The 2,800-seat St. George Theatre was built for Staten Island theater operator Solomon Brill and opened on December 4, 1929.

He envisioned the St. George as a show house to rival Manhattan's cinema palaces, and promised to bring top-of-the-line vaudeville to the borough for 75 cents a ticket.

It was the plan of these young entrepreneurs to return the theatre to its roots: live stage shows and concerts integrated with film.

Rosemary”, along with her daughters Luanne Sorrentino and Doreen Cugno, began a not-for-profit organization in 2004 to save the historic theatre.

Either because or in spite of the theatre's ornate interior—decorative gold plasterwork, stained glass and ironwork—the St. George is noted for near-perfect acoustics.

It is possible to stand center stage and hold a room-level conversation with someone in the upper balcony, six stories away without raising one's voice.

Even though generations of Staten Islanders refer to or remember the St. George as a movie palace, the original 2,876 seat structure was planned as part of the Radio-Keith-Orpheum (RKO) vaudeville circuit.

The first movie to be shown at the St. George Theatre was So This Is College which was a 1929 M-G-M production that starred Eddie Nugent, Robert Montgomery and Cliff Edwards.

lang, Chris Daughtry, Garrison Keillor, David Cassidy, Davy Jones, Adam Lambert, Carl Palmer, Cyndi Lauper, Air Supply, The B-52's, Don McLean, Art Garfunkel, Wayne Newton, Tony Orlando, Liza Minnelli, Yes, Kansas, Steve Hackett, Dennis DeYoung, Neil Sedaka, Taylor Hicks, Melissa Etheridge, Bret Michaels, Donny Osmond, Diana Ross, REO Speedwagon, Plain White T’s, and the Jonas Brothers have all performed there.

Top comics who have appeared include Jerry Seinfeld, Kevin James, Rosie O'Donnell, Colin Jost, Michael Che, Colin Quinn, Lily Tomlin, Louis C.K., Jerry Lewis, John Mulaney, Joan Rivers, Chris Rock, John Pinette, Pete Davidson, Jim Belushi, Steve Martin, Bill Cosby,[4] Eric D'Alessandro.