December 24, 1928 (1928-12-24)as a vaudeville/movie house 1981 (1981)Re-opened March 1988 (1988-03)Re-opened
Renovated
1955 as a cinemascope film house March 1988 (1988-03)
Closed
1980 (1980) December 1985 (1985-12)
Architect
Horace Trumbauer
Website
www.keswicktheatre.com
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Built
1928
Architect
Horace Trumbauer
Architectural style
Tudor Revival
NRHP reference No.
83002263[1]
Added to NRHP
June 30, 1983
The Keswick Theatre is a theater in the Keswick Village section of Glenside, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. Horace Trumbauer designed the exterior in the Tudor Revival Style, which has remained essentially unaltered. When opened it had 1,366 seats.[2]
The first performance was on Christmas Day in 1928 in a private event held for the Kiwanis Club. The Keswick Theatre opened to the public on December 27 with vaudeville and the film Glorious Betsy. Shot as a silent film with some speaking sequences, the Keswick showed a silent version as the sound equipment was not yet ready. In 1955 the theatre was renovated to show CinemaScope films.[2]
The theatre operated until 1980. After closing it was threatened with demolition until a community group formed to re-open it as a live performance venue. During this period the Keswick presented performances by Fred Waring and the Young Pennsylvanians and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. The venue also hosted performances by Theodore Bikel, Lionel Hampton, Carlos Montoya and Roberta Peters. The theater closed again in 1985 and reopened in 1988 under private ownership. The new owners established a restoration fund for repairs, restoration, and equipment upgrades.[3] The theatre has been described as "acoustically luscious"[2] and was fully restored by 1994.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[4] It has been owned by AEG Live since 2008.[5]
^NRHP Listings
^ abcDuckworth, Ken; Haas, Howard B. (September 11, 2004). "Keswick Theatre". Cinema Treasures. Retrieved September 5, 2020.
^DelSordo, Marlo (July 20, 2018). "History of the Keswick Theater: Closed Twice & Almost Demolished". Glenside Local. Glenside, Pennsylvania. Retrieved September 5, 2020.
^"Keswick Theatre 83002263". Retrieved September 5, 2020.
^Peters, Mitchell (June 26, 2008). "AEG Live Acquires Keswick Theatre in Philadelphia". Billboard.com. Retrieved September 5, 2020.
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