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	Biograph Theater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Biograph Theater is located at 2433-43 North Lincoln Avenue in Chicago, Illinois.
		The Biograph Theater is on the National Registry of Historic Places, and was designated a landmark by the City of Chicago on March 28, 2001.
		The $11 million project for the new theater, to be styled the 'Victory Gardens at the Biograph', is expected to be completed by fall of 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Biograph_Theater (269 words)

	Biograph - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Biograph -- an early-type movie projector invented by Herman Casler, 1896; similar to a Kinetoscope.
		Biograph Theater, the historic Chicago movie theater, best known for the place where John Dillinger was shot and killed in 1934.
		Biograph Studios, was a studio facility and film laboratory complex built in 1912 by the Biograph Company, at 807 E. 175TH ST., in the Bronx, New York.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Biograph (182 words)

	Biograph reborn
		It's also a replica of the same marquee seen in photos of the theater when bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death nearby by FBI agents in 1934.
		The new Victory Gardens Theater at the Biograph will have its grand opening Oct. 14 and 15, but it is offering a free sneak peek in an open house Saturday and Sunday.
		The Biograph's red brick and terra cotta exterior has been restored; a large lobby has been installed, and a state-of-the-art theater has been built where fake ceilings, a maze of walls and a bunch of tiny cinemas had stood.
	www.dailysouthtown.com /southtown/dsliving/041ldcov.htm (692 words)

	THE BIOGRAPH THEATER
		One of the most famous haunted theaters in the history of Chicago is the Biograph Theater, located on North Lincoln Avenue in downtown Chicago.
		On the evening that he was killed, Dillinger left the theater in the company of Anna Sage (the famed "Lady in Red") and with another girlfriend, Polly Hamilton.
		And it is at this theater where the final moments of John Dillinger have left a lasting impression.
	www.prairieghosts.com /dillinger.html (1867 words)

	NWI.com on TownNews
		July 22, 1934, at the Biograph Theater in Chicago, the infamous John Dillinger had no idea the lights were about to go out on his notorious life in a grand finale just outside the movie house.
		When the trio reached the adjacent alley by the theater, Dillinger was suddenly bathed in gunfire from federal agents who had prearranged the ambush with the help of Sage.
		To celebrate a $280,000 renovation and the reopening of the Biograph Theater, closed for two years before being purchased by the Village Theaters chain, the Biograph's new owners hosted an elaborate six-hour event Thursday retracing and recreating the final footsteps of Dillinger.
	nwitimes.com /articles/2002/08/25/export34631.eml (789 words)

	Cinema Treasures \| Biograph Theater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		When the theater closed in late 2000 it was dark for over a year with the exception of the occasional film festival.
		The Biograph Theater was built by Henry Ericsson and Co, general contractors.
		The theater is going to be turned into a 'legitimate' theater in the next few months, significantly changing the interior structure (little remains of the original).
	cinematreasures.org /theater/273 (5989 words)

	Ruth L Ratny presents REEL CHICAGO \| Welcome
		The Biograph is a City of Chicago landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places, so the exterior cannot be altered.
		The Biograph entered history and lore in 1934 as the place where "The Lady in Red" fingered Public Enemy Number 1 John Dillinger, who was ambushed and killed by FBI agents moments after leaving the theater.
		Victory Gardens Theater is the smallest by far of Chicago's three Tony Award winning theater companies (the other two are the Goodman and Steppenwolf theaters), with an annual budget of $2.1 million and 5,000-plus subscribers.
	www.reelchicago.com /archive.cfm?storyID=558 (680 words)

	Playbill News: Tony-Honored Victory Gardens Will Move Mainstage to Biograph Theater, Famous as Dillinger's Last Stand
		Architectural services for Victory Gardens at the Biograph are by Chicago architect Daniel P. Coffey, of Daniel P. Coffey and Associates, the award-winning firm responsible for the restorations of the Chicago, Palace and Oriental theatres downtown.
		Originally built in 1914, the historic Biograph Theater is one of only two remaining examples of early movie theatre design in Chicago, according to VG notes about the space.
		The Biograph Theater was placed on the National Registry of Historic Places and was named a City Landmark in 1999 by the City of Chicago's Commission of Historic Places.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/87456.html (949 words)

	Victory Gardens Theater at the Biograph in Chicago - metromix.com
		Designed by architect Samuel N. Cowen, the theater originally opened in 1914 as was one of at least four movie houses built in Chicago in the 1910s.
		The theater was rehabbed in the 1970's to create a four-screen multiplex, destroying it's original decor.
		The theater is said to be haunted and many have claimed they have seen apparitions and felt cold spots inside the theater.
	metromix.chicagotribune.com /localguide/neighborhoods/lincolnpark/42006,0,6118194.venue (177 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Biograph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		He began his film career as an actor and a scenario writer in 1908 with the Biograph Company.
		Theater's face-lift uncovers history: Amid reconstruction, historians are working to salvage the famed Biograph's original marquee.
		Renovation of Biograph is not quite a total victory.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Biograph (345 words)

