Pantages Theater Broadway Center for the Performing Arts

Theater in Tacoma, Washington

Tacoma Arts Live is a 501(c)(3) not-profit organization located in the historic Theater District (901 Broadway) of downtown Tacoma, Washington. Encompassing the Pantages, Rialto, and Theatre on the Square, Tacoma Arts Live manages the largest complex of theaters between Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon. Additionally, Tacoma Arts Live Conservatory and Education Department provide i of the largest performing arts education programs in Washington country.

Since 1918, Tacoma Arts Alive has been host to many famous figures and world-class artists such as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Babe Ruth, Ronald Reagan, Hal Holbrook, Debbie Reynolds, Martin Short, Queen Latifah, Joan Rivers, Wanda Sykes and Colleen Ballinger/Miranda Sings.

Theater history [edit]

Pantages Theater [edit]

The cake at present occupied by the Pantages Theater was once the site of a saloon, Tacoma's kickoff library, and Tacoma's get-go department store. In 1908, William Jones of Walla Walla bought the block and razed the buildings. Presently after, Greek immigrant Alexander Pantages arrived in the northwest with dreams of owning a concatenation of cute vaudeville theaters beyond the country. Cheers to fiscal assistance from his mistress and business organisation partner, "Klondike" Kate Rockwell, Pantages and Jones were able to raise the funds for the combination Jones Edifice and Pantages Theater, which cost $400,000.

Construction began in 1916, and the new Pantages Theater, the second of the Pantages chain, opened in January 1918. Often regarded as the most beautiful, the Tacoma Pantages was designed by Seattle architect B. Marcus Priteca after an ornate theater in the Palace of Versailles. The Tacoma Pantages served equally a live theater for only eight years before existence converted to a picture firm and being sold to RKO, at which time the proper noun was changed to the Orpheum. In 1932, the theater was purchased by Will Conner of Tacoma and was known as the Roxy until the 1980s when it was renamed the Pantages Theater.

A proposal to restore the Pantages equally the cornerstone of a revitalized downtown expanse led to the restoration showtime in 1978 after the city bought the theater. On February 12, 1983, the Pantages Theater officially reopened, making 2005 its 22nd anniversary flavor, and its 87th altogether. Today information technology is the oldest of the Pantages Theaters nevertheless in operation.

Rialto Theater [edit]

Hailed as "the ultimate photoplay firm," the Beaux-Arts fashion Rialto Theater opened September 7, 1918. Tacoma's Rialto was office of a national movie house chain and as such, the phase infinite, orchestra pit and dressing rooms were at a bare minimum. The entrance hall was also considerably smaller than what is present today.

These vaudeville-era theater architects concentrated on the auditorium, seeking acoustically successful theaters and concert halls every bit models for the ones they designed. The Rialto resembles Vienna's 1916 Redoutensaal, the starting time "shoe box" shaped orchestral hall. The original ornate plaster decorations include replicas of cupids and patriotic eagles, which remain in practiced shape today.

By the 1990s, when Tacoma and the Broadway Theater District took on the task of restoring the Rialto, it had go a run-downwardly, second-run discount picture palace. Today, it is once once again an active thespian in the prosperity of downtown Tacoma.

Theatre on the Square [edit]

The 3rd theater, Theatre on the Square, was designed by architects Broome, Oringdulph, O'Toole, Rudolf, Boles and Associates of Portland, Oregon, with Jones & Roberts Company of Lacey overseeing construction.

$xi.8 million raised from private and public sectors provided the foundation for a revitalized theater district. Opened in October 1993, the 302-seat theater and a new rehearsal hall sit adjacent to the Pantages.

Theatre on the Square has total production capabilities including a rehearsal room, scene store, costume shop, and storage areas.

