Originally built in 1913 as a venue for vaudeville, the Globe Theatre is located within the footprint of the Garland Building, designed by the architecture firm Morgan, Walls and Morgan. The Globe was originally known as the Morosco Theatre, after its owner, impresario Oliver Morosco. During the 1930s it turned into the President Theatre and in the 1940s it became known as the Newsreel Theatre and showed up-to-date news films during WWII. In the 1950s it was renamed the Globe Theatre and during the 1960s and 70s it began showing adult films, and later Spanish-language films. In the 1990s it was converted to a swap meet and in the early 2000s into a nightclub with entry only from the alley. 

For the renovation of this historic theater, our first task was to undo all of the past conversions and insensitive renovations and restore the original entrance from Broadway. We also rehabilitated the 1940s era marquee sign and its original neon design work.  The bulk of our renovation work included restoring the original theater use, bringing the exiting up to current code, creating a completely new conditional use permit to allow concerts and special events, building two new bars inside the main theater space as well as another bar in the basement event space, and adding fully updated systems for sound and lighting.