Mudflat has finished construction here and has moved into the old theatre. They will have a Grand Opening Celebration on Saturday, September 10, from noon to 4 pm. See http://mudflat.org/general/facility.htm .
The Google Map and associated Street View are wildly wrong. I have no idea how Google came up with a street in Somerville that doesn’t even have the same name as the one the drive-in (in West Roxbury) was actually on.
And of course you can still take trains from here to South Station … but now it’s a streetcar line to Ashmont and then the Red Line subway from there through Fields Corner into Boston.
Susan Lewis of Dover and South Carolina … bought the old Norwood Theatre and is carrying out a multimillion-dollar restoration. With a new beer and wine license almost in hand, Lewis will offer the space for arts and other events when it opens in August 2012. First up, three months before that grand opening, is a bridal shower, she said.
What I reported here back in March 2010 seems to have been just a temporary aberration that lasted a week or so. AMC still advertises the Harvard Square Theatre, and all of its other local cinemas (Loews Boston Common, Braintree, Burlington, Loews Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers, Framingham, and Chestnut Hill) in the Globe’s “g” section.
The Colonial is closing this weekend with no future shows scheduled, due to a disagreement between Emerson College and Broadway in Boston. Emerson would like to bring in another promoter, but that has yet to happen. Read more in this Boston Globe article
Do you happen to remember when you showed the Charlie Chaplin festival? That was my first exposure to Modern Times, Monsieur Verdoux, A King In New York, and The Great Dictator.
Last night, the Somerville Theatre and much of surrounding Davis Square were closed to accommodate a Hollywood film crew. They shot a scene for the forthcoming Mark Wahlberg movie TED, in which Mark attends a May 19, 1999 midnight premiere of STAR WARS EPISODE 1: THE PHANTOM MENACE at the Somerville Theatre.
The marquee and poster boards were changed to reflect this imaginary event. The red SOMERVILLE THEATRE sign over the marquee had its RVILL letters turned off during the shoot. Whether this was done on purpose, I don’t know.
In real life, a Star Wars premiere could never have happened here in 1999, as the Somerville was strictly a second-run house back then.
Just a friendly reminder that I’d like to help out with fixing the wrong locations of various Boston theatres (and that will make the StreetViews much easier to fix, too)
It was in the Globe a few days ago: Citi Performing Arts Center plans to reopen Colonial Theatre
This is great news!
You are writing this in the past tense. Is the theatre no longer open?
From this week’s Somerville Journal: Mudflat Studio opens new home in old East Somerville theater
Mudflat has finished construction here and has moved into the old theatre. They will have a Grand Opening Celebration on Saturday, September 10, from noon to 4 pm. See http://mudflat.org/general/facility.htm .
The posts are not gone. There are 198 comments on this theatre going back to 2004.
This works out well for the Somerville, Brattle, and Coolidge here around Boston, so go for it.
The Google Map and associated Street View are wildly wrong. I have no idea how Google came up with a street in Somerville that doesn’t even have the same name as the one the drive-in (in West Roxbury) was actually on.
Was this theatre at Pico and Centinela, or Pico and Bundy? The Santa Monica – Los Angeles city line is at Centinela.
Borders Books is going entirely out of business, starting a liquidation of all stores as early as this Friday. What will happen to this theatre then?
And of course you can still take trains from here to South Station … but now it’s a streetcar line to Ashmont and then the Red Line subway from there through Fields Corner into Boston.
Two of them – there’s another at Jordan’s in Reading, MA.
Corporate sponsorship has changed, and the theatre is now called ‘Tempur-Pedic IMAX 3D Theatre at Jordan’s Furniture’.
Corporate sponsorship has changed, and the theatre is now called ‘Tempur-Pedic IMAX 3D Theatre at Jordan’s Furniture’.
An article in today’s Boston Globe (maybe only in the Globe South regional edition) says:
Susan Lewis of Dover and South Carolina … bought the old Norwood Theatre and is carrying out a multimillion-dollar restoration. With a new beer and wine license almost in hand, Lewis will offer the space for arts and other events when it opens in August 2012. First up, three months before that grand opening, is a bridal shower, she said.
What I reported here back in March 2010 seems to have been just a temporary aberration that lasted a week or so. AMC still advertises the Harvard Square Theatre, and all of its other local cinemas (Loews Boston Common, Braintree, Burlington, Loews Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers, Framingham, and Chestnut Hill) in the Globe’s “g” section.
The Colonial is closing this weekend with no future shows scheduled, due to a disagreement between Emerson College and Broadway in Boston. Emerson would like to bring in another promoter, but that has yet to happen. Read more in this Boston Globe article