Warwick said going to the 1,500-seat theater was like going to school and getting a crash course in performing: "The old saying is true, it is so true: 'If you can make it at the Apollo ...

Lawrence Phillips, founder and CEO of Green Book Global One of the most famous music halls in the United States, "the Apollo" started as a burlesque theater in 1914. By the 1930s, it transformed ...