Address | 1003 Arch Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania U.S. |
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Capacity | 1,200 |
Current use | live music venue |
Opened | 1870 |
Website | |
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Arch Street Opera House | |
Coordinates | 39°57′12.99″N 75°9′24.74″W / 39.9536083°N 75.1568722°W |
Area | < 1-acre (4,000 m2) |
Architect | Edwin Forrest Durang, George W. Plowman |
Architectural style | Late Victorian |
NRHP reference No. | 78002442[1] |
Added to NRHP | June 13, 1978 |
The Trocadero Theatre (opened as the Arch Street Opera House) is a historic theater located in Chinatown in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It offered musical comedies, vaudeville, opera, and burlesque. The Trocadero Theatre was refurbished for use as an art house cinema and fine arts theatre in 1970s, and by the 1990s had become an iconic venue for rock and punk concerts.