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Architect: C. Howard Crane
First Opened: 1st April 1921 (103 years ago)
Closed: 5th March 1968
Reopened: 3rd October 1998
Closed for reconfiguration: 22nd August 2010
Reopened after reconfiguration: 16th September 2011
Website: www.clevelandplayhouse.com 
Telephone: (216) 771 4444
Address: 1407 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115
The Allen Theatre opened in April 1921 as a silent movie theatre with a seating capacity of more than 3,000. Renovated in the mid 1990s, the theatre underwent radical changes in 2010 reducing the seating capacity to 500 and creating the feel of an intimate playhouse.