Originally Posted By: Tromboniator
The standard American spelling is theater, but it is very common for a building or an organization to use theatre, based, I think, on the notion that it is more arty. The small town that I live in actually has two theaters that use the -re spelling.


Arty isn't the half of it. (Well, actually, it's artsy that isn't the half of if.) Why we didn't also correct the solecistic spelling of words ending in -le is beyond me.