Carolina Theatre

We've actually been getting requests to showcase Greensboro's  Carolina Theatre. We promise to provide you with better pictures and more posts about this landmark building, specially the inside which is breathtaking. Here is our first effort!

Opening night at the Carolina Theater was hailed as quite an event and is best described on the theater's own website. The Carolina Theatre, billed as “The Showplace of the Carolinas”, opened on Halloween night in 1927, as a 2,200-seat vaudeville theater.  Mayor Paul Lindley was issued the first ticket and joined opening night crowds in exclaiming over glittering crystal chandeliers, gilded railings, marbled columns and classical statues.  The Carolina was considered to be the finest theater between Washington and Atlanta. The most monumental structure of its type ever built in Greensboro, the Carolina’s terra cotta façade resembles a Greek temple with its embellishments painted in bright blues, reds and golds."

If you live in Greensboro, you owe yourself a night out at the Carolina Theater. Their showing of old movies and the performance schedule, including the annual Community Theater of Greensboro's Wizard of Oz production, provide something of interest for everybody. Please support this Greensboro landmark!

            

Comments

[David Burke]

That is one beautiful building.

[Jacob]

Love this photo. We have an old theater in Ocala and some people tried to make it into a profitable playhouse. Didn't work. Now it sits empty again...

[David T]

Thanks for the comments! The Carolina hosts a season of live theatrical performances, vintage movies and intimate concerts. From their website--

The Carolina Theatre of Greensboro proudly welcomes over 75,000 people downtown annually to enjoy the rich atmosphere and ambiance of another era, while listening to some of the top performers of today. Celebrating its 81st year, the theatre became its own non-profit entity on February 28, 2006, forging ahead with its mission “Presenting Arts, Preserving History.”