Thespian Hall Theatre
522 Main Street,
Boonville,
MO
65233
522 Main Street,
Boonville,
MO
65233
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Once operated by Fox Midwest Theatres and was once known as the Fox Lyric Theatre.
The Lyric Theatre closed as a first-run movie house on July 27, 1976 with “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest”, and reopened as both a concerts and performing arts house on August 25 of that same year. It was renamed the Thespian Hall Theatre a short time later.
For some reason, both the 1910 and 1917 Sanborn maps spell the name as Stevens, which is wrong. It is however, interesting to note that it was not called the Lyric on the 1917 map. The second floor was used as a lodge hall. Lon Vest Stephens was governor of Missouri 1897-1901, and his brother W. Speed Stephens assisted in the operation of the theater. In late 2018, the stage had to be closed because the rigging ropes were too worn to be used safely. Hopefully it has reopened.