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

A 1911 mansion facade fronts one of Toronto's most rebuilt stages. The CAA Theatre at 651 Yonge Street, just south of Bloor in the heart of downtown, began as a Second Empire private residence, was gutted into a movie house called The Victory in 1919, and spent the next seventy years cycling through names - the Embassy from 1934, then the Astor, the Showcase and the Festival, under which it served as a premier venue of the Toronto International Film Festival in the 1970s. Live theatre arrived in...