Inside the Roseville Theatre
By: Roseville Press Tribune Photography by Philip Wood
Actors who have performed at the Roseville Theatre write their names on the walls of the dressing room along with their production after it runs.
The Roseville Theatre, illuminated at night, has gone from movie theatre, built in the 1920s, to a live theatre.
Actors who have performed at the Roseville Theatre write their names on the walls of the dressing room along with their production after it runs.
Actors who have performed at the Roseville Theatre write their names on the walls of the dressing room along with their production after it runs.
Actors rehearse in the Roseville Theatre for the upcoming production “Into the Woods”. The theatre, built in the 1920s, started as a movie house.
An original water fountain from the 1920s that was used in the Roseville Theatre has been preserved for history.
Actors who have performed at the Roseville Theatre write their names on the walls of the dressing room along with their production after it runs.
For more than eight decades an elegant icon of lights has signaled from the north end of Vernon Street, casting teal and vermillion shades — a constant reminder that existence on the old avenue has been, in recent years, an uncertain tale of survival.
The Roseville Theatre was erected shortly after World War I by a brotherhood of Free Masons who hoped to make a community gathering point and an eminent showroom where the full force of the arts could flourish.
For years the building succeeded in those missions, holding an unusually powerful spot in the imaginations of Roseville’s children. But four generations after one group of Masons created the venue, a new generation of Masons would be called upon to save it — rescuing the theater from a storm of financial and logistical disasters not of their making, which threatened to permanently end its role in the community’s life.
~ Scott Thomas Anderson