![]() ![]() When it opened October 26, 1921, the 3,880-seat theater was promoted as the "Wonder Theatre of the World". The original 1921 interior decoration of the auditorium included fourteen large romantic French-themed murals surrounding the proscenium by Chicago artist Louis Grell (1887–1960), a common feature that Rapp and Rapp architects included in their movie palace designs. It is the oldest surviving example of this style in Chicago. The Chicago Theatre was among the earliest theaters in the nation to be built in Rapp and Rapp's signature Neo-Baroque French- revival style. Preceded by the now-demolished Tivoli Theatre of Chicago and Capitol Theatre of New York City, the Chicago Theatre was the ".largest, most costly and grandest of the super deluxe movie palaces" built up to that date and thus now the oldest surviving grand movie palace. The Rapp brothers also designed many other B&K properties in Chicago, including the Oriental and Uptown Theatres. Rapp were primary architects and the final construction cost was $4 million ($60.8 million in 2021 dollars ). The theater would become the flagship for 28 theaters in the city and over 100 others in the Midwestern United States that B&K operated in conjunction with the Paramount Publix chain. Ībe and Barney Balaban, together with Sam and Morris Katz-founders of the Balaban and Katz theater chain, built the Chicago Theatre in 1921 as one of a large chain of opulent motion picture houses. ![]() ![]() The Y-shaped figure behind the horizontal word Chicago on the State Street marquee is the city's " municipal device," a badge which symbolizes the forked Chicago River at Wolf Point. The distinctive Chicago Theatre marquee, "an unofficial emblem of the city", appears frequently in film, television, artwork, and photography. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 6, 1979, and was listed as a Chicago Landmark on January 28, 1983. owns and operates the Chicago Theatre as a performing arts venue for stage plays, magic shows, comedy, speeches, sporting events and popular music concerts. Along with the other B&K theaters, from 1925 to 1945 the Chicago Theatre was a dominant movie theater enterprise. Balaban, his brother Barney Balaban and partner Sam Katz. Built in 1921, the Chicago Theatre was the flagship for the Balaban and Katz (B&K) group of theaters run by A. The Chicago Theatre, originally known as the Balaban and Katz Chicago Theatre, is a landmark theater located on North State Street in the Loop area of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Neo-Baroque/ Neoclassical (exterior) French Baroque ( Neo-Baroque)(interior) University Theater is committed to nurturing artistic practice and affecting catharsis across campus. ![]() Most recently, Halena Kays and Jay Torrence of The Ruffians led students in devising a circus event based on the life and work of Studs Terkel entitled Buried in Bughouse Square, which premiered at the University of Chicago's own Studs Terkel Festival. In 2013, The New Colony and UT/TAPS devised and premiered reWILDing Genius, which went on to feature in Steppenwolf’s Garage Rep series that Winter. In 2012, Mickle Maher of Theater Oobleck workshopped a stage adaptation of Stanislavski’s An Actor Prepares, and UT/TAPS presented its premiere. The UT/TAPS Pro Show invites writers and companies to develop and devise new work, through classes and rehearsal and production. The UT/TAPS Acting Studio production offers student actors the chance to work with directors like Audrey Francis of Black Box Acting, next to fellow students as well as professional actors. Twice a year, TAPS invites directors, writers and designers from around the city to serve student performance and to develop new work with those students. In addition to supporting student direction, TAPS offers opportunities for collaboration with Chicago theater professionals. We are excited to offer resources and audience to students with ambition, regardless of their major or minor. From the smallest workshop reading to the largest mainstage, all of our productions are proposed, directed, designed and performed by students. We now produce over thirty-five shows a year, across five distinct theater spaces, with an annual audience of ten thousand. University Theater has brought student-driven performance to UChicago since 1898. Check out the official University Theater Website here ![]()
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