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Please only submit sites here that are concerned primarily with the architecture of theaters, cinemas or opera houses.
Structures designed for viewing dramas, operas and other spectacles either on stage or on screen or both. Theatres were open-air in ancient Greece and Rome, but usually covered in Europe from the 16th century. An intermediate form was partially covered.

Ancient Theaters

The theaters of the ancient Classical world.

Balaban and Katz

A corporation which built a chain of movie palaces in Chicago in the 1920s, designed by architects Rapp and Rapp.

Elizabethan Theaters

Theatres built in England in the period 1558-1603, and their reconstruction.

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