Alcazar Theatre, Theatre and masonic temple in San Francisco, United States
The Alcazar Theatre is a theater on Geary Street in San Francisco, housed inside a former Masonic temple. The building has a single main stage and seats around 500 people.
The building was constructed in 1917 for the Shriners, a fraternal order tied to Freemasonry, and was designed by architect T. Patterson Ross. Decades later it was converted into a theater and has hosted performances since.
The Alcazar Theatre sits on Geary Street, which San Francisco locals know as the heart of the city's theater district. Stepping inside means moving between ornate Moorish-style details and the working life of an active stage.
The theater sits in a part of San Francisco where venues and restaurants are close together, making it easy to combine an evening out. It is worth checking what is on before visiting, as the program changes regularly.
The building's facade was modeled on the Alhambra in Granada, making it one of the few examples of Moorish-style architecture applied to an American theater. This style was unusual even for Masonic temples of that era in the United States.
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