{"id":423469,"date":"2026-10-09T17:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/423469\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T17:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:12:13","slug":"how-the-tampa-theatre-finally-reopening-this-month-made-it-to-100-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/423469\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Tampa Theatre, finally reopening this month, made it to 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Duncan Auditorium over the years: This photo collage combines a handout photo from inside the Tampa Theatre, which opened in 1926, and an October 2026 Times staff photo taken as crews wrapped up restoration work. The Tampa Theatre will host a Centennial Celebration on October 15, 2026.\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=&quot;http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg&quot; viewBox=&quot;0 0 1600 900&quot;\/%3E\" style=\"transition:opacity 0.5s ease 0.5s;opacity:0\" title=\"The Duncan Auditorium over the years: This photo collage combines a handout photo from inside the Tampa Theatre, which opened in 1926, and an October 2026 Times staff photo taken as crews wrapped up restoration work. The Tampa Theatre will host a Centennial Celebration on October 15, 2026.\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" itemprop=\"image\" width=\"1600\" height=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As the downtown movie palace welcomes guests after a seven-month restoration project, we look back at how it all started.<\/p>\n<p>The Duncan Auditorium over the years: This photo collage combines a handout photo from inside the Tampa Theatre, which opened in 1926, and an October 2026 Times staff photo taken as crews wrapped up restoration work. The Tampa Theatre will host a Centennial Celebration on October 15, 2026. [\u00a0Photo illustration by Gabrielle Calise | Photos by Tampa Theatre and Jeff Woo\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the downtown movie palace welcomes guests after a seven-month restoration project, we look back at how it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[161824,3958,161817,161820,3957,2554,166926,49567,166928,2555,166927,2556,161823,161821,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-423469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-section-arts","tag-section-business","tag-section-culture","tag-section-entertainment","tag-section-florida","tag-section-hillsborough","tag-section-history","tag-section-life-culture","tag-section-movies","tag-section-news","tag-section-stage","tag-section-tampa","tag-section-tbt","tag-section-things-to-do","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}