Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Performance theatre at Exhibition Place, Toronto, Canada
The Queen Elizabeth Theatre is an auditorium inside the Queen Elizabeth Building at Exhibition Place, which also holds administration offices and an exhibition hall. The building houses the Fountainblu Banquet Centre, with 5,500 square feet of indoor meeting space, and box offices at the entrance. Seating is about 2,350 for concerts and stage events; one reviewer called the sound near-perfect but the room better suited to lectures or plays than rock shows.
The building was constructed in 1956 as part of converting Exhibition Place, a former military site, into an entertainment complex. This project was part of a larger effort to transform the grounds into a cultural venue.
Since 2006 the theatre has been run under a long-term lease by Bruno Sinopoli, former owner of Toronto's now-closed Mod Club. The City of Toronto owns the building. A music reviewer wrote that its near-perfect sound suits a lecture or a play better than a rock show.
The theatre sits inside the Queen Elizabeth Building at Exhibition Place, which also holds administration offices and an exhibition hall. Box offices for events are at the building entrance. The auditorium seats roughly 2,350 for concerts and stage events, and the building contains the Fountainblu Banquet Centre with 5,500 square feet of indoor meeting space.
Since 2006 the City of Toronto-owned building has been run under a long-term lease by Bruno Sinopoli, former owner of the now-defunct Mod Club. A music reviewer wrote that the hall has near-perfect sound but that its stateliness suits a lecture or a play better than a rock show.
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