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Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres

The Elgin & Winter Garden Theatres are a pair of stacked theatres in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Winter Garden Theatre is seven storeys above the Elgin Theatre.[1] They are the last surviving Edwardian stacked theatres in the world.[2]

Address

189 Yonge Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada

Ontario Heritage Trust

Edwardian stacked theatres

2,149 (Elgin Theatre)
1,410 (Winter Garden Theatre)
3,559 (total)

Plays, opera, music, film

1913

1987–1989 (restoration)

1913–present

Thomas W. Lamb

1982

In popular culture[edit]

A pivotal scene in the 1973 made-for-TV film She Cried Murder takes place in the (then shuttered) Winter Garden.


The cover photos for Rush's 1981 live album Exit...Stage Left were shot at the Winter Garden and the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium.


The Winter Garden is seen in the 1994 film Camilla. The location is also featured in the 2017 movie The Shape of Water and receives an acknowledgement in the closing credits. The music video for "Changes" by the Montreal band Stars is also set there.


Emily St. John Mandel's 2014 novel Station Eleven begins on the stage of the Elgin Theatre.

Toronto

Ed Mirvish Theatre

Toronto

Uptown Theatre

Ottawa

Capitol Cinema

Brantford

The Sanderson Centre for the Performing Arts

Opera Atelier

Ontario Heritage Trust: The Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre

Toronto's Historical Plaques – Loew's Yonge Street and Winter Garden Theatres

Toronto's Historical Plaques -Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres

Heritage Property Detail for 189 Yonge Street

43°39′11″N 79°22′45″W / 43.65306°N 79.37917°W / 43.65306; -79.37917