Former names | New Orpheum |
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Location | 601 Smithe Street Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6B 3L4 |
Owner | The City of Vancouver (formerly owned by Famous Players) |
Type | Music venue (former movie palace) |
Capacity | 2,672 |
Construction | |
Opened | November 8, 1927 |
Closed | November 23, 1975 and |
Reopened | April 2, 1977 |
Official name | Orpheum Theatre National Historic Site of Canada |
Designated | 1979 |
The Orpheum is a theatre and music venue in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Along with the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, the Vancouver Playhouse, and the Annex, it is part of the Vancouver Civic Theatres group of live performance venues. It is the permanent home of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. The Orpheum is located on Granville Street near Smithe Street in Vancouver's downtown core. The interior of the theatre was featured prominently in the award-winning 2004 reboot of Battlestar Galactica, where it is dressed to portray a heavenly opera house.