About the Tally Ho

19 West Market Street
Leesburg, VA 20176
703.777.1168
Info@MarketStreetProductions.com

The Tally Ho Theatre opened for showings September 21, 1931, with the movie "Sporting Blood" starring Clark Gable. The theater was a recreational outlet for the rural farming communities of Loudoun County in the years before television. The theatre was segregated, with African-American patrons forced to sit in the balcony. In 1965, a group of African-Americans challenged the segregation policy by sitting downstairs in the area reserved for white patrons.

In 2000, the theatre was closed for renovations and re-opened in September 2002 to serve as a movie house and performing arts center. The theatre came under new proprietorship of Market Street Productions in January of 2008 with a focus on live entertainment, first-run feature films, and movie theme nights. (Source: Ashburn Connection, 2007)