Arts & Entertainment
Overtown's Historic Lyric Theater Is Miami's Pioneer Playhouse
The Lyric was a first for Miami's very early cultural scene.
February 24, 2022
Whitney Houston was featured in a music video shot in Overtown’s historic Lyric Theater. She knew the history.
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Major Black entertainment celebrities had been appearing there since 1913, in what was described at the time as “possibly the most beautiful and costly playhouse owned by Colored people in all the Southland.”
The Lyric was a first for Miami’s very early cultural scene.
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