Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts
600 Penn Avenue,
Pittsburgh,
PA
15222
600 Penn Avenue,
Pittsburgh,
PA
15222
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Radio City’s Dick Leibert played here for a time. Does anyone know more about his tenure here? Did he play on opening night?
I remember in the Summer of 1963 coming to Pittsburgh from Hagerstown, Maryland with my parents on a business trip (I was 14), and staying at the Manger Hotel downtown. My parents went to see “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” at the Civic Arena (?), while my older sister and I went to the Penn Theatre to see “Cleopatra!"
What a spectacular theatre! Far more spectacular than any theatre in Hagerstown—although we did have the Maryland Theatre (see Cinema Treasures—Hagerstown, Maryland).
I’m so glad the Penn was spared demolition, and is the home of the Pittsburgh Symphony.
Glenn Morrison
Washington, DC
Listed below are the films which played at Loew’s Penn from June 25, 1958 until it closed in September 1964. Research is from microfilms of Variety and The Pittsburgh Press and The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The dates listed are the Wedensday of the film’s opening week as in those days, theaters most often changed their bills on that day.
06/25/58 The Vikings
07/16/58 The Imitation General
07/23/58 Rock-A-Bye Baby
07/30/58 Peter Pan
08/06/58 Kings Go Forth
08/20/58 The Badlanders
08/27/58 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
10/01/58 The Reluctant Debutante
10/08/58 The Big Country
10/29/58 The Defiant Ones
11/19/58 Houseboat
12/10/58 Tunnel of Love
12/17/58 The Buccaneer
12/31/58 tom thumb
01/07/59 Some Came Running
01/21/59 I Want to Live
02/11/59 Anna Lucasta
02/18/59 Separate Tables
03/11/59 The Journey
03/18/59 Lonelyhearts
03/25/59 Some Like it Hot
04/29/59 The Mating Game
05/06/59 Green Mansions
05/13/59 The Naked Maja
05/20/59 Pork Chop Hill
05/27/59 The World, the Flesh, and the Devil
06/03/59 Shake Hands With the Devil
06/10/59 Ask Any Girl
06/17/59 The Mysterians
06/24/59 The Horse Soldiers
07/15/59 A Hole in the Head
08/05/59 North by Northwest
09/09/59 It Started With a Kiss
09/30/59 The Devil’s Disciple
10/07/59 For the First time
10/14/59 The Wonderful Country
10/21/59 Scapegoat
10/28/59 But Not for Me
11/04/59 Odds Against Tomorrow
11/11/59 Career
11/25/59 The Wreck of the Mary Deare
12/09/59 The House of the Seven Hawks
12/16/59 DARK
12/23/59 Solomon and Sheba
01/27/60 The Gazebo
02/03/60 On the Beach
02/24/60 Once More, With Feeling
03/09/60 The Last Voyage
03/16/60 Home From the Hill
04/06/60 Visit to a Small Planet
04/20/60 Please Don’t Eat the Daisies
05/11/60 The Unforgiven
05/25/60 The Fugitive Kind
06/01/60 The Gallant Hours
06/08/60 The Giant of Marathon
06/15/60 Macumba Love
06/22/60 The Apartment
07/20/60 The Rat Race
07/27/60 Bells are Ringing
08/03/60 Elmer Gantry
08/17/60 Psycho
09/28/60 All the Fine Young Cannibals
10/12/60 The Angel Wore Red
10/19/60 Night Fighters
10/26/60 The Magnificent Seven
11/09/60 Where the Hot Wind Blows
11/16/60 Butterfield 8
12/14/60 Inherit the Wind
