The Lyric Theatre is a theatre in Kansas City Missouri.The four and half-story structure designed by Owen Saylor and Payson opened on December 18 1926 as the Ararat Shrine Temple. It cost the Shriners $1 million and had a seating capacity of 3000. It was designed to imitate the Temple of Vesta and was to be part of a complex that also consisted by the Deramus Building and the American Hereford Building on other corners of the intersection at 10th and Central.In 1939 Union Trust of St.
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address
1029 Central Avenue
closing year
2011-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
former name
Ararat Shrine Temple Playhouse Theatre Victoria Theatre Capri Theatre