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Domino's Homes
Domino Theatre gave its first performance in the old Odeon Theatre (now AJ's Hangar) on Princess St. in 1953. For its first decade Domino, like many community theatre groups, moved around from one location to another, including Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute, the LaSalle Hotel ballroom, the Portsmouth Town Hall and the Portsmouth Orange Hall. But in 1964 the company leased its first real home at 8 Princess St. At right is the building as it looked then, with Domino people in the windows of the second and third floors that the theatre occupied. The building now houses the Merchant Macliam pub on the ground floor and the Curry Original restaurant above. The 120-seat theatre at 8 Princess served Domino for about 10 years, but in 1974 the building was sold. The City of Kingston had recently purchased the former Eastern Ontario Army Headquarters at 370 King St. W., which became the J.K. Tett Creativity Complex. Domino leased space there, doing extensive renovations on what had once been a brewery stable, and the new 130-seat theatre, shown below in a photo taken some time around 2000, opened in the fall of 1975. 
Our tenure at 370 King W. was longer - 33 years - but eventually Domino again had to move because its leased premises were sold, this time by the city to Queen's, which has mostly demolished the former theatre and plans to turn it into a new performing arts centre.
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From 2008 to 2011, Domino performed in the Baby Grand Theatre, upstairs at the Grand Theatre, while housing storage, rehearsals and other operations in warehouse space in the west end of the city. Now at last we have a home again, in the Harold Harvey Centre at 52 Church St. (left).