Golden Gate Theatre

The Golden Gate Theatre is a performance venue located at 1 Taylor Street at the corner of Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco, California, United States. It opened in 1922 as a vaudeville house and later was a major movie theater. In the 1960s it boasted a Cinerama screen, but by the early 1970s it had declined and was showing blaxploitation films. It was restored and reopened as a performing arts venue in 1979.

Golden Gate Theatre
(2017)
Address1 Taylor Street
San Francisco, California
94102
Coordinates37.78216°N 122.41073°W / 37.78216; -122.41073
OwnerBroadwaySF
Capacity2,297
Construction
OpenedMarch 26, 1922
Closed1972
Reopened1979
Website
www.broadwaysf.com

The theatre is part of the Market Street Theatre and Loft District which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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