The National Theatre (1911-1978) of Boston, Massachusetts, was a 3,500-seat multipurpose auditorium on Tremont Street in the South End.
Performers included Jehovah's Witness founder Joseph F. Rutherford[2] and "big-name entertainers like Duke Ellington and Ray Bolger.
[4] The English High School held graduation exercises in the National.
[7] The space operated "intermittently after World War II for plays and movies.
The Boston Center for the Arts oversaw the property thereafter, when it was subject to numerous plans for redevelopment.