![]() But since 2012, the theater was closed again due to decays inside the building. The theater was used again once for a Wolfgang concert in 2011. On June 23, 2010, Arroyo led the unveiling rites for a marker which recognized the building as a National Cultural Treasure. In 2010, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and Manila mayor Alfredo Lim tried to revive the theater but to no avail. It closed down its doors again in 1996 because of conflicts of ownership between the Manila City Administration and the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS). Its prestige as a cultural center was redeemed but proved to be short-lived. In 1978, a restoration of the theater was initiated by the then Governor of Metro Manila Imelda Marcos which was headed by Otilio, the nephew of Juan Arellano. During the post-war period, it was repurposed as a boxing arena, a motel, gay bar, basketball court and as a home for squatters. The theater's roof and walls were partially destroyed during World War II. He was sent to the United States to be guided by one of the experts in designing theaters, Thomas W. Juan Arellano, one of the first pensionados in architecture, also known for his other major projects such as the Legislative Building and Manila Central Post Office Building, designed the Manila Metropolitan Theater in January 1930. This new theater housed different performances from zarzuelas, dramas to translations of foreign classics. The construction began in 1930 under the supervision of the architecture firm of Pedro Siochi and Company in an 8,239.58 square meter area of the park. ![]() The Philippine Legislature then approved Senator Juan Alegre's proposal to build a theater within the Mehan Garden (now Sining Kayumanggi). It was in 1924, during the American Colonial period that the idea of constructing a theater in Manila came about. This theater stood until the late 1860s or early 1870s, when the old theater was burnt down. ![]() In 1862, the Teatro del PrÃncipe Alfonso XII was built within Plaza Arroceros, near the present-day Metropolitan Theater. Arellano and inaugurated on December 10, 1931. ![]() The Metropolitan Theater ( Filipino: Tanghalang Metropolitan), abbreviated as MET, is a Philippine Art Deco building found near the Mehan Garden located on Padre Burgos Avenue corner Arroceros Street, near the Manila Central Post Office. ![]()
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