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Sand Mountain Amphitheater
700 Smpa Blvd, Albertville, AL
Virginia Samford Theatre
1116 26th Street South, Birmingham, AL
Mission Statement
The Virginia Samford Theatre's mission is to further the cultural opportunities for the Greater Birmingham community through arts education and performances of high artistic merit in Theatre, Music, and Dance. The historic multi-purpose arts facility actively encourages participation in a diverse range of arts performances and educational services, providing a fertile foundation for community growth in Birmingham with access for all citizens.
In 1927, a new cultural destination opened its doors in Birmingham. This intimate theater brought together a wide range of the community's residents to enjoy thought-provoking new performances and soul-stirring classics. Much has changed about Birmingham in the years since, but the venue now known as the Virginia Samford Theatre remains a singular hub of creative insight and diverse entertainment
Birmingham Festival Theatre
1901 1/2 - 11th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL
Mission
To create quality theatre that challenges and entertains our audiences and nurtures talent.
History
BFT has staged over 250 productions—involving more than 50 directors and nearly 1,000 actors and 500 crew people—that have been seen by almost 100,000 audience members.
In the spring of 1972, three young Birmingham thespians—Carl Stewart, Randy Marsh, and Vic Fichtner—entered a new phase in their theatrical lives. After chafing under the artistic limitations of the area's production environments, they picked up the pieces of Bill Ozier's Actors Studio and began a venture they called Birmingham Festival Theatre.
Terrific New Theatre
2112 5th Ave N,, Birmingham, AL
The mission of Terrific New Theatre is to promote the presence of non-profit community theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, and the surrounding region, through presentation of a distinctive season of high-quality contemporary programs. In addition, TNT will act as a showcase for local talent and as a workshop/lab where theatre folk can experience hands-on participation.
Sidewalk Film Center and Cinema
1821 2nd Avenue North,, Birmingham, AL
Sidewalk is a federally recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to encouraging filmmaking in Alabama and building audiences for independent film.
We produce the nationally recognized Sidewalk Film Festival, the SHOUT LGBTQ Film Festival; organize a wide variety of educational programs for filmmakers and hold other events that create interest in and enthusiasm for independent film. To expand on this work and better serve our mission we have opened the Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, a two-screen independent movie theater in the heart of Birmingham’s historic theatre district.
For two decades our organization’s premier event has been the Sidewalk Film Festival, which showcases the work of more than 250 filmmakers and welcomes 15,000 film lovers to Birmingham annually. Since its debut in 1998, filmmakers from across the country and around the world have come to Birmingham to screen their work at Sidewalk and have been thrilled to discover enthusiastic crowds eager to devour new independent cinema. The Festival continues to thrive with increased submissions, ticket sales, and press coverage.
Sidewalk celebrates inclusion and diversity for the benefit of the community and our employees. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
Alabama Theatre
1817 Third Avenue North, Birmingham, AL
About Us:
The Alabama Theatre was built in 1927 by Paramount Studios as an Alabama showcase for Paramount films. It was used primarily as a movie palace for 55 years, with the exception of the annual Miss Alabama pagent and the weekly Mickey Mouse Club. In 1987, the owners of the facility declared bankruptcy and the theatre was purchased by Birmingham Landmarks Inc., a non-profit corporation.
The new Alabama Theatre for the Performing Arts hosts many live events, as well as films. Each year the Theatre hosts over 300 events attended by a half million Birmingham area citizens.
In 1998, the Theatre underwent a complete front door to back door restoration. The work was done by EverGreene Studios from New York City. In 8 months, the theatre went from its look of faded grandeur to a sparkling 1927 look with all the gold leaf paint either replaced or cleaned. In addition to the restoration, new carpet was installed in the ladies lounge and new drapes were installed on the stage and organ chambers.
Kohl Academy of Performing Arts
1908 Gunter Avenue, Guntersville, AL
Kohl Academy of performing Arts was founded in 1977 as the Jane Kohl School of Dance . We are commited to providing high-quality performance classes to enhance the overall development of the child. We provide a safe and child-centered environment to encourage our students to explore the performance arts with qualified, nurturing teachers.
We believe that performance training encourages young people to develop a positive self-image as they increase awareness of their physical being. Along with improving coordination skills and developing muscular awareness.
Our classes are structured to stress proper technique through the use of standard terminology. Classes are well supervised while basics are taught with a positive approach in a fun environment. Class enrollment is limited in the preschool classes to 12. Beginner, Intermediate, and advanced classes may be larger.
