page_title: Calumet, Michigan
section_title: Theatre
hierarchical_section_title: Calumet, Michigan / People and culture / Theatre
caption_attribution_description: The Calumet Theatre in Calumet, Upper Peninsula, Michigan. Built in 1900, this historic opera house is open year-round and provides theater, music, opera, and dance. Within the Calumet Downtown Historic District, in the Keweenaw National Historical Park.
context_page_description: Calumet is a village in Calumet Township, Houghton County, in the U.S. state of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, that was once at the center of the mining industry of the Upper Peninsula. Also known as Red Jacket, the village includes the Calumet Downtown Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The village may itself be included within the Calumet Historic District, a larger area which is NRHP-listed and which is a National Historic Landmark District. It is bordered on the north by Calumet Township, on the south by the unincorporated towns of Newtown and Blue Jacket, on the east by Blue Jacket and Calumet Township, and on the west by Yellow Jacket and Calumet Township. The population was 726 at the 2010 census. Calumet's nickname is Copper Town U.S.A.
context_section_description: The Calumet Theatre is a theater and opera house which was constructed in 1900. In 1898, the copper mining industry was booming, and the town had an enormous surplus in its treasury. The town council decided to spend some of the surplus on a theater. The theater hosted a large number of famous actors, musicians, and opera singers. With the closing of the mines, the theater became a movie theater and fell into general disrepair for many years. In 1975, the town began a large project to repair and restore the theater, which is now used for many local and touring productions. The theatre was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 5, 1971, and is also a Michigan State Historic Site. The Theatre is one of the venues in the Keweenaw which hosts The Red Jacket Jamboree, an old-time radio variety show heard on local public radio Stations.
caption: The historic Calumet Theatre, built in 1900
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