Join us for a one-hour tour of Canada’s oldest continuously-operating legitimate theatre, the first “royal” theatre in North America and the home of over four thousand productions since first opening in 1907.
Named a National Historic Site in 1987, the Royal Alexandra Theatre is a masterpiece of beaux-arts architecture that holds distinction as the city’s first steel-framed structure, one of the first air-conditioned buildings in the world, and the continent’s first theatre to be deemed legitimately “fireproof”. Built by Cawthra Mulock (Toronto’s “boy millionaire”), and saved from demolition in 1963 by Ed Mirvish (Toronto’s “Honest Ed”), its stage has been graced by such legendary performers as John Gielgud, Fred Astaire, Edith Piaf, Al Jolson and Paul Robeson, to name just a few.
