Empire Theatre

Empire Theatre or Empire Theater may refer to:

In the United Kingdom:

  • Empire Theatre of Varieties, now the Empire, Leicester Square, City of Westminster, London
  • Glasgow Empire Theatre, Glasgow
  • Hackney Empire, in Hackney
  • Liverpool Empire Theatre, Liverpool
  • New Empire Theatre, Southend-on-Sea
  • Sunderland Empire Theatre, Sunderland
  • Thwaites Empire Theatre, Blackburn

In the United States:

  • Empire Theater, now known as the Mainstreet Theater, Kansas City, Missouri
  • Empire Theatre (New York City), a now demolished Broadway theatre

Other:

  • The Empire Theatre, Toowoomba, Australia
  • Empire Theatres, the second-largest movie theatre chain in Canada

Famous quotes containing the words empire and/or theatre:

    “Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi;
    Consider the Empire and Gandhi.”
    —Ogden Nash (1902–1971)

    “Mankind’s common instinct for reality ... has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life’s supreme mystery is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand, no matter what a man’s frailties otherwise may be, if he be willing to risk death, and still more if he suffer it heroically, in the service he has chosen, the fact consecrates him forever.”
    —William James (1842–1910)