Lyric Theatre

218 Seneca Street,
Oil City, PA 16301

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matthewthecinemaguy
matthewthecinemaguy on April 19, 2022 at 6:33 am

This theater is currently operating as a performing arts theater.

matthewthecinemaguy
matthewthecinemaguy on April 19, 2022 at 6:32 am

Harris Amusements owned the theater in 1935.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on November 11, 2021 at 4:11 pm

Per kencmcintyre’s comment above, this page is missing the aka’s Princess Theatre and Cameo Theatre. We don’t yet have a page for the first Lyric Theatre, at 106-108 Seneca Street. (I’ve found out that the first Lyric was in operation prior to March, 1916, when it was reported to have reopened following a major renovation.) According to the current Lyric web site, this house opened as the Orpheum in 1906.

ksiemb
ksiemb on October 17, 2015 at 5:43 am

Late 1940’s 12 Cents Admission, Oater’s and Serial’s all day all evening, and you could stay and watch them over and over !

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on March 11, 2009 at 9:32 am

This is the caption to a photo in the Oil City Derrick on 10/10/74:

Ray L. Way and son, Richard L. Way, peer at a remnant of the old Lyric Theater which once occupied the site where a clothing store is now located. The elaborate design which Ray is touching borders the old stage which now serves as a storage and tailoring area in back of the sales section. The store moved into the former Lyric Theater building in 1955. Prior to the Lyric, this site was occupied by the Cameo Theater, before that the Princess Theater and before that the Orpheum Theater. Actually, the Lyric started housing audiences in 1917 at 106-108 Seneca St., moving to 216 Seneca St. in 1927.