	The Hawk Eye Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Those new theaters have stadium seating, which is all the rage, but also is like watching a movie in a basketball arena.
		There was the post theater at Fort Meyers, Va., where every movie was preceded by kids and young men in uniform rising to the national anthem before the newsreel and cartoon.
		John Dillinger, the bank robber and murderer, was ambushed and shot dead by the FBI under the bright lights of the Biograph's marquee in 1934.
	www.thehawkeye.com /COLUMNS/Sweet/2002/c12802.html (927 words)

	Wikinfo \| Movie palace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Movie palace is a synonym for movie theater, but nowadays usually used for the grand art deco cinemas of the 1910s to 1940s, contrasting with modern multiplexes.
		The Regent Theater in New York City, opened in 1913, is usually cited as the first movie palace, and its success in drawing the upper middle class to the movies spurred others to follow suit.
		As their name implies, movie palaces, like other products of the age, were advertised to "make the average citizen feel like royalty."[1] While inscribed with democratic sayings and patriotic imagery, they consciously referenced the grandeur of aristocratic Europe and were often decorated in European fashion.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Movie_palace (491 words)

	DC Theatres (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Don't know much about either theater, but I think the Atlantic was a rock club in the mid-70's, and was a disco at some point.
		The hippie rep theater which lasted for about 30 years until it lost the lease and was taken over by, of course, CVS.
		The theater was a nickleodeon prior to its becoming the Dunbarton.
	martinmc.home.mindspring.com /MiscTheatres/DC.html (1598 words)

	Chicago Free Press THEATER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s 20th year is off to a mixed start with this solid but emotionally flat production of what is arguably its namesake’s greatest work.
		Aficionados of the work might leave the theater a bit disappointed, but those less familiar with it should find Hands’ treatment eminently accessible and satisfying.
		If she were a patient instead of the shrink, she’d probably be diagnosed with a multiple personality disorder.
	www.chicagofreepress.com /freestyle/theater/index.html (1147 words)

	History &Amp; Biography / U.S. History :: Lone Pine Publishing
		Dillinger supposedly was shot to death outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago in 1934 but, as we read in this excerpt from Stone Wallace’s “Dustbowl Desperadoes,” Dillinger may have simply vanished in thin air.
		It wasn’t difficult for Purvis to spot the “Lady in Red” (which was the color her dress appeared under the marquee lights) as two women and a man entered the theater shortly before the 8:00 PM feature.
		While all “official” reports are quite clear that it was indeed John Herbert Dillinger who was killed outside the Biograph Theater, there are those who, upon closer examination of the evidence, have come to the conclusion that the slain man was not Dillinger, but a small-time hoodlum named James Lawrence.
	www.lonepinepublishing.com /cat/1-894864-10-7/gallery/excerpt (1700 words)

	The Biograph Archives
		The Biograph's second anniversary was the party that established the occasion of the theater's birthday as a date to mark on the calendar.
		This 1983 team photo of the Biograph Naturals, a group of semi-wily veterans who finished the season at 18-15 and may have surprised themselves by having a winning record, was taken at Chandler Ballfield by David Stover.
		However, the first time the theater's staff was asked to put together costumes for a midnight monster show, maybe three or four months into the first year's (1972) operation, no one really did all that much.
	biographzombie.blogspot.com (8680 words)

	Chicagoist: Theater Archives
		Theater Season 06-07: The Arena's Filling Up Note: Part 1 of this series is here.
		Victory Gardens at the Biograph Theater’s Open House is at 2433 N Lincoln Ave September 9-10 from noon – 5 p.m.
		Theater on the Lake is at Fullerton Avenue and Lake Shore Drive.
	www.chicagoist.com /archives/theater/index.php (4445 words)

	Windy City Times
		One of Chicago’s most inclusive theater companies and long a friend of the GLBT community, Victory Gardens maintains a 12-member Playwrights Ensemble that is at the core of its artistic mission.
		In addition to the 299-seat mainstage, the Biograph will be reconfigured to include a 128-seat studio theater, spacious lobbies and restrooms, a rehearsal hall, a catering kitchen and four dressing rooms equipped with showers.
		Since the Biograph is on the National Register of Historic Places, and has been landmarked by the City of Chicago, its two-story red brick and terra cotta facade, its old-fashioned marquee and outside ticket booth cannot be altered.
	www.windycitymediagroup.com /gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=5709 (733 words)

	Visions Cinema \| Bistro \| Lounge: Washington DC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Thus was born Visions: Cinema/ Bistro/Lounge a combination theater, coffeehouse and restaurant soon to take over the site of the former Cineplex Odeon Embassy at the corner of Florida and Connecticut avenues NW near Dupont Circle, in the District of Columbia.
		This [meeting] is just a testimony to the enormous feeling that we are being cheated out of seeing movies in a theater movies that are being made in the United States and everywhere else in the world," she says.
		Members of what is called the support "team" include theater consultant Alan Rubin, one of the founders of the Biograph Theater.
	www.visionsdc.com /pressclippings/washtimesfans.shtml (1060 words)

