Pantages Playhouse

180 Market Avenue East,
Winnipeg, MB R3B 0P7

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m00se1111
m00se1111 on June 19, 2025 at 5:36 pm

The website for this venue is inactive (goes to a GoDaddy landing) According to the wikipedia this looks to be closed..

The Performing Arts Consortium of Winnipeg, Inc. assumed responsibility for the management of the theatre in February 1998.[2]

The City of Winnipeg agreed to sell the theatre to Alex Boersma and Lars Nicholson in 2019 for $530,000,[5] although the sale was held up on account of negotiations for easements to retain a monument to the 1919 Winnipeg general strike on the corner of Main Street and Market Avenue.[6] In July 2020, the theatre was then sold to the Performing Arts Coalition (PAC) for $1, with Boersma’s company retaining a slice of land alongside the theatre for housing development. PAC intends to raise between $10 million and $15 million to restore the historic venue and install a management team to operate it.[7]

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on April 29, 2011 at 1:26 am

Three photos of the Pantages can be seen on this page at the University of Manitoba’s Winnipeg Buildings Index. Photos depicting the 1991 addition to the Pantages, as designed by Stechesen Katz Architects, are available on this page of the same site.

eklassen
eklassen on December 11, 2006 at 5:45 am

The Performing Arts Consortium now manages the theatre for the City of Winnipeg. Their website is www.pantagesplayhouse.com They also have a “History” page with pictures for a few of the other Pantages theatres in North America.

PGlenat
PGlenat on June 6, 2005 at 9:02 am

Had Alexander Pantages been able to build the theatre on the original site no doubt it would have fronted on Main Street.(the present theatre site is one building lot down from the corner.) When the new lobby and studios were built a few years ago, it was to the side of the original building. The remaining land is now a small park with walkways leading from Main Street to the theatre. There is a pylon at the corner of Market and Main with illuminated Pantages name and attractions panels as part of it, so almost 100 years after the fact, Pantages has visibility on Main Street.