Architecture entertainment in Miami
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Lyric Theatre
Hallowed names such as Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald walked across the Lyric stage when it was a major stop on the ‘Chitlin’ Circuit’ – the black live-entertainment trail of pre-integration USA. But as years passed both the theater and the neighborhood it served, Overtown, fell into dysfunctional disuse. Then the Black Archives History & Research Center of South Florida kicked in $1.5 million for renovations and overhauled everything. The phoenix reopened its doors in 1999 to appreciative neighbors, civic leaders and entertainers alike. A 2003 expansion feels a little too modern when juxtaposed with the Lyric’s elegant early-20th-century exterior, but it’s shiny, we …
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Tower Theater
This recently renovated 1926 landmark theater has a proud deco facade and a newly done interior, thanks to recent support from the Miami-Dade Community College the space has been brought back to life with frequent Spanish-language films and varied art exhibits in the lobby.
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