Connor Palace, Theater in Playhouse Square, Cleveland, United States
Connor Palace is a theater building on Euclid Avenue in the Playhouse Square district of Cleveland, Ohio. It was designed in the French Renaissance style, with a grand entrance hall, marble wall coverings, and seating arranged across several levels.
The building opened in 1922 as Keith's Palace Theatre, part of a vaudeville circuit that brought traveling performers to large cities. Over the following decades it became a cinema, and later reopened as a performing arts venue.
The Connor Palace sits in Playhouse Square, one of the largest theater districts in the country outside New York City. Walking through the district, visitors find several old theaters standing side by side, most of them still in regular use.
The theater sits on Euclid Avenue in downtown Cleveland and is easy to reach on foot or by public transit. Since it mainly hosts touring shows and concerts on set dates, it is worth planning your visit in advance and booking early.
During a renovation in the 1980s, the theater's original chandeliers from 1922 were restored and put back in place in the entrance hall. There are more than 150 of them, and they are still hanging in the same spots where they were installed when the building first opened.
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