Palace Theatre, Historic movie theater in downtown Hilo, United States.

The Palace Theater is a two-story Beaux-Arts building from 1925 in downtown Hilo, designed by Davis & Fishbourne. Its front facade has five bays split by a metal marquee; the three central bays carry broken pediments and decorative urns above the second-floor windows, and a balustraded parapet runs along the top. Inside are a restored lobby with a cafe, steeply banked amphitheater seating in three tiers, and a decorative proscenium framing the stage.

The Palace Theater was built in 1925 to designs by the architects Davis & Fishbourne in the Beaux-Arts style, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 11, 1993. After closing as a commercial cinema, it reopened in 1998 as an arthouse venue and performance space.

The Palace Theater hosts concerts year-round, a spring variety-show fundraiser with local talent, and an autumn musical staged over a month. Independent films screen throughout the year. During the COVID-19 pandemic it produced the Live From the Empty Palace web series, with Hawaiian artists such as Kainani Kahaunaele and Lopaka Rootz; it yielded a Nā Hōkū Hanohano finalist compilation album and a 12-episode PBS series.

The building is accessible from downtown Hilo, and visitors should check in advance about event schedules and availability. It is helpful to confirm whether the theater is open for public visits on your intended date.

The auditorium holds a large Robert Morton pipe organ, much of it original to the 1925 building. Moved to the Hilo Theater in 1940, it survived that building's destruction in the 1960 tsunami; Roger Angell bought the pipework, installed it in his Honolulu home, then donated it back, and it was enlarged with pipes from the demolished Waikiki Theatre.