Ritz Theatre in Sheffield

The Art Deco Ritz Theatre in Sheffield was built in 1927 during the silent-movie era. The Tennessee Valley Art Association, headquartered in Tuscumbia, renovated the theater in 1985 and uses it as a performance space.

A historic theater with an illuminated marquee and vertical neon sign reading “RITZ.”
Photo courtesy of the George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
A historic theater with an illuminated marquee and vertical neon sign reading “RITZ.”