Majestic Midway Theater
5722 W. 63rd Street,
Chicago,
IL
60638
5722 W. 63rd Street,
Chicago,
IL
60638
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This little theater, which originally sat over 200, opened in the early years of the 20th century as a nickelodeon and later became a movie house until closing in 1951. The Clearing was later known as the Mayfair. It is located on 63rd Street near Massasoit Avenue, in the Clearing neighborhood for which it was named, just blocks from Chicago’s Midway Airport. After its movie house days ended, it was used for decades by a labor union as a meeting hall.
In 2004, the building reopened as the Majestic Midway Theater, which featured live theater, poetry readings, stand-up comedy, concerts, and monthly film screenings by local filmmakers.
The theater closed in the fall of 2005 and the building has since been converted into offices for a law firm.
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The Film Daily Yearbook, 1950 edition lists the Mayfair Theater with a seating capacity of 250.
According to the related websites link above, the Majestic Midway Theater is now closed.
? HOUDINI may have played here Feb 20-25 1922?
This theatre is a cross from a pizza place, it is a plane tera cotta red bulding with no orenaments it is eather for sale or rent but it has ben rehabed i beleve as office space like what you might find a Doctor or somone along those lines. But if you look realy good at it you can see whare the marquee was and you can make out whare the doors were one of witch has been bricked over.
This theatre is now a lawyers office .
A Kilgen theater organ opus 3670 size 2/3 style U05 was installed in the Clearing Theater in 1926.
This is from Boxoffice magazine in August 1941:
CHICAGO-Irving Cooper’s Mayfair, 300-seat house on the southwest side, and Schoenstadt’s Pix on the south side have both been closed for the remainder of the summer.