![]() ![]() A box office is set up on the main floor of the PPL building and revues such as the next year's original Strike A New Note are held to raise money for a new building. Temporary homes include the Lyric Theatre, Allentown High School and Muhlenberg College. The Madison Theater is sold, leaving CLT homeless for the time being. The play held the record for longest-running Civic show, until the current annual production of A Christmas Carol broke it in 1996. A Pennsylvania German dialect play, Papa runs for 38 performances, with another 28 in '47. The famous (in Civic circles) Papa Is All opens to unprecedented success, directed by Evelyn Brong Hawk. Its official, CLT is incorporated, though it won't have a permanent home for another 19 years. It will be several decades, though, before A Christmas Carol becomes a beloved annual tradition. The first full CLT season begins, featuring Civic's first full-length production, Daisy Mayme.Ĭivic moves into its first real theatre, the Madison, at Thirteenth and Chew Streets, where the theatre company thrives until 1949.Ī Christmas Carol gets its first Civic Theatre adaptation this year. The Nineteenth Street Theatre, which at that time had nothing to do with Civic Theatre, opens in September of this year the first film shown is Sawdust Paradise starring Esther Ralston. ![]() Civic has been producing theatre continuously ever since. ![]() Shortly thereafter, in the midst of the nationwide “little theatre” movement, the Civic “Little” Theatre is founded.ĬLT's first production, a one-act play titled Suppressed Desires, is presented in June, at Allentown's National Guard Armory. John Kohl and Fred McCready, two Call-Chronicle reporters, discuss the idea of starting up a "little" theatre for Allentown (as tradition would have it) over lunch in a tearoom called The Louisianne. The organization also offers year-round arthouse cinema experiences and programming, opportunities for artists, musicians, storytellers and playwrights in their black box space, THE HUB, while producing first class non-profit theatre by and for the Greater Lehigh Valley area. With the mission to inspire, enlighten and entertain the nonprofit theatre company is proud to be home to Civic Theatre School, the area’s first established training program for young actors. Civic Theatre of Allentown entertains, educates, and enriches lives and provides a venue for artists and audiences to explore their humanity and relevance in the world. ![]()
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