Portland Playhouse
231 Maple Street,
Portland,
MI
48875
231 Maple Street,
Portland,
MI
48875
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Related Websites
Portland Civic Players (Official)
Additional Info
Functions: Live Theater, Playhouse
Styles: Art Deco
Previous Names: Sun Theatre
Phone Numbers:
Box Office:
517.647.4041
Manager:
616.558.5863
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Opened by 1929, the former Sun Theatre, located on Maple Street near Academy Street in downtown Portland, Michigan today serves as the Portland Playhouse, a venue for live theater.
Contributed by
Bryan Krefft
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In 1969, Portland produced a book for its centennial. The town’s web site has a page listing the sponsors of the book, including the “Sun Theater, Operated by Kortes Family since 1929.” I’m not sure the building dates from 1929, though. It looks like it would date from the late 1930s or the 1940s. It might have been remodeled, or could have been an entirely new building replacing an earlier Sun Theatre.
The Kortes family’s Sun Theatre Company also operated houses called the Sun in Grand Lodge, Plainwell and Vicksburg, as well as the Otsego Theatre in Otsego, the 131 Drive-In at Plainwell, the Skyway Drive-In at Hubbard Lake, and the Star Theatre at Rockford.
Summer 1971 photo added credit P.A.H.S. scanned by Lanny Reed.