There are places you visit and places you experience, and the Alabama Theatre in Birmingham falls so firmly into the second category that the first category barely applies.
Walking through the front door of this building doesn’t feel like entering a theatre.
It feels like crossing a threshold into a different era entirely, one where going out for the evening was considered an event worth dressing for, worth anticipating, worth remembering afterward.
The Alabama Theatre sits on Third Avenue North in downtown Birmingham, and it has been producing this effect on visitors for the better part of a century…