Artists, performers and premieres [edit]

1920s [edit]

Mae West
The Marx Brothers
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry Houdini
Bob Promise
Infant Ruth
Factor Tunney

1930s [edit]

King Kong
Scarface
Mutiny on the Compensation
Pinnacle Chapeau
Mod Times
Gone with the Wind
The Wizard of Oz

1940s [edit]

Ronald Reagan
Jack Benny
Hellzapoppin
Jack Dempsey

1980s [edit]

Victor Borge
Diane Schuur
Marcel Marceau
Dizzie Gillespie
Hal Holbrook
Marker Russell
Myron Floren
Itzhak Perlman
Nikolai Arnoldovich Petrov
Glenn Miller Orchestra

1990s [edit]

Alvin Ailey
Bill Maher
Dave Barry
Marvin Hamlisch
Victor Borge
Wynton Marsalis
Chick Corea
Gregory Peck
Debbie Reynolds

2000s [edit]

Bob Newhart
Blind Boys of Alabama
David Sedaris
Garrison Keillor
Martin Curt
Omara Portuondo
Queen Latifah
Doc Watson
Randy Newman
Treasure Island
Sleeping Beauty
My Fair Lady
Circumspection: Men at Work
RENT
Grease
Ricky Skaggs
Fiddler on the Roof
Spectrum Dance Co
Joan Baez
The Spencer'southward Theatre of Illusion
Josh Blue
Rush Limbaugh in Night School
Baton Joel and Twyla Tharp's Movin' Out
An Evening with Randy Cohen
Immature Rex Arthur
Magic School Bus
Doyle'south Cabaret
Fancy-free
James & Behemothic Peach
Chicago
PHANTOM
Ballet Folklorico
Mick Maloney
Newport Jazz 2002
Forbidden Broadway
Cinderella
Sleeping Dazzler
Capitol Steps
South Sound Slam
Peking Acrobats
Yesterday: Beatles
Les Ballet Africains
The Sound of Music
Ballet Folklorico de Mexico
Seattle Men's Chorus
Ira Glass
Dave Barry
Approximate How Much I Love Y'all
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Tap Dogs
Hawaiian Slack Key
Soweto Gospel Choir
Urban Cowboy: The Musical
Out of Mist…A Dragon
Shanghai Acrobats
Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Sophisticated Ladies
Lee Greenwood
Pinkish Floyd Experience
Nobodies of Comedy
Mad Science: Newton's Revenge
Operation Homecoming
Peter Yarrow with Bethany and Rufus
Lavay Smith and Her Reddish Hot Skillet Lickers
Defending the Caveman
Strut Your Mutt
Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars
Peter Pan: The High Flight Musical
Pino Leafage Boys
Highland Heath & Holler
The Wonder Bread Years
Four Slices of Wry
Cirqueworks Birdhouse Factory
Ragamala Music & Dance Theater
Dying To Be Thin
The Interim Visitor (The Tempest/Moby Dick "Rehearsed")
Non a Genuine Black Man
Garrison Keillor
Acia Gray & Tapestry Dance Visitor'south Souls of Our Feet
Show Style
Woven Harmony
3 Redneck Tenors: A New Musical Take a chance
An Afternoon of Classic Lily Tomlin
Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Practice Spring!: Aerial Dance
Altar Boyz
Judy Collins with Tacoma Symphony Orchestra & Jonatha Brooke
Book-Information technology Repertory Theatre's Fifty-fifty Cowgirls Get the Blues
An Evening with David Sedaris
An Evening with Martin Short
Scrooge: The Movie Musical

2010s [edit]

Joan Rivers
Wanda Sykes
Ira Drinking glass
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Gaelic Storm
Smothers Brothers
Jo Dee Messina
Margaret Cho
Baronial Wilson's Seven Guitars
Nanci Griffith
Sweeney Todd: A Musical Thriller in Concert
Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Wayne Brady
Video Games Live
Colleen Ballinger/Miranda Sings

References [edit]

HistoryLink.org
Pantages History
City of Tacoma
Theatre Puget Sound
Official Website

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