FLATBUSH — Move over, Barclays.
The newly restored Kings Theatre in Flatbush will host Gladys Knight, Sarah McLachlan, Crosby, Stills & Nash and the Moscow Ballet among the inaugural performances set for its 2015 season.
After decades of neglect, the former Loew’s movie theater on Flatbush Avenue south of Tilden Avenue will officially reopen on January 27 with a free performance by the Brooklyn Ballet and Brooklyn Youth Chorus followed by the theater’s first concert, performed by Diana Ross on February 3.
The 3,000-seat performance center, originally built in 1929 as one of five New York-area “Wonder Theatres,” was redeveloped over the past two years with $95 million in funding from the city’s Economic Development Corporation, the mayor’s office, city council and a private redevelopment group that includes the Texas-based ACE Theatrical Group and investors from Goldman Sachs.
The theater has been vacant since 1978, the EDC said, but retains much of its original details including plaster walls, wood paneling, pink marble and a terra-cotta facade.
Tickets for some of the Kings Theatre inaugural season performances are already on sale, including for the Diana Ross concert and for a Disney Live! concert of Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast and Snow White, which starts on April 2.
Other performances include Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, Jamaican dancehall artists Mavado and Capleton and the musical Annie.
The Kings Theatre is located at 1027 Flatbush Ave. All tickets can be purchased at KingsTheatre.com or Ticketmaster.com. Check out the complete 2015 line-up below:
Diana Ross
Feb. 3, 2015 at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets on sale now
Sarah McLachlan
March 14, 2015 at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets on sale Friday, Jan. 16 at 10:00 a.m.
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
March 21, 2015 at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets on sale Saturday, Jan. 17 at 10:00 a.m.
Disney Live! presents Three Classic Fairy Tales
April 2 through 5, 2015
Tickets on sale now
Mavado and Capleton: Dancehall Rising
April 10, 2015 at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets on sale soon
Widespread Panic
April 24 and 25, 2015 at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets on sale Friday, Jan. 30 at 10:00 a.m.
Crosby, Stills & Nash
May 15 and 16, 2015 at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets on sale Friday, Jan. 16 at 10:00 a.m.
Gladys Knight
June 6, 2015 at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets on sale soon
Tales from the Silk Cotton Tree
June 20, 2015 – 7:00 p.m.
Tickets on sale soon
Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker
December 5, 2015 at 7:00 p.m.
Tickets on sale soon
Annie
December 15 through 27, 2015
Tickets on sale soon