	Metromix. Victory Gardens set to purchase Biograph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		At a news conference Tuesday, Victory Gardens Theater is expected to announce the pending acquisition of the historic Biograph Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Ave., according to Robert Alpaugh, Victory Gardens' director of institutional development.
		The Biograph is expected to cease operations as a movie theater in mid- September of this year.
		According to a city spokesman, Chicago's contribution is not coming from the usual TIF funds (the Biograph is not in a TIF district), but directly from general coffers controlled by the Office of Budget and Management.
	metromix.chicagotribune.com /stage/mmx-0407200254jul20,1,5427605.story (605 words)

	Jazz Age Chicago -- In the News
		The vaudeville and motion-picture theater, located at 2135 North Milwaukee Avenue, opened in 1926 as part of the Lubliner and Trinz theater circuit and is one of the city's last remaining neighborhood movie palaces.
		An option to purchase the property was recently reached between the theater's current owners and a developer who plans to tear down the building and replace it with a condominium complex.
		Friends of the Congress Theater are seeking landmark status for the Congress and would prefer to see the theater sold to a developer who would maintain the theater as a community asset.
	chicago.urban-history.org /links/news.htm (5762 words)

	Chronicle - New York Times
		If all goes as planned today, political figures and movie buffs -- sometimes one and the same -- will turn up at the Biograph Theater at 225 West 57th Street to protest the closing of the theater, one of the few movie houses in Manhattan that showed old films.
		Cineplex Odeon, the theater's Canadian owner, opened the Biograph in 1988 after it had transformed the Regency Theater, a revival house on Broadway at West 67th Street, into a theater for new releases.
		The group has been collecting signatures for a petition, which it plans to present next week to owners of other movie theaters in the hope that one of them might lease the Biograph.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CEFDF123CF935A15753C1A967958260 (205 words)

	Shake and Lake
		Under her direction CST was founded as Shakespeare Repertory Theater in 1986 with no home and a budget of $3,000.
		It was he who encouraged her theater's move to the newly redeveloped Navy Pier.
		"The theater scene in Chicago is blooming, and Chicago Shakespeare has been a huge part of that," says Rick Boynton (S84), who worked as Gaines' casting director and associate artistic director before becoming artistic director of the hugely successful Marriott's Lincolnshire Theater in north suburban Chicago.
	www.northwestern.edu /magazine/northwestern/summer2001/features/shakelake (1938 words)

	Cinema Treasures \| Chicago's Biograph Theater Sold; Movies to Depart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		CHICAGO, IL — The Biograph Theatre, long a Chicago movie-going landmark, will close to moviegoers in September of this year, after being sold to the Tony-award winning Victory Gardens Theatre.
		The theater company plans two theater spaces, one will be a 299-seat main stage and the other will be a more intimate 130-seat studio theater.
		While this may be a good outcome for the Biograph, it represents the loss of yet another neighborhood theater in Chicago Without a car, it becomes evermore difficult to catch a show in the city.
	cinematreasures.org /news/11859_0_1_0_C8 (297 words)

	Jazz Age Chicago--Chicago History in the News
		Among the buildings listed were five Chicago movie theaters that are currently closed or used only sparingly: the Central Park Theater, 3535 West Roosevelt Road; the Gateway Theater, 5216 West Lawrence Avenue; the former Avalon Theater, 1641 East 79th Street; the Patio Theater, 6008 West Irving Park Road; and the Uptown Theater, 4816 North Broadway.
		A theater representative attributed the decision to a sudden increase in rent.
		After several delays, the main theater of the Harold Washington Cultural Center at East 47th Street and South King Drive in the Bronzeville neighborhood debuted.
	chicago.urban-history.org /res/news04.shtml (964 words)

	Unusual Guide to Chicago - Tour, Explore the Northside (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		When Dillinger and the two women arrived at the Biograph about 8:30, more than 20 FBI agents including Purvis, were staked out in doorways and alleys around the theater.
		Purvis, who was standing in the first store doorway south of the theater, lit his cigar after Dillinger passed him, a signal to the other agents that it was indeed Dillinger.
		Hamilton, 26, was with Dillinger on the night he was killed at the Biograph Theater.
	members.aol.com /KSchessler/wizzq.html (4083 words)

	Victory Gardens expanding to the historic Biograph Chicago Sun-Times - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Beginning in the fall of 2005, the Biograph Theater at 2433 N. Lincoln will become the home of Victory Gardens Theater -- one of the oldest of Chicago's Off-Loop companies, and one of the few devoted entirely to the production of new work.
		Owner and longtime theater enthusiast Larry Edwards sold the fabled movie theater for $2 million, and the financing of the overall project will involve an infusion of both state and city funds, as well as corporate, foundation and individual contributions.
		The theater now has more than 5,000 subscribers; the goal is to increase that to 6,000 by the time the new theater opens for its 2005- 06 season.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_200407/ai_n12555684 (589 words)

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