1,000 local public high school students from 12 schools who are participating in TDF's Introduction to Theatre Program will be attending a matinee performance of Broadway’s SIX!
Here we see the old Beaux Arts RKO Bushwick Theatre in the late 1990s or early 2000s, when it was already left to sit in abandonment for a few decades. The glory days of the theater were long gone by then the spot originally opened in 1911, as a Percy Williams-owned vaudeville theater. The following year (through 1930) it became part of the B.F. Keith’s chain, complete with a Wurlitzer. It wasn t until 1930 that it became a movie theatre for the RKO-Keiths, according to Cinema Treasures, and it operated as such until closing in 1969.
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The corner of Broadway and Howard Avenue doesn t look all that different today, and the old theater still stands. Since 2004, it has been home to the Brooklyn High School for Law and Technology.