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Auditorium, Adams Theatre - Newark, NJ I’m making a shift on the print side. Everything 12x18 and under is moving in-house. I’ll be printing them myself. This gives me full control over paper, color, and consistency, and keeps the work closer to how I…
There isn’t much of the ornate plaster left, but the bones are still there. The sky ceiling. The whole idea of the place. As far as I can tell, the State Theatre in Stoughton is the last mostly intact atmospheric theater left in Massachusetts.
It's currently being demolished.
The Broadway Theatre – Louisville, Kentucky
The Broadway Theatre in Louisville, Kentucky, is one of the city's historic theaters, originally designed by local architects Joseph & Joseph. It opened in May 1915 at 816 E. Broadway as a vaudeville house and featured classic Beaux-Arts architecture,…
Fox West Theatre – Trinidad, Colorado
The Fox West Theatre opened as the West Theatre on March 16, 1908, with a performance of The Bondman. It was built by Ed West, a Trinidad businessman, and designed by local architects I.H. and W.M. Rapp, who were related to the founders of Rapp & Rapp—the firm…
Eleven years ago today, Kings Theatre reopened.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - photographing the restoration was one of my favorite experiences. Watching a theater come back from the brink beats documenting another loss.
My first post of 2026 is a theater buried in scaffolding.
I photographed it almost ten years ago, which should give you a sense of how deep the After the Final Curtain backlog runs.
This is the Columbia Theatre in Sharon, Pennsylvania, documented while restoration stalled.
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The Columbia Theatre – Sharon, PA
The Columbia Theatre opened on November 29, 1922, with 1,732 seats and a construction cost of $350,000 (about $6 million today). It was built by the Columbia Amusement Company, which also operated theaters in Warren, Erie, and Salamanca. Architect Arland W.…
If you thought I disappeared, I did not. Patreon stayed busy. The 2026 prints are about to ship. The blog still gets monthly posts.
If you want the good stuff, head over there. If you want occasional shouting into the void, congrats, I am back.
Oh, this is the Marathon Opera House.
I photographed this place on a mini road trip with a friend I hadn’t talked to in almost ten years.
I’m pretty sure I cold called the owner while waiting for my flight to Ohio.
Bells Opera House opened in 1895. Nearly 1,000 seats.
Sometimes access is planning. Sometimes it’s timing and dumb luck.
Bell’s Opera House – Hillsboro, Ohio
View of the auditorium from the orchestra level Bell’s Opera House officially opened on November 20, 1895, after just seven months of construction in Hillsboro, Ohio. It was built on South High Street, on a site once known as Rats’ Row, with a nearly 1,000-seat…
I’ve been photographing the Victory Theatre in Holyoke MA for fifteen years. The first shot goes back to my first visit, right after I moved an 1860s prospector out of my frame. The seats are gone and the brickwork has been repaired. Things are finally happening.
The Sampson Theatre – Penn Yan, New York
This was originally posted on After the Final Curtain’s Patreon in February 2025. For expanded early posts, as well as video walkthroughs and other exclusive content, you can become a patron at: View from the side of the balcony. The Sampson Theatre in…
The Demolished White House Theater Where Presidents Watched Movies
Image Courtesy of the Obama Presidential Library When I first photographed historic theaters, I learned that much of their power comes from what we don’t see — the rooms behind the walls, the quiet rituals that make them more than…
Shea’s Theatre – Ashtabula, Ohio
This was originally posted on After the Final Curtain’s Patreon in January 2025. For expanded early posts, as well as video walkthroughs and other exclusive content, you can become a patron at: Shea’s Theater, located in the heart of Downtown Ashtabula, Ohio,…
The Rialto Theatre opened in 1925 with What Happened to Jones and a live orchestra. It closed in 2007 with The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Now it’s back as a church—but like any good Hollywood remake, it’s lost a bit of its soul in the process.
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Rialto Theatre – South Pasadena, California
This was originally posted on After the Final Curtain’s Patreon in January 2025. For expanded early posts, as well as video walkthroughs and other exclusive content, you can become a patron at: The Rialto Theatre in South Pasadena, California, opened on…
I photographed the Highland Park Theatre in Los Angeles a few times. The theater closed a few years ago, but it recently showed up as a filming location for the Once Upon a Time in Los Angeles spin-off.
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Theater Lobby, before it got covered in tags — not the good kind of graffiti, just the lazy kind. USA.
If someone was born when I took the first photo, they’d be in high school by the second. Sadly, the Lafayette mural on the proscenium arch is fading fast. Hopefully it isn’t too late to save it.
Highland Theatre – Los Angeles, California
This was originally posted on After the Final Curtain’s Patreon in December 2024. For expanded early posts, as well as video walkthroughs and other exclusive content, you can become a patron at: The Highland Theatre, located in Highland Park, Los Angeles,…
Another stop from last month’s THS Conclave: the Boston Opera House. Despite the name, it hasn’t hosted an opera since the 1990s.
Today it’s home to the Boston Ballet and Broadway Across America.
The Glove Theatre in Gloversville, NY was almost demolished in the '90s to make room for a parking lot. Seriously.
I photographed it a few years back… and accidentally jammed the fire curtain mid-descent while I was poking around. Oops.
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The Glove Theatre – Gloversville, NY
This was originally posted on After the Final Curtain’s Patreon in December 2024. For expanded early posts, as well as video walkthroughs and other exclusive content, you can become a patron at: The Glove Theatre opened on October 9, 1914, as an 800-seat venue…
I kinda hate that AI book cover.
Still? All I saw was a parking garage.
Providence Performing Arts Center.
Opened in 1928 as Loew’s State Theatre. Designed by Rapp & Rapp—the same architects behind the Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, which is still my favorite.
It was almost demolished in the late '70s until the infamous Buddy Cianci stepped in.
The Colonial Theatre in Boston, MA — not abandoned obviously, but it did come dangerously close to being the classiest dining hall on the East Coast. Emerson College was ready to convert it into one until Stephen Sondheim and a bunch of angry theater people signed a petition and shut that down fast.
On November 10, 1977, the Loew’s Gates Theatre was sold to the Triumphant Church of Jesus Christ Inc. for a symbolic $10—along with the less symbolic responsibility of paying off a $74,000 tax bill. It's still in use as a church (occasionally) to this day.
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Loew’s Gates Theatre – Brooklyn, New York
This was originally posted on After the Final Curtain’s Patreon in February 2025. For expanded early posts, as well as video walkthroughs and other exclusive content, you can become a patron at: The Loew’s Gates Theatre in Brooklyn, NY
When you’ve been photographing the same decaying theater for 15 years, you start looking for ways to keep it interesting. This time I used the disco ball mode on my new light—because nothing says “historic preservation” like mood lighting for ghosts.