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Alcazar Theatre (1885) :''See also Alcazar Theatre (1911) and Alcazar Theatre (1976) for two other SF theaters of the same name.'' The Alcazar Theatre was a theatre at 116 O'Farrell Street, between Stockton and Powell, in San Francisco, California. Opened in 1885, the ...

and

Alcazar Theatre (1911) :''See Alcazar Theatre (1885) and Alcazar Theatre (1976) for two other SF theaters of the same name.'' The Alcazar Theatre was a 1,145 seat theatre located at 260 O'Farrell Street, San Francisco, California, between Mason and Powell, built in 191 ...

for two earlier SF theaters.'' The Alcazar Theatre is a 511-seat

theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...

located at 650 Geary Street,

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. The venue is host to many touring productions of

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and

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, as well as

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s, and other theatrical events. Built in 1917 as a Shriner's Temple at a cost of $150,000, the building was designed in Exotic Revival style, looking much like an Islamic temple, by

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T. Patterson Ross. Upon opening, the June 1917 edition of '' Architect and Engineer'' described the building as "an adaptation from Alhambra, a building that stands as the highest mark of Arabian art and civilization." It served as a temple until 1970. After the Alcazar Theatre at 260 O'Farrell Street closed on December 31, 1961, and then demolished, this former temple on Geary Street became a legitimate theatre in 1976 and took on the name Alcazar. The structure was gutted in 1982 after attempts to salvage it failed. It reopened in 1993. Standing just west of

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, in the city's theatre district, the Alcazar has been renovated. The Alcazar Theatre was designated a San Francisco Historical Landmark in 1989.

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