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:

    “The “paper tiger” hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.”
    —Eldridge Cleaver (b. 1935)

    “For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.”
    —Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923)