Yonge Street

These two theatres are the last remaining Edwardian stacked theatres in the world. They were opened in 1913, showing mainly Vaudeville acts. After the decline of Vaudeville, the upper level Winter Garden closed and the lower level Elgin was converted into a cinema. By the 1970s the Elgin was showing a mixture of B-movies and pornography, but in the 1980s the Ontario Heritage Foundation bought both theatres and restored them to their original glory. They now show mainly Broadway plays and musicals and serve as venues for the Toronto International Film Festival.

This theatre opened as the Pantages Theatre in 1920 hosting films and Vaudeville acts. In the 1970s it was split up into several cinemas to form a modern multiplex. It was restored during the late 1980s and reopened as a theatre in 1989 with Andrew Lloyd Weber's The Phantom of the Opera.