A second screening room was constructed, and the company operated the Savoy as a two-screen film house until 1978. The new company renamed the theater 'The Savoy Theatre' and extensively refurbished the interior to reflect the building's original grandeur. The original owners, the Radio-Keith-Orpheum company, sold the theater in 1965 to Sack Theatres. Over the course of the 20th Century, the Opera House changed hands-and names-several times.

Sarah Caldwell and the Opera House's Golden Age Some of Lamb's other notable designs include the Regent Theatre and the Eltinage (now Empire) Theatre in New York City. According to a 1942 obituary printed in the New York Herald Tribune, Lamb, a native Scotsman, had designed over 300 theaters across the world, 48 in Manhattan alone. The building, inspired by French and Italian design, is one of the masterpieces of architect Thomas White Lamb. Keith Memorial Theatre, a tribute organized by his partner, the playwright Edward Franklin Albee. Three years later, on October 29, 1928, the building was inaugurated as the B.F. The City of Boston issued a permit to construct the building on Decemin place of vaudeville impresario Benjamin Franklin Keith's Boston Theatre.

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