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Theaters have played a major role in Washington State’s cultural history, as purveyors of film and performance art, as community gathering places, and as architectural landmarks. Join us for a special look at theater history with renowned author and historian Lawrence Kreisman!
Larry, who curated MOHAI’s 1981 theater exhibition, will present a lecture on Seattle theater history. For its youth and size, Seattle had a broad ranging reputation in entertainment. In fact, in 1909, it was reputed to be second only to New York in the number and variety of live offerings. It was the home and training ground for theater entrepreneurs who ultimately established enormous national and international empires—John Cort, Alexander Pantages, and Sullivan and Considine. Others, including John Hanna, James Clemmer, Russell and Drew, John Hamrick, Jensen and von Herberg, and John Danz, built substantial local or regional organizations. Seattle’s premier theater architects, B. Marcus Priteca, E. W. Houghton, and R.C. Reamer, also built reputations that extended far beyond the city.
Only a small number of Seattle’s many legitimate stage houses, vaudeville, and motion picture palaces are still intact. Come learn about them and other important historic theaters across Washington State through this virtual presentation.
Lawrence Kreisman, Hon. AIA Seattle, was Program Director of Historic Seattle for 20 years and Director of the Seattle Architecture Foundation tour program from 1990-2003. He has been recognized for significant work in bringing public attention to the Northwest’s architectural heritage and its preservation through courses, tours, exhibitions, lectures, articles, and 11 books. His publications include Apartments by Anhalt; The Stimson Legacy: Architecture in the Urban West; The Bloedel Reserve: Gardens in the Forest; Made to Last: Historic Preservation in Seattle and King County, and Dard Hunter: The Graphic Works. He was editor and contributor to Tradition and Change on Seattle’s First Hill: Propriety, Profanity, Pills, and Preservation and co-author and curator, with Glenn Mason, of The Arts and Crafts Movement in the Pacific Northwest. Kreisman wrote design features for The Seattle Times Pacific Northwest Magazine from 1988-2012 and for Preservation, Old House Interiors, Old House Journal, Arts & Crafts Homes and the Revival, and Style 1900.
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