Cutler Majestic Theatre, Beaux Arts theater in Theater District, Boston, US.
The Cutler Majestic Theatre is a Beaux-Arts theatre on Tremont Street in Boston's Theater District. The hall seats around 1,200 people and has a fully equipped stage used for music, dance, and dramatic productions.
The building was designed in 1903 by architect John Galen Howard and opened as a vaudeville house for variety performances. Over the following decades it became a cinema before Emerson College acquired it in 1983 and converted it into an arts education venue.
The theatre is run by Emerson College and regularly hosts student and guest productions ranging from opera to contemporary dance. Audiences sit beneath painted ceilings and gilded ornaments that give the hall the feel of a grand early 20th-century European opera house.
The theatre sits in the heart of Boston's Theater District and is within walking distance of several subway stops. Arriving a little early is worth it, as the entrance lobby has ornate details that reward a slow look before the show.
The building is one of the few theatres in Boston that has kept most of its original early 20th-century Beaux-Arts interior. The painted dome above the main hall and the ornate box seating have survived more than a century of changes in use with little alteration.
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