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The Rex Theater Announces Permanent Closure Due To Pandemic

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The Rex Theater has closed its doors for good, the Pittsburgh, PA venue announced via Facebook on Tuesday. Originally opened as a vaudeville theater in 1905, the establishment has hosted live concerts dating back 11 years.

The closure of The Rex Theater comes as more and more venues are forced to shutter permanently. While bands are beginning to get back out on the road via drive-in shows and other socially-distanced events, indoor venues still posses few options in the crawl back to business as usual.

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In a post to the theater’s Facebook page, staff offered sincere thanks to everyone who has seen a show, played a show, and “everyone who has worked in ways big and small and helped us make this crazy dream a reality.” One thing that the post’s author made clear, however, was that this is definitely the end of the road. While organizations like the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) continue to lobby support for the Save Our Stages Act, The Rex Theater has simply run out of time to wait.

While we greatly appreciate all of your support, and we understand that many of you would like to find some way to save The Rex, please trust that we have considered every option and have done everything possible to keep our dream alive for as long as we could.

To close the solemn announcement, the author quoted the Grateful Dead‘s “Brokedown Palace” writing, “Fare you well, fare you well, I love you more than words can tell. Listen to the river sing sweet songs, to rock my soul.”

Scroll down to see the full statement on the closure of The Rex Theater.

Due to the ongoing hardship and uncertain future caused by the Covid pandemic, The Rex Theater will be closing our doors after over a decade of live music and events.

We want to thank everyone who’s come to a show, everyone’s who’s played a show, everyone who has worked in ways big and small and helped us make this crazy dream a reality.

It meant much more than a music venue to us, and we hope it did to you too. Nothing has made us happier than sharing this space and music with all of you over the past eleven years.

The memories that we’ve all made in these four walls will live on. The music that’s happened here will live on. The friendships and relationships made in this room will live on. The beautiful energy that all of you helped us create will live on.

While we greatly appreciate all of your support, and we understand that many of you would like to find some way to save The Rex, please trust that we have considered every option and have done everything possible to keep our dream alive for as long as we could.

We all hope to run into you at a concert, somewhere, somehow, sometime, down the road.
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts,
The Rex Theater Family

“Fare you well, fare you well, I love you more than words can tell. Listen to the river sing sweet songs, to rock my soul” – Brokedown Palace, Grateful Dead

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