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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 02:04:00

The Shubert brothers' first theatre outside New York sat dark for twenty years in downtown New Orleans before a whitewash brought it back to life. The Civic Theatre at 510 O'Keefe Avenue opened in 1906 as the Shubert Theatre, designed by local architect Sam Stone in the Beaux-Arts style as one of the city's first fireproof theatres, built of masonry and steel when its rivals were still timber. The house is the oldest performance theatre in New Orleans and carries a deep vaudeville-era resume: C...