the McPherson Playhouse in Victoria, BC was originally opened as a Pantages Theatre in 1914
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Pantages Playhouse Theatre in the historic Exchange District of Winnipeg, Manitoba; first opened as a vaudeville house in 1913, and continues to operate as a leading venue for performing arts in Manitoba
All the interiors were created by A. B. Heinsbergen (Pantages Theatre chain).
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In 1989, after an internal struggle within the company, Cineplex executives Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb negotiated to buy the division, which then included the Pantages Theatre, Toronto, and rights to Andrew Lloyd Webber's popular musical The Phantom of the Opera.
A production directed by Jerry Zaks with choreography by Danny Daniels ran at the Pantages Theatre, Los Angeles, California, in September 1985 as part of a tour.
The name came from The Phantom of the Opera, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that played at the Canon Theatre (then Pantages Theatre) in Toronto for nine years.