Bama Theatre
600 Greensboro Avenue,
Tuscaloosa,
AL
35401
600 Greensboro Avenue,
Tuscaloosa,
AL
35401
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A mixture of Art Moderne, Art Deco, Beaux-Arts and Atmospheric styles, the Bama Theatre opened in 1938 as Tuscaloosa’s first air-conditioned public building.
The interior originally seated about 1,000, including the balcony, with the entire orchestra and balcony sections decorated as a reproduction of the Davanzati Palace of Florence. Twinkling stars and clouds on the night sky ceiling completed the open-air feel of the performance hall.
In 1976, the Bama Theatre was converted to a performing arts center and for several years was home to the Tuscaloosa Symphony, Theatre Tuscaloosa, and Tuscaloosa Children’s Theatre shows, among others.
When Theatre Tuscaloosa built its own home in 1999, the Bama Theatre returned to showing classic, foreign, and art films with its Silver Screen Series.
Contributed by
Mark Hughes Cobb
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This is the second Bama theater in Tuscaloosa. The original Bama became the Druid.
URL from related web site has changed:
http://www.tuscarts.org/bamatheatre.html
Among other things there is a pretty cool virtual tour.
Great-looking theatre!!
From the early 1940s, a Bama employees group photo.
There was a nice video of the marquee of the Bama in the Joan Baez documentary that aired last night on PBS.
Very nice virtual tour photos,nice looking theatre.
Great looking theatre staff,not a tatoo anywhere.
From 1938 a postcard view of the Bama Theatre in Tuscaloosa.