The Historic Warner Cascade Theatre Museum

Only 58 minutes from Pittsburgh. Let’s considering car pooling.

We will meet for a meal before or after our museum adventure.

NEW CASTLE, Pa. (WKBN) — The Historic Warner Cascade Theatre Museum in New Castle.

The Cascade was the Warner Brothers’ first theater. It opened Feb. 2, 1907. Now, it’s been turned into a museum with two theaters to honor the Warner Brothers legacy and where it all began.

“It’s the only one of its kind, it’s not another Warner Brothers theater, it’s the Warner Brothers theater,” said museum acting curator Bob Vargo.

The Warner brothers began by showing The Great Train Robbery during Youngstown’s summer county fairs. Once winter came, they turned a closed hotel into the Cascade.

Bob Vargo said the museum replicates the original theatre.

“They turned into a theatre, 99 chairs — and we do have one of the original chairs that they borrowed from the funeral home down the street,” Vargo said.