Recently my brother Richard and I were going through some papers at mom's house in Huntsville, and we found this piece torn from a newsp...

The first photo below shows the Homewood Theatre after its renovation in 1941. Below that is an article from the Birmingham News in January...

The Federal Theatre Project was a New Deal program designed to promote new and classical theatrical productions and provide work for playw...

Although born in London in 1810, Joseph M. Field came to America at a very young age and remained here until his death in 1856. In 1827 he ...

On November 2, 1939, an art deco movie house named the Alabama Theatre opened in Houston, Texas. The first film shown was The Man About To...

On October 9 Dianne, myself and a friend of ours attended a matinee performance of George Batson's play "Design for Murder" a...

No, I'm not referring to a showing of  Gone with the Wind. That film first appeared in Birmingham on January 31, 1940, at the Ritz Theat...

Local developer Frank O'Brien  opened his four-story "O'Brien's Opera House" at the corner of 1st Avenue and 19th Stre...

The 1908 coffee table book Views of Birmingham Alabama (title page below) has a number of fascinating photographs of the area from that tim...

This photograph by Oscar V. Hunt is taken from the Birmingham Public Library Digital Collections  . BPL's record for this photograph n...