Off Broadway Theatre
272 South Main Street,
Salt Lake City,
UT
84101
272 South Main Street,
Salt Lake City,
UT
84101
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The Rialto Theatre, located in Salt Lake City’s Clift Building, was built in 1920. Originally called the Kinema Theater, the theater was later renamed the Rialto Theater and had 820 seats.
It was last operated as a cinema under the name of Midtown Trolley Theater, showing discount movies. The Trolley theater chain was taken over by Plitt, which later became Cineplex Odeon.
The theater closed sometime in the 1980’s and is currently used for live entertainment, and is known as the Off Broadway Theatre.
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The Off Broadway Theatre’s website is:
http://www.theobt.com/
Names that this theater operated as:
Kinema
Rialto
Midtown Trolley
Broadway Stage
Off-Broadway
Here are old photos and ads. Click on each photo to enlarge.
The Rialto can be seen in this 1960 photo.
1982 photo of the Midtown Trolly Theatre.
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All the AKA’s need to be added to the header, I had a difficuklt time finding the Midtown Trolley because it isn’t listed as an AKA.
The second photo from the top is a night shot from the 1950s:
http://tinyurl.com/kjbk4h
That photo was taken fro the corner of Broadway and Main St. Great photo, saw many movies at the Rialto, including “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”. They had special rates for the U students.
Interesting Name.
I believe the name came rom its location, it was maybe four doors from Broadway on Main St.