{{Short description|Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts, US}} {{Distinguish|Boston Opera House (1980)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} thumb|right|Keith's Theatre, Tremont Street, Boston, c. 1906 (Library of Congress) '''B.F. Keith's Theatre''' (1894–1928) in Boston, Massachusetts, was a vaudeville playhouse run by B.F. Keith. It sat across from Boston Common in the city's theatre district, with an entrance on Tremont Street and another on Washington Street.<ref>Keith's Theatre, no.547 Washington and no.163 Tremont. Boston Register and Business Directory, 1918, 1921</ref> Personnel included Keith, E.F. Albee and H.E. Gustin.<ref>{{cite book |title=Cahn-Leighton Official Theatrical Guide |location=NY |year=1913}}</ref> Virgilio Tojetti painted some of the interior decorations.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Keith's Tremont Street Entrance |journal=The Opera Glass |volume=4 |issue=10 |date=October 1897 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Virgilio Tojetti (1849-1901) |journal=Public Opinion |volume=30 |date=April 4, 1901 }}</ref> In 1939, the theater was converted to a movie theater named the Normandie.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/224 |author=Boston Athenaeum |title=Theater History: Keith's Theatre (1894-1952), 547 Washington Street |accessdate=2012-02-06 |archive-date=2021-04-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414194055/https://www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/224 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Performances/Screenings== * Fadettes of Boston * Edison Vitascope<ref name="rossell">{{cite journal |author=Deac Rossell |title=A Chronology of Cinema, 1889-1896 |journal= Film History |volume=7 |date=Summer 1995 }}</ref> * Lumière Cinematograph<ref name="rossell" />
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==Further reading== * {{Citation |publisher = printed by Geo. H. Walker & Co. |date = 1894 |location = Boston |title = B.F. Keith's New Theatre. |ol = 7104187M}} * E.T. Adams. "Artistic Engine-Room Interiors." Engineering Magazine, v.10, no.6, March 1896 * Frank Cullen. Vaudeville old & new: an encyclopedia of variety performances in America. NY: Routledge, 2004
==External links== {{commons category|Keith's Theatre (Boston)}} * CinemaTreasures.org. [http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/11112 B. F. Keith's Theatre], 547 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02458 * Detail of 1902 map of Boston showing [https://atlascope.org/#/view:share$mode:glass$center:-71.06337,42.35400$zoom:19.82$base:maptiler-streets$overlay:ark:/76611/al7rtfm98 location of Keith's Theatre], via Boston Public Library's Atlascope Boston tool. * Library of Congress. [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2005676847/ Drawing of Shubert Apollo Theatre] (formerly B.F. Keith's Theatre), Tremont St. opposite the Common, and B.F. Keith's Vaudeville, Washington St., Boston, Massachusetts, 1931.
==Images== <gallery mode=packed heights="140px"> Image:1894 BFKeithTheatre Boston.jpg|Keith's interior, c. 1894 Image:1897 Keiths theatre BostonEveningTranscript December17.png|Advertisement, 1897 Image:KeithsTheatre night BostonMA ca1900s postcard.png|Night view of Keith's, c. 1900s Image:Decoration byVTojetti KeithsTheatre BostonMA postcard ca1900s.png|Postcard of decorations by Virgilio Tojetti, c. 1900s Image:1911_Keiths Theatre_map_Boston_byMiller_BPL_12556.png|Detail of 1911 map of Boston, showing Keith's Image:1917 BFKeiths theatre BostonDailyGlobe Feb21.png|Advertisement for Clark & Bergman; Belle Baker; Adelaide & J.J. Hughes, 1917 </gallery>
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