Our teachers have studied with DANCE MASTERS OF AMERICA and regularly attend master classes to maintain a high quality of teaching techniques and keep in tune with workshops to further their dance education.
The Whole Backstage Theatre
1120 Rayburn Avenue, Guntersville, AL
MISSION
The mission of the Whole Backstage, Inc. is to provide our community and the surrounding areas with a cultural outlet of live theatre and the performing arts as performers, laborers, crew and audience members. An emphasis is placed on a creative environment in which people are entertained, engaged and educated.
Merrimack Hall Performing Arts Center
3320 Triana Boulevard, Huntsville, AL
The Mission:
Merrimack Hall Performing Arts Center's mission is to provide educational and performance opportunities to Huntsville's established and emerging performers. Merrimack Hall strives to bring national and international performing arts to the community of Huntsville.
Fantasy Playhouse Children's Theatre
3312 Long Avenue Southwest, Huntsville, AL
About Us:
Fantasy Playhouse Children's Theater is a non-profit organization. Our goal is to bring the love of theater and stagecraft to the youth of north Alabama. Fantasy Playhouse has three major branches, Productions, The Fantasy Academy, and the Fantasy Players.
Mission:
The mission of Fantasy Playhouse Children's Theater is to develop, foster, and encourage the education, interest and ability of the children of Huntsville and North Alabama in creative theater arts and crafts.
Broadway Theatre League
700 Monroe Street, Suite 410, Huntsville, AL
The purpose of the Broadway Theatre League of Huntsville is to provide professional live theatre for citizens of the Tennessee Valley area to complete a well-rounded educational and cultural program and to provide students of the Tennessee Valley area a special opportunity to develop an appreciation of, and love for, live theatre through these educational experiences.
History
1959 until 1976 all performances were held at Huntsville High School.
1976 to present: All shows are now performed at the VBC Concert Hall.
1959 to 1974: Each season show had only one performance.
1974 to 1984: Each season show had two performances.
1984 to 1993: Each season show had three performances.
1993 to present: Each season gradually increased to our current season standard of five performance per show.
1959 to 1982: The Professional Women's Club sponsored all season shows.
In 2000 due to an increase in show costs and to help BTL continue to bring professional touring shows to Huntsville, sponsorship was divided into title sponsorship for an entire season and also individual show sponsors. Broadway Theatre League is a non-profit organization who greatly depend on sponsor contributions.
Renaissance Theatre
1214 Meridian Street, Huntsville, AL
About
Bringing people to the theater and theater to the people to create a community both to entertain and provide enhanced educational opportunities and personal growth.
Founded in 1998 by Robert Baker, as a non-profit 501(c)3 with donations being fully tax deductible .
Theatre Tuscaloosa
9500 Old Greensboro Road, Suite 135, Tuscaloosa, AL
Mission:
To elevate the consciousness of theater in the greater Tuscaloosa community by providing quality theater opportunities for people interested in participating in live theater and contributing to the cultural education, entertainment, and enrichment of the community through attending live theater.
The Historic Ritz Theater
111 W. Third Street, Sheffield, AL
About Us:
In 1985, the Tennessee Valley Art Association restored the historic Ritz Theater in Sheffield as a home for its performing arts programs. The Ritz, a former silent movie house, was built in 1927. It was remodeled in the popular Art Deco style in the early 1930s to "accommodate the talkies". The Art Deco style was retained when it was remodeled in 1985. The theater is now used by the community for plays, concerts, seminars, receptions, lectures, pageants, and more.
Shoals Community Theatre
123 North Seminary Street, Florence, AL
About The Theatre
The Shoals Community Theatre is a 501c3 nonprofit organization.
Our theatre first opened its doors in October of 1943 and we hope to bring it back to its former glory!
SCT strives to provide the Shoals with unique entertainment so our community can experience the theatre.
