The Dunbar Theatre

The Dunbar Theatre is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, dedicated 1992.

Philadelphia County · dedicated 1992 · SW corner, S Broad St. at Lombard, Philadelphia

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Erected here by Black bankers, this theater was home to the Lafayette Players, popular vaudeville entertainers. Later bought by white interests and renamed the Lincoln, it hosted major Black performers from the 1920s into the 1940s.

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