A Haunted Theater
4 min readOct 31, 2021
Powell Symphony Hall was originally a vaudeville theater that opened in 1925. It was called the St. Louis Theater, which makes sense not only because it’s located on Grand Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri. But that also explains the stained-glass image of St. Louis, a medieval French king. Sometimes when I was stressed at work I’d take a break: I’d sneak up the stairs to the locker room containing the stained-glass window, and I’d simply breathe slowly and…