The Apollo Theater Chicago was built in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood in 1978. Located on 2540 N. Lincoln Ave., Apollo has 440 seats and a lobby featuring art exhibitions and a full bar. Currently it is the home of the hit Million Dollar Quartet music and home of the Emerald City Theater Company.
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History
The Apollo Theater Chicago is not the first Chicago theater to have the Apollo name. In 1921, theater producer A. H. Woods opened the Apollo Theater in Chicago's Loop District, on the corner of Randolph and Dearborn Road. Originally operated as a playhouse, the old Apollo Theater was sold in 1927 to the United Artists Corporation and renamed the United Artists Theater. It was destroyed in 1989.
Notable productions at the new Apollo include David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago, starring James Belushi, Balm in Gilead with John Malkovich and Gary Sinise, old game The Vagina Monologues, and A Nutcracker Christmas written by children's recordings. child. artist Ralph Covert of Ralph World and G. Riley Mills.
The Apollo Theater Chicago has nothing to do with the Apollo Theater in New York City.
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External links
- Official website
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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