The “Mighty Wurlitzer” organ at the Castro Theatre is not actually a Wurlitzer organ. It hasn’t been one since 2015, when the theater’s genuine Rudolph Wurlitzer Company organ was deemed too ...

On this edition of Throwback Thursday, Lori Kent with the Local Lou Podcast tells us about the Mighty Wurlitzer pipe organ.

And I'm Audie Cornish. The Academy Awards will be handed out this weekend. With the silent film, "The Artist," in the running for Best Picture, we're looking back today to the days of the mighty ...

When you think about Shea’s Performing Arts Center (PAC), you might not associate it with the Mighty Wurlitzer Organ. But that’s about to change, as the theater embarks upon a significant restoration ...

The Zeiterion Performing Arts Center, special to The Herald News NEW BEDFORD — Technology comes and goes, but some things are irreplaceable. A century after it was first installed, the historic ...

The Oriental Theatre's newly-restored 1925 Wurlitzer Pipe Organ. When the Oriental Theatre reopened its doors in 2018, the movie palace was nearly just as it was a century ago, when such opulent ...

Stationed in Music Hall’s ballroom is an instrument few know about: the Wurlitzer organ—a special type of theater organ manufactured by the renowned Cincinnati-based Wurlitzer Company to accompany ...

The Alabama Theatre’s Mighty Wurlitzer pipe organ has left the building. But fans of the beloved instrument needn’t fret. The organ, affectionately known as “Big Bertha,” will be back at the theater ...

On Saturday, Fox Tucson Theatre will resurrect a signature piece of its early entertainment history: the Mighty Wurlitzer. The massive theater organ, equipped with thousands of moving parts, including ...

This article, which first ran in Oct. 25, 2023, has been updated. After waiting five years, Milwaukee filmgoers finally got a chance in November to hear the restored 1925 Wurlitzer three-manual ...

That was a common refrain in the early 1920s when the grand movie palaces across the country began to introduce audiences to a new musical invention: the theater pipe organ. A century later, the same ...