Professional and Suffolk Theatre Department performances are among the offerings at the new Modern Theatre. Here Professor Wesley Savick directs students in Car Talk: The Musical. The musical comedy, inspired by the National Public Radio show, was…
Architect Clarence H. Blackall (1857-1942) was known for his hundreds of theaters, but he also designed one of Boston’s first skyscrapers, the nine-story Carter Winthrop Building at 7 Water St. Blackall also designed 17 theaters in and around Boston.…
A play written by Harry Hom Dow depicting farcical scenes from the Law Division office at Ellis Island, especially regarding Chinese immigrants seeking admission to the United States.
Modern Theatre owner Jacob Lourie built a theater empire as owner of New England Theatres Operating Company, or NETOCO, which at its height operated 35 theaters. The company was affiliated with the Paramount studio until antitrust action broke up…
Pictured are Stephen Fougian, Sydney Attenberg, [Gamer?] Bethel, George Barney, Timothy McInerny, Norman Robinson, Frank Rindone, Alfred [Hinzer], Bill Kelley, and Robert Jameson (transcribed from verso)
Hand drawn illustration of a scene from a play written by Harry Hom Dow about the review of a case in the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service in which the applicant, a Chinese man played by Dow, is denied admission to the United…