Empire Theatre
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Empire Theatre or Empire Theater may refer to:
In the United Kingdom:
In the United States:
Other:
In the United Kingdom:
- Empire Theatre of Varieties, now the Empire, Leicester Square, City of Westminster, London
- Glasgow Empire TheatreGlasgow Empire TheatreGlasgow Empire Theatre, known as The Glasgow Palace Empire until the early 1900s, was a variety theatre in Glasgow, Scotland, which opened in 1897 on the site of the Gaiety Theatre at 31-35 Sauchiehall Street....
, Glasgow - Hackney EmpireHackney EmpireThe Hackney Empire is a theatre on Mare Street, in the London Borough of Hackney, built in 1901 as a music hall.-History:Hackney Empire is a grade II* listed building...
, in Hackney - Liverpool Empire TheatreLiverpool Empire TheatreLiverpool Empire Theatre is located on the corner of Lime Street and London Road in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. The theatre is the second to be built on the site, and was opened in 1925. It has the largest two-tier auditorium in Britain and can seat 2,350 people...
, Liverpool - New Empire TheatreNew Empire TheatreThe New Empire Theatre is a historic and current theater in Southend, Essex, England.-History:The New Empire Theatre was built in 1896 by theatre impresario Frederick Marlow. He had owned the public hall previously on the site, and converted it to The Empire Theatre in 1892. A fire on Boxing Day...
, Southend-on-Sea - Sunderland Empire Theatre, Sunderland
In the United States:
- Empire Theater, now known as the Mainstreet TheaterMainstreet Theater-The AMC Era:AMC Theaters, then known as Durwood Theatres, bought the theater in the late 1950s and reopened it in December 1960 as the Empire. The first film shown at the theater under the new name was Exodus. The standard seating configuration of the new Empire was reduced to 1260 in order to...
, Kansas City, Missouri - Empire Theatre (New York City)Empire Theatre (New York City)The Empire Theatre in New York City was a prominent Broadway theatre in the first half of the twentieth century. It opened in 1893 with a performance of The Girl I Left Behind Me by David Belasco. The Empire continued to present both original plays and revivals until 1953. Its final show, in May...
, a now demolished Broadway theatre
Other:
- The Empire TheatreThe Empire TheatreThe Empire Theatre is located in Toowoomba, Queensland, and is a fine example of art deco architecture. It is a heritage site listed by the National Trust of Queensland....
, Toowoomba, Australia - Empire TheatresEmpire TheatresEmpire Theatres Limited is the second-largest movie theatre chain in Canada, and the only major circuit operating in Atlantic Canada. A subsidiary of Empire Company Ltd., the family-owned parent of the Sobeys supermarket chain presently owns and operates 51 locations in 8 of 10 provinces, from...
, the second-largest movie theatre chain in Canada
See also
- Moss EmpiresMoss EmpiresMoss Empires was a British company formed in Edinburgh from the merger of the theatre companies owned by Sir Edward Moss and Sir Oswald Stoll in 1898. This created the largest British chain of music halls...
, the company that owned many Empire Theatres in the United Kingdom