Tags: Theatre, Venue.
The Alabama Theatre is a movie palace in Birmingham Alabama. It was built in 1927 by Paramount’s Publix Theatre chain as its flagship theater for the southeastern region of the United States. Seating 2500 people at the time it was the largest in the Birmingham Theatre district. The district was once home to a myriad of large theaters that featured vaudeville performing arts nickelodeons and large first-run movie palaces. The Alabama is the only district theater still operating today.