Boulton Center for the Performing Arts

Somewhere between being the Regent and Boulton Center it was the Hollyrock. There was a cafe infront and a screen showing movies. Bizarre – a little like the current Studio One in NYC that has stage plays in a setting like that.

Regarding the recent posts…great to hear Bay Shore pulling itself up by its bootstraps again…Funny storys about the Regent….Made my first all day trek to “another town” on my bicycle, riding all the way from East Islip at 12 yrs. to see “Blood On Satan’s Claw”… Took me all day to get there, then realized…
a.) It was an R rated film and as such I would not get in ( I did, no questions asked!) and
b.) It would take me well into the night to get back…Had some explaining to do, but it was an adventure and the movie scared the crap outa me…

I watched that theatre crumble almost in timelapse as I would take a bus to school and pass it every day…First run films….2nd run double bills…Softcore films…Porno chic(Devil in Miss Jones)…hardcore porn…closed….

BTW… the record store you might be thinking about may have been The Cucumber Castle…
We would pass that place every time we drove to Robert Moses, my brother and I would beg my folks to stop and let us go in….never happened….years later older cousins let us in on the fact that it was a head shop….

The Regent Theater! I loved this theater. It was small, but it always seemed to have good movies. I first went there in the early 60’s, and last went there (as the Regent) when it was showing an awful soft core, X-rated film called “Alice in Wonderland” somewhere in the late 70’s, I think. To start off, I saw A LOT of matinees at this theater. Mom or Dad would drop me and my brother off to see some Don Knotts movie, and pick us up after the movie was over. Much later, they started showing a lot of horror movies at night, so as a teenager, I was always going with my friends to see some Hammer film or another cheap horror extravaganza from another studio, then we would go next door to eat some pizza. Does anyone remember the music store that was just east of the Regent in the 60’s? We used to go in there to look at the latest 45’s and LP’s!

In 1964, I saw the Beatles in “A Hard Day’s Night” there, and later, “Yellow Submarine.” When it was the Hollyrock in the 1990’s, I saw a band called RTZ there. It wasn’t until 2005 that I returned to see at the Boulton Center, ironically, The Pete Best Band, led by the guy who was kicked out of the Beatles in 1962. In 2006, I saw another British classic act, Chad & Jeremy.

BTW, parking is in the back.

The Film Daily Yearbook,1930 gives a seating capacity of 770 for the Regent Theatre.

Actually, they do still show movies there.
For example, this coming October 30th, they are showing a double feature, Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” and “Psycho”.

So here’s your chance to see these old classics on the big screen once again. Check their website for oter movies in the “film” section.

The Boulton Center is not a movie theater anymore. Although I am pretty sure they are capable of still showing movies, it is now a Performing Arts and concert venue.
The full name is actually the Boulton Center of the Performing Arts.

I never saw this theatre listed in the newspapers. Another theatre I dont think is on this site is Montauk Movies, I remember it was a single screen that closed in the deadest winter months. I dont see it in the papers anymore, it must have dides.

whats the story on this theater ???

Does the Regent show movies again now, or is it now a performing arts house or something?