, Bonnie & Clyde, in 1968. 1970’s at the Allen Theater In 1971, it hosted the Budapest Symphony Orchestra. At the […]
Another organization that I would like to thank as part of our Thanksgiving series for those businesses that support and work with Tours of Cleveland, LLC is Playhouse Square (PHS). This is another stop on all of our walking tours, the Downtown Highlights, Cleveland From the Inside and of course our Christmas tours which start […]
