The Chicago Theater in America first opened on October 26, 1921. The estimated building cost was around $4,000,000, a huge amount back then. The sign out front read "CHICAGO" and is approximately six stories high.
England's first public theatres opened under whose rule?
it was first opened in 1599
Cats first opened on Broadway in the Winter Garden Theater.
First store was opened in Chicago in 1901
The first indoor movie theater with more than one screen actually opened in Los Angeles. It was 1937 and it was the Alhambra Theater.
According the the Cinema Treasures webite, here are the oldest movie theatres on the southwest side that I know of and the year they opened: Marquette Theater - 1917 (at 63rd and Kedzie) Colony Theater - 1926 (at 59th and Kedzie) Brighton Theater - 1929 (in Brighton Park on Archer Ave.) Ramova Theater - 1929 (at 35th and Halsted)
The Colonial Theater in Boston opened its doors for its first performance on December 20, 1900. The performance was Ben Hur.
The first theater exclusively for movies was built by Harry Davis and John P. Harris. It opened in June of 1905 in Pittsburgh, PA.
Chicago Shakespeare Theater was created in 1974.
Chicago Opera Theater was created in 1974.
Marshall Field
The first building expressly intended to be used as a theatre was The Theatre, which opened in 1576.