Keith's Theatre (Boston)

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Keith's Theatre, Tremont Street, Boston, ca.1906 (Library of Congress)

B.F. Keith's Theatre (1894-1928) in Boston, Massachusetts, was a vaudeville playhouse run by B.F. Keith. It sat across from the Boston Common in the city's theatre district, with an entrance on Tremont Street and another on Washington Street.[1] Personnel included Keith, E.F. Albee and H.E. Gustin.[2] Virgilio Tojetti painted some of the interior decorations.[3][4] "In 1939, the theater found a new life as a movie house called the Normandie Theater."[5]

Performances/Screenings

References

  1. ↑ Keith's Theatre, no.547 Washington and no.163 Tremont. Boston Register and Business Directory, 1918, 1921
  2. ↑ Cahn-Leighton Official Theatrical Guide. NY. 1913. 
  3. ↑ "Keith's Tremont Street Entrance". The Opera Glass 4 (10). October 1897. 
  4. ↑ "Virgilio Tojetti (1849-1901)". Public Opinion 30. April 4, 1901. 
  5. ↑ Boston Athenaeum. "Theater History: Keith's Theatre (1894-1952), 547 Washington Street". Retrieved 2012-02-06. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Deac Rossell (Summer 1995). "A Chronology of Cinema, 1889-1896". Film History 7. 

Further reading

  • 's_New_Theatre. B.F. Keith's New Theatre., Boston: printed by Geo. H. Walker & Co., 1894 
  • E.T. Adams. "Artistic Engine-Room Interiors." Engineering Magazine, v.10, no.6, March 1896
  • Frank Cullen. Vaudeville old & new: an encyclopedia of variety performances in America. NY: Routledge, 2004

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Keith's Theatre (Boston).
  • CinemaTreasures.org. B. F. Keith's Theatre, 547 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02458
  • Library of Congress. Drawing of Shubert Apollo Theatre (formerly B.F. Keith's Theatre), Tremont St. opposite the Common, and B.F. Keith's Vaudeville, Washington St., Boston, Massachusetts, 1931.

Images

  • Keith's interior, ca.1894

  • Advertisement, 1897

  • Night view of Keith's, ca.1900s

  • Postcard of decorations by Virgilio Tojetti, ca.1900s

  • Detail of 1911 map of Boston, showing Keith's

  • Advertisement for Clark & Bergman; Belle Baker; Adelaide & J.J. Hughes, 1917

Coordinates: 42°21′14.55″N 71°3′49.13″W / 42.3540417°N 71.0636472°W / 42.3540417; -71.0636472

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