Keswick Theater

Abington Township, United States

Open to visitors

The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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The Keswick Theatre, located in the Keswick Village section of Glenside, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, is a Tudor Revival movie palace designed by architect Horace Trumbauer. Opened to the public on December 27, 1928, with vaudeville entertainment and a silent film showing, the theater originally seated 1,366 patrons and retained its distinctive exterior essentially unaltered. After a 1955 renovation to accommodate CinemaScope films, the venue operated as a traditional movie house until 1980. Following closure and threatened demolition, a community effort revived it as a live performance space, hosting artists including Fred Waring and the Young Pennsylvanians, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and performers such as Lionel Hampton and Roberta Peters. The theater closed again in 1985 but reopened in 1988 under new private ownership, which established a restoration fund and completed a full restoration by 1994. Now lauded for its acoustically excellent interior, the Keswick was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 and has been owned by AEG Live since 2008.