Showplace Performance Centre
292 George Street N,
Peterborough,
ON
K9J 3H2
292 George Street N,
Peterborough,
ON
K9J 3H2
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Previously operated by: Odeon Theatres (Canada) Ltd., Rank Organisation
Architects: Jay I. English, Leslie H. Kemp
Functions: Cultural Center, Performing Arts
Styles: Streamline Moderne
Previous Names: Odeon Theatre, Trent Cinemas
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Opened on December 16, 1947 by the UK based J. Arthur Rank Organisation as the 754-seat Odeon Theatre. The opening film was “Green For Danger” starring Alistair Sim. It was twinned in 1979 and in 1986 it was taken over by Trent Theatres and renamed Trent Cinemas. In 1995 the still operating cinema was purchased by Showplace and the Trent Cinemas was closed on August 10, 1995.
Showplace employed architectural firm Lett & Smith to convert the cinema into a performing arts space. The interior was gutted and it reopened on October 5, 1996 as the Showplace Performance Centre, an arts & cultural venue.
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Website: https://www.showplace.org/ Box office phone: 705-742-7469
Peterborough’s 754-seat Odeon Theatre launched on December 16, 1947 with Trevor Howard in “Green For Danger” and a special newsreel on the Royal Wedding of Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and Prince Philip (Duke of Edinburgh) which happened the previous month. Despite opening with a British film by Eagle Lion, the Odeon also shows American films as well at the time.
The Odeon would later become a first-run American house screening American films, competing against the neighboring Famous Players-operated Paramount Theatre, despite the Odeon Theatre later twinning in 1979. They both continued to compete following Canadian Odeon’s opening of the Cineplex 6 (or the Lansdowne Place 6) in 1980. Cineplex Odeon briefly operated the Odeon but fell into the hands of Ontario Cinemas, a separate branch of the Cineplex-Odeon chain in 1986.
That same year, it was renamed the Trent Cinemas, and continue operating until closing in 1995.
Once briefly operated by Cineplex Odeon.
The actual closing date for the Trent Cinemas is August 10, 1995. The same operators would later open a 7-plex down the street two years later.