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| Former names | Stanley Theatre Stanley Theatre du Maurier Stage |
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| Location | 2750 Granville Street Vancouver, British Columbia V6H 3J3 |
| Owner | Arts Club Theatre Company (formerly owned by Famous Players) |
| Type | Live theatre (former movie palace) |
| Capacity | 650 (formerly 1,216) |
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| Opened | December 15, 1930 |
| Closed | September 21, 1991 |
| Reopened | October 28, 1998 |
The Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage (formerly the Stanley Theatre) is a landmark theatre at 12th Avenue and Granville Street in Vancouver, British Columbia, which serves as the main stage for the Arts Club Theatre Company. The Stanley first opened as a movie theatre in December 1930 and showed movies for over sixty years before falling revenues led to its closure in 1991. After years of threatened commercial redevelopment, the Stanley was renovated as a stage theatre between 1997 and 1998 and subsequently awarded status as a heritage building.
As a stage for the Arts Club, the Stanley has been used to put on classics, Broadway musicals and other large productions, including Swing!, My Fair Lady, Miss Saigon, Disney's Beauty and the Beast and Irving Berlin's White Christmas. The theatre, which went through major fundraising to finance its renovations and mortgage, at one stage lost its sponsor, du Maurier, due to tobacco regulations, but in 2005 received new sponsorship from Industrial Alliance Pacific Life Insurance Company and the theatre's name was changed to the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage.