Ritz Theatre, Historic theatre in LaVilla, Jacksonville, United States.

The Ritz Theatre is a 1920s building in Jacksonville's LaVilla neighborhood that functions as both a performance venue and a museum dedicated to African American history. The auditorium seats around 400 people and is fitted with modern sound and lighting equipment, while connected gallery rooms display objects and documents from the local community's past.

The Ritz Theater was designed in the Art Deco style by local architect Jefferson Powell and built in 1929 on the site of an earlier Ritz movie house in LaVilla, then known as the "Harlem of the South". After the district's decline from the 1970s, Mayor Ed Austin's River City Renaissance plan allocated $4.2 million for renovation; work began in 1998 and the theatre and museum reopened on September 30, 1999. Only the sign and the northwest corner survive of the original building.

The LaVilla neighborhood where the Ritz Theatre stands was once known as the heart of Black cultural life in Jacksonville. The gallery spaces inside display photos, personal objects, and documents tied directly to the performers and community members who shaped that life.

The theatre seats 426 and shares its building with the LaVilla Museum, whose 11,000 square feet of exhibits sit just off the lobby; the lobby itself is used for private functions, so parts of the building can be closed to visitors during an event. Programming covers music, dance, theatre and film, so check what is on before travelling.

The Art Deco building by local architect Jefferson Powell dates from 1929, but only the sign and the northwest corner survive from that structure; the rest was rebuilt in the $4.2 million River City Renaissance renovation, reopened on September 30, 1999.