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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:11:00

Two grieving brothers built it as a memorial; a century of legends - Jolson, Hepburn, Olivier, Sammy Davis Jr. - kept it alive. The Miller Theater, at 250 South Broad Street on Philadelphia's Avenue of the Arts, opened on 26 August 1918 as the Sam S. Shubert Theatre and remains the city's most continuous home for touring Broadway, seating about 1,840. Lee and J.J. Shubert raised the theatre in memory of their brother Sam, killed in a 1905 train wreck - one of two memorial Shubert theatres, twin...