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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:33:00

Toronto's centennial gift to itself grew a proper proscenium house. The Bluma Appel Theatre is the larger of the two auditoriums inside the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts at 27 Front Street East, the city's official project marking Canada's 1967 Centennial, which opened on 2 February 1970 to designs by Gordon S. Adamson and Associates. The room began life as simply "The Theatre," an adaptable 863-seat experiment that could shift between thrust, proscenium and caliper stage formats - flexibilit...