Mobile Saenger Theatre
6 South Joachim Street, Mobile, AL
History:
Mobile's Saenger Theatre opened on January 19, 1927, it was the sixty-first Saenger theatre of a chain founded by J.H. and A.D. Saenger of New Orleans. There were Saenger Theatres located throughout the South as well as in Cuba and Puerto Rico. Hailed as, "Alabama's Greatest Showplace" and, "the most beautiful playhouse in all of Dixie," the Mobile Saenger Theatre took a year to construct at a cost of about 500,000 dollars. Designed by renowned architect, Emile Weil, the Mobile Saenger Theatre featured the following : three-color auditorium lighting, a two-manuel, ten-rank Robert Morton theatre organ, full stage facilities to accommodate large road shows including stage and wardrobe traps, four floors of dressing rooms, musicians' and chorus rooms and 2,615 seats. Around 1950, the seats on the floor were replaced and re-spaced, reducing the seating capacity to about 2,200. Seating capacity today is 1,921.
The building was designed in a continental style, intended to resemble European opera houses. The theatre's opera boxes that were located beneath the organ grilles were later removed to improve sightlines when the larger Cinemascope movie screen was installed. Other outstanding architectural features of the original building included: the tilted arcade, grand marble staircase, ornate lamps, chandeliers, statuary and door frames, a mezzanine and promenade. There were lavish furnishings in the men's "Stage Room," and the ladies' "At the Sign of the Lipstick," lounge which included magnificent draperies and carpets with the name of the theatre woven into the fabric.
The Saenger provided Mobilians with outstanding theatrical entertainment on the live stage and motion picture screen. The Saenger hosted silent movies, vaudeville shows, movies, dramatic and musical productions and was the setting for the first America's Junior Miss pageant. However--as was the case with many of these grand movie palaces--ownership changes, high maintenance costs and various other issues rendered many of these beautiful buildings nationwide, "white elephants." In fact, any were demolished to make way for parking lots and general urban development.
Then owners, ABC/Paramount, closed the Mobile Saenger and removed the projection equipment in early 1970. One the eve of demolition, the University of South Alabama bought the Saenger and saved it from destruction. It was partially renovated and re-opened as a performing arts center called the USA Saenger Theatre.
On October 1, 1999, the City of Mobile purchased the Saenger from the University of South Alabama. A new non-profit organization, called the Center for the Living Arts, Inc., was formed early in the year 2000 to operate the Saenger. The Center for the Living Arts with generous donations from the community restored the historic Mobile Saenger to its former glory, at a cost of about six million dollars.
The Saenger Theatre of Mobile now functions as a performing arts center and is the official home of the Mobile Symphony Orchestra. The Saenger features an annual Summer Movie Series and presents numerous concerts, lectures and special events. The Saenger Theatre is a historic landmark, dear to the hearts of Mobilians for its architectural grandeur and ties to our cultural history as well as for the extraordinary caliber of entertainment it offers our community today.
The Centre for the Living Arts, Inc. operates the historic Saenger Theatre and Space 301, a non-profit contemporary art gallery
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Mobile Theatre Guild
14 North Lafayette Street, Mobile, AL
Mission: to connect people with their creativity by training them in producing quality live theater. Our vision is of a community whose perspective of self and others is broadened through the arts education provided by diverse, quality theater.
Chickasaw Civic Theatre
801 Iroquois Street, Mobile, AL
The Chickasaw Civic Theatre was formed in 1963. That first season of 1963-64 saw the group perform Our Town, Charlie’s Aunt, The Mousetrap and Sabrina Fair.
The location of the theater has changed several times, prompting the founding members to name it “the tepee” since they had a movable home. The first theater was in the Gulf Homes auditorium. When that was torn down, a move was made to the old bottling plant on Highway 43. When that was no longer available the theater relocated to a former scout hut, known as the Healy-Van Leer Building, which was located in the hollow between Paul Devine Park and Chickasaw Elementary School. After the building was flooded a few times, the City of Chickasaw, under the leadership of then Mayor J. C. Davis, moved it to a location on Lange Drive, adjacent to City Hall. This took place in 1973, and was home to the theater until January 2005.
In 1996 the theater was named The Lola Phillips Playhouse, after Lola Phillips, who had been with the theater for most of its first 32 years. Lola retired as resident director in June of 1996. She once described the playhouse as “the last of the intimate theaters.”
The first musical was The Boyfriend, produced in 1973. Since then, CCT has produced such Broadway hits as Camelot, South Pacific, The Sound of Music, The Secret Garden, Damn Yankees, Man of La Mancha, My Fair Lady, Titanic and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
In 2000, CCT attained charitable, non-profit status, making it eligible for tax-deductible donations. A capital building campaign is continuing. We have raised over $200,000, allowing us to begin producing plays in the new facility. Additional funds are needed to complete the remodeling and fully utilize the building.