12/28/60 The Facts of Life
01/04/61 Where the Boys Are
01/18/61 Village of the Damned
01/25/61 Go Naked in the World
02/01/61 The Misfits
03/01/61 Gorgo
03/15/61 The Hoodlum Priest
03/29/61 Cimarron
04/19/61 The Apartment/Elmer Gantry
05/03/61 All in a Night’s Work
05/10/61 Mein Kamph
05/24/61 The Young Savages
05/31/61 Two Loves
06/07/61 The Last Time I Saw Archie
06/21/61 By Love Possessed
07/05/61 Morgan the Pirate
07/12/61 The Naked Edge
07/26/61 The Honeymoon Machine
08/02/61 Goodbye Again
08/09/61 Thief of Baghdad
08/16/61 After Mein Kamph
08/23/61 Ada
09/06/61 The Young Doctors
09/20/61 A Thunder of Drums
09/27/61 Paris Blues
10/11/61 Bridge to the Sun
10/18/61 The Explosive Generation
10/25/61 Town Without Pity
11/01/61 The Mask
11/08/61 Bachelor in Paradise
11/29/61 X-15
12/06/61 Room at the Top/A Streetcar Named Desire
12/13/61 Gigi/Butterfield 8
12/20/61 The Wonders of Aladdin
12/27/61 Pocketful of Miracles
01/10/62 The Happy Thieves
01/17/62 The Innocents
01/24/62 One, Two, Three
02/14/62 Sergeants 3
03/07/62 Light in the Piazza
03/14/62 The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse
03/21/62 Satan Never Sleeps
03/28/62 Sweet Bird of Youth
04/11/62 All Fall Down
04/18/62 The Horizontal Lieutenant
04/25/62 The Children’s Hour
05/02/62 Jessica
05/09/62 Judgement at Nuremberg (pop prices)
05/23/62 Colossus of Rhodes
05/30/62 Follow That Dream
06/06/62 The Cabinet of Caligari
06/13/62 The Vikings/Trapeze
06/20/62 Geronimo
06/27/62 The Road to Hong Kong
07/04/62 Boys' Night Out
07/11/62 Ride the High Country/The Tartars
07/18/62 Reprieve
07/25/62 Birdman of Alcatraz
08/08/62 Lolita
08/29/62 The Miracle Worker
09/12/62 Tarzan Goes to India
09/19/62 Two Weeks in Another Town
09/26/62 Flame in the Streets
10/03/62 I Thank a Fool
10/10/62 The Pigeon That Took Rome
10/24/62 A Very Private Affair
10/31/62 Gigot
11/21/62 Period of Adjustment
11/28/62 Escape from East Berlin
12/05/62 Fancy Pants/The Seven Little Foys
12/12/62 King of Kings (pop prices)
12/19/62 The Swordsmen of Siena
12/26/62 Billy Rose’s Jumbo
01/02/63 The Password is Courage
01/09/63 The Lion
01/23/63 Who’s Got the Action?
01/30/63 STAGE SHOW
02/13/63 A Girl Named Tamiko
03/06/63 Follow the Boys
03/20/63 The Courtship of Eddie’s Father
03/27/63 Papa’s Delicate Condition
04/03/63 STAGE SHOW
04/17/63 Critic’s Choice
04/24/63 Nine Hours to Rama
05/01/63 Madame
05/08/63 The Apartment/The Facts of Life
05/15/63 Father of the Bride/Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
05/22/63 No Exit
05/29/63 55 Days at Peking
06/26/63 Cleopatra
12/25/63 The Sword in the Stone
01/15/64 Move Over, Darling
02/12/64 A Global Affair
02/19/64 The Misadventures of Merlin Jones
03/04/64 West Side Story
03/18/64 Shock Treatment
03/25/64 The Brass Bottle
04/08/64 The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao
04/15/64 Hud/Come Blow Your Horn
04/29/64 South Pacific
05/13/64 The Molesters (5/13 & 5/14 Macbeth)
05/20/64 A Summer Place/Parrish
05/27/64 Lady in a Cage
06/10/64 Empty Canvas
06/17/64 The Patsy
06/24/64 The Carpetbaggers
08/19/64 A Hard Day’s Night
08/26/64 Ensign Pulver
09/02/64 CLOSED PERMANENTLY AS FILM HOUSE