welcome
Executive Director, Steve Burnette
As a year-round performing arts venue and movie house, this is a website constantly changing, forever in motion as we continue to add exciting offerings
throughout the year.
Enjoy your journey through our site. For our regular patrons, you’ll notice the return of some longtime favorites, now joined by a plethora of new programming.
We’d like to bring your attention to our Two-Ton Food Raising Campaign. We are asking all of our patrons attending any performances this year to consider bringing a can or two of non-perishable food with them that we will then collect, and at the end of each month, we’ll divvy up the loot and deliver those goods to both local food pantries.
Our patrons have shown such generosity in the past with your memberships and other ways of support, so we thank you in advance for what we know will be a successful effort to help those less fortunate in our community.
Thank you for your continuing support of The Murphy Theatre.
Kind Regards,
Steve Burnette
Executive Director
the theatre speaks
The Historic Murphy Theatre: The People, The Entertainment, & The Monument by Jennifer Hollon
“I am the Murphy Theatre. I am a living history, created by your memories and your interest in my being. Through the last one hundred years, I have seen many changes within my walls. I remember the fabulous entertainers, the movies, the audiences, and the applause. I am getting old, historic they say, but my grandeur remains.
Walk through my lobby doors across the marble floors. Notice the cherub plasters along the walls, and look up to my gilded ceilings. Round the corner to my auditorium, where beautiful decorative wooden panels line the walls highlighted by the ornate sconces illuminating my aisles. Feast your eyes on the plaster medallions dotted among the chandeliers on the ceiling beneath the balcony. Behold my burgundy curtains, draping my stage, and gaze up past the golden opera boxes to my magnificent, arched ceiling. I am a gift for the ages from Charlie, but I need you to continue to support and preserve me. Attend my shows, volunteer, become a Murphy member. I am your gift, your history, your theatre."
We appreciate the support of our sponsors, partners, and volunteers for programming, publicity, event, and facilities support.