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Merle Reskin Theatre
The Merle Reskin Theatre is a performing arts venue located in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. Originally named the Blackstone Theatre, it was founded in 1910. The Merle Reskin Theatre is now part of DePaul University, although it is still used for events not affiliated with the university. It serves as the home of The Theatre School at DePaul University.
The building was designed by Marshall and Fox and developed by Tracy C. Drake and John Drake of Drake Hotel fame on the former site of Timothy Blackstone's mansion. The theatre has a rich history of live performances that have traditionally been touring productions of hit and prize-winning shows.
==Building==
The architects who designed the new theatre in 1910 were Benjamin Marshall and Charles Fox of the firm Marshall and Fox, who also designed the adjacent Blackstone Hotel in 1909. As with the hotel, the theatre took its name from Timothy Blackstone, whose mansion had previously occupied the site.〔Berger, Miles L., ''They Built Chicago'', Bonus Books, Inc., 1992, p. 155, ISBN 0-929387-76-7〕 The original address was on Hubbard Court,〔〔"Hotel to Embrace New Theater Site", ''Chicago Daily Tribune'', July 15, 1909.〕 which was later renamed Seventh Street, and renamed once again to East Balbo Drive, the current name. The building is six stories tall and built in a French Renaissance style. Constructed only seven years after the Iroquois Theater Fire, the theater was required to be fireproof and the management claimed the auditorium could be cleared in three minutes.〔 Seating capacity was 1,400 people until 1988, when renovations to reinstate the orchestra pit and to create seating for handicapped persons reduced the seat count to 1,325.
The developers of both the Blackstone Hotel and Blackstone Theatre were Tracy C. Drake and John Drake, better known as developers and proprietors of the Drake Hotel.〔Berger, Miles L., ''They Built Chicago'', Bonus Books, Inc., 1992, p. 152, p. 163, ISBN 0-929387-76-7〕 Their father, John Drake (1826-1895) had been a business partner of Blackstone's.〔 The building of the Blackstone Theatre directly resulted in the shuttering of an older, nearby theatre, the Olympia.〔
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