Regina Theatre (Saskatchewan)

The old town hall, on the northeast corner of Scarth Street and 11th Avenue in Regina, Saskatchewan, was converted to the Bijou Theatre in 1908.

Brown and James Balfour, built the splendid new Regina Theatre which opened February 7, 1910.

With 870 seats, including eight boxes, it was able to accommodate the largest travelling vaudeville shows and featured stage plays and concerts.

In 1922 Freddy Rowan and Paul Bennet starred in a Regina Theatre operatic production of "Merrie England."

[1] The Regina Theatre even boasted Saskatchewan's first dimmer board, which made possible elaborate lighting effects.

The Regina Theatre, 12th Avenue and Hamilton Street, previously on the site of the old Hudson's Bay department store, opened in 1910