Footlight Club

The Footlight Club is the oldest continuously running community theater group in the United [States of America], having performed every year since 1877. It is a non-profit organization, incorporated as such in 1927.
Based in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, the club currently owns and resides in historic Eliot [Hall (Jamaica Plain, Boston)|Eliot Hall], which its members purchased in 1889 to provide a home for performances and save the building from demolition.
The Footlight's fundraising projects featured as a part of Boston's social life; there was a dining room in Eliot Hall where benefit dinners were held after theater productions.