Broadway Theatre

Address: 75 Queen Street West

 

Date: 1919 - 1965

Also Known As: Globe, Roxy,

History: The Broadway Theatre was located at 75 Queen Street West. […]

The Broadway was originally named the Globe Theatre. With almost five hundred seats, it offered vaudeville and movies. Around the year 1933, it changed its name to the Roxy[…]

In 1937, the name of the theatre was changed to the Broadway, which conjured images of the fashionable theatre district in New York City.

In 1965, the buildings in the block where the Broadway was located were expropriated and demolished.

Taylor, Doug. “Broadway (Globe, Roxy)” Toronto Theatres and the Golden Age of the Silver Screen. History Press, 2014.

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