Footlight Club

The Footlight Club is the oldest continuously-running community theater group in the United States of America,[1] having performed every year since 1877. It is a non-profit organization, incorporated as such in 1927.

1892 Logo of The Footlight Club
Eliot Hall, home of The Footlight Club

Based in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, the club currently owns and resides in historic Eliot Hall, which its members purchased in 1889 to provide a home for performances and save the building from demolition.[2]

The Footlight's fundraising projects featured as a part of Boston's social life; there was a dining room in Eliot Hall where benefit dinners were held after theater productions.[3]

References
  1. "Community Theatre History - From the Top - History of community theatre in america". American Association of Community Theatre (AACT). Retrieved 2015-10-13.
  2. Campbell, Paul. "The Footlight Club at 125 Years (2003) - Jamaica Plain Historical Society" (PDF).
  3. Sherman, Marjorie (October 21, 1952). "Society: Many at Opening of 'The Strike' at Colonial". The Boston Globe. p. 34.


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