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The Morton Theatre is a historic theater located in Downtown Athens Georgia. Founded in 1910 as an African-American built, owned, and operated Vaudeville theatre, it now exists as an Athens-Clarke County Unified Government Leisure Services Department's Arts Division facility that specializes in even
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The most prominent enterprise that has existed within the Morton Building was the Morton Theatre, which opened on the evening of May 18, 1910, with a piano concert by Alice Carter Simmons of Oberlin, Ohio Conservatory, attended by both black and white patrons.
The rehabilitated Morton Theatre, which seats 480, is a unit of the Arts Division of Athens-Clarke County Unified Government's Leisure Services Department, and is supported in part by the Morton Theatre Corporation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Today, the Morton Theatre operates as a rental theatre.
The Morton Theatre Corporation in collaboration with HEART Music presents "SHINE! Celebrating Our Youth Through an Inclusive Concert", an event that sees the best Clarke County School District students performing different genres of music written by Black composers as well as the premiering of a new composition written by the local artist Kishi ...
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Event Calendar — Morton Theatre. 195 West Washington Street, Athens GA, 30601. Phone: 706-613-3770 - Tickets: 706-613-3771 - Fax: 706-613-3773.
The Morton Theatre, located in downtown Athens, Georgia, at 195 West Washington Street, is one of the first vaudeville theatres in the United States uniquely built, owned, and operated by an African-American businessman: Monroe Morton. In 2001, its location was termed Athens' "Hot Corner". [2] The Theatre currently operates as a rental facility ...
