Civic Theater

Status: Closed

Parish: Orleans

Location: New Orleans

From the New Orleans Jazz History Business District/Back o’ Town Walking Tour brochure: 533 Baronne Street: “This is New Orleans oldest theater and opened in 1906 as the Shubert Theater, one of a nationwide chain. Local theater architect, Sam Stone, designed it to meet specifications for legitimate theater. Through the years its name and its playbill have changed several times, offering movies and vaudeville as the Lafayette, burlesque as the Star, and legitimate theater and music as the Poche and the Civic.”