Rose Marine Theater

1440 N. Main Street,
Fort Worth, TX 76164

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Kewpie
Kewpie on April 3, 2012 at 10:08 pm

Throughout the 1940s the Roseland was home to Columbia Wheel burlesque stage shows.

DonLewis
DonLewis on January 13, 2010 at 7:41 pm

From 1937, a rare photograph of the Rose Theater in Fort Worth.

Chuck1231
Chuck1231 on December 21, 2009 at 9:30 pm

Shouldn’t theatre header have an AKA Roseland Theatre also.

artchik
artchik on July 18, 2009 at 8:54 am

Artes de la Rosa, the non-profit that manages the space, has garnered several local and national awards and achievements including:

2003 “Best Of” Award for Best Arts Experience for Kids – Fort Worth Weekly

2004 “Best of the Arts” Award – WRR 101.1

2005â€" 2009 Kennedy Center Capacity Building Organization â€" This annual program gives 30 of the nation’s stand-out culturally specific performing arts organizations an opportunity to work directly with Michael Kaiser, Executive Director of the Kennedy Center and his staff to foster capacity building.

2006 Coming Up Taller Award Winner â€" This national award, given at the White House by the First Lady, is the nation’s highest honor for after-school arts and humanities programming for youths.

2007 “Best Performing Arts Organization” Award – Fort Worth Weekly

2008 U.S. State Department Honor â€" The State Department brought in ten cultural managers from Africa, South America, and the Middle East to study with ten different American arts organizations. We hosted an arts manager from Amman, Jordan for a week at the Rose Marine Theater.

2008 Release of Telly Award Winning documentary “The Rose: A Sense of Place”. Directed by Logan Gilpin and Michael Rodriguez the film depicts the history of the Rose Marine Theater, and aired locally on PBS on May 4, 2009.

2008 Designated An American Masterpiece by the Texas Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

2009 Selected to participate in the On Location Program by ArtsEdge.

DonLewis
DonLewis on July 5, 2009 at 5:57 pm

A 2009 view of the box office and the tile entrance indicating when the Rose Marine Theater was known as the Roseland Theater.

DonLewis
DonLewis on July 5, 2009 at 5:39 pm

A 2009 view of the Rose Marine Theater here and here.

artchik
artchik on May 24, 2009 at 9:03 am

The documentary of the history of the Rose Marine Theater is now on sale at www.asenseofplace.tv This documentary has recently received a Telly Award, and was broadcast locally on PBS.

artchik
artchik on September 18, 2008 at 7:49 pm

The official website of the documentary for the history of the Rose Marine Theater can be found at www.asenseofplace.tv It will debut on Saturday, Sept. 20 at 7:30 p.m. It will then go across the country to various film festivals. There is a community effort to get it shown on our local PBS station as well.

lostmemory
lostmemory on June 7, 2008 at 6:33 pm

Here is another photo of the Rose Marine.

lostmemory
lostmemory on March 26, 2008 at 7:37 am

Before it was renovated, the Rose looked like this.

lostmemory
lostmemory on December 30, 2007 at 6:49 pm

This theater was also known as the Roseland Theater.

lostmemory
lostmemory on June 5, 2007 at 12:55 pm

This is a vintage photo of the Rose Theater.

ahv
ahv on January 17, 2007 at 5:54 am

hello there, this is my first post so… Names Avi and I’m involved in the documentary of the theater and the main premiss is to document the stories of those that visited the theater when it was open. If anyone has any stories that they are willing to share on video about the rose please give me a buzz at my email at or call me at 214-718-8353

DonLewis
DonLewis on July 24, 2006 at 5:00 pm

My photograph of the ROSE sign View link

artchik
artchik on March 14, 2006 at 5:14 am

Latin Arts Association of Fort Worth, the organization that manages the Rose Marine Theater, is in production for a documentary to chronicle this remarkable theater. Click here: http://www.underthetower.com/Documentary.html
to view the trailer.

lostmemory
lostmemory on October 12, 2005 at 6:39 am

This is the website for the Rose Marine Theater.

teecee
teecee on April 27, 2005 at 7:44 am

Don: thanks for posting the website.
here is the URL for the beautiful photo:
View link

KenRoe
KenRoe on April 27, 2005 at 6:23 am

Listed in Film Daily Yearbook’s 1941 and 1943 editions as the Rose Theater, by the 1950 edition of F.D.Y. it is known as the Marine Theater.

DonLewis
DonLewis on April 27, 2005 at 6:02 am

2004 picture of the Rose Marine sign @ www.vanishingmovietheaters.net