The Footlight Club is the oldest continuously running community theater group in the United States of America,[1] having performed every year since 1877. It is a non-profit organization, incorporated as such in 1927.
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Based in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, the club currently owns and resides in historic Eliot Hall, which its members purchased in 1889 to provide a home for performances and save the building from demolition.[2]
The Footlight's fundraising projects featured as a part of Boston's social life; there was a dining room in Eliot Hall where benefit dinners were held after theater productions.[3]
- ^ "Community Theatre History - From the Top - History of community theatre in america". American Association of Community Theatre (AACT). Retrieved 2015-10-13.
- ^ Campbell, Paul. "The Footlight Club at 125 Years (2003) - Jamaica Plain Historical Society" (PDF).
- ^ Sherman, Marjorie (October 21, 1952). "Society: Many at Opening of 'The Strike' at Colonial". The Boston Globe. p. 34.