A theater that has been an inseparable part of the city since the early 1900s, the Star Theater has transformed through the ages, yet preserving its key essence of being a place that provides entertainment and culture to the city's residents. From opening as a silent movie house in 1911, to becoming a live burlesque theater in the 1940s, to transforming into an adult entertainment theater in the 1960s to 1970s, and briefly housing a few nightclubs in the decades that followed, the Star Theater has always been a place of entertainment. By 2011, the theater again had gone several modifications and changes to be opened as a live performance venue, thus continuing the theater's historic existence.