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Lovett and Sheryl Crow, the Paramount, and its audiences, have seen it all over the past 100 years…here’s to
the next century!
• The Paramount hosts more than 200,000 audience members each year
• Literally millions of patrons have seen a performance within these walls
• The Paramount hosts 250+ performances a year
• Over the years, it is estimated that as many as 10,000 artists have graced the Paramount stage
• The Paramount screens 100+ films each year
• The Paramount provides access to the performing arts to over 20,000 underserved youth each year
• The theatre plays host to multiple film premieres each year and to some of Austin’s most iconic festivals
including SXSW, the Austin Film Festival and many more
• The Paramount launched the Moontower Comedy Festival in 2012 and is one of the largest comedy
festivals in the country

Opening as a vaudeville house in 1915, the Paramount Theatre soon changed with the times to become
Austin’s grand movie palace. The Paramount served film lovers as a first-run theatre for many years before
the decline of downtown Austin. Since then, it has presented numerous world premieres independently and
continues to do so in partnership with the Austin Film Society and festivals like South by Southwest and the Austin
Film Festival. In addition to showcasing new films, the Paramount has also played host to the annual Summer
Classic Film Series, which celebrated a milestone 40th season in 2015. With its historic architecture and devotion
to 35mm and 70mm film exhibition, the Paramount remains the best venue in town for taking in a classic movie
and recapturing the glorious atmosphere of cinema’s golden age. The Paramount marquee has long been the
most coveted spot in town for films both old and new.

State Theatre

Austin, TX
Excerpted from the State Theatre website...

Originally built in 1935 by Interstate Circuit Inc., the State Theater opened as
a 997-seat “state-of-the art” movie house designed in the art deco style by
architect W. Scott Dunne. It was the fourth of the Interstate Circuit’s Austin
Theatres (the Paramount Theatre, Queen Theatre and Capitol Theatre were
the others). In the late 1990s, Live Oak Productions, a local community
theatre company, obtained
money from the city and
private donations to convert Want a digital copy of the 2018
the then closed movie house National Conference Program to
to a live performance space. take with you?
At that time much of the
interior ornamentation was Access it online at
removed along with the first http://online.flipbuilder.com/ocoj/dlpk/
floor, dropping in a stage at
Photo from the CinemaTreasures website or scan the QR code below with
basement level. The upper
balcony was converted to two small classrooms and the lower any QR reader to access the web
balcony became a production booth. Today the State Theatre is version.
part of the Austin Theatre Alliance which also owns and manages
the Paramount Theatre next door. The State is now commonly
called Stateside at the Paramount and presents film as well as live
shows with a seating capacity of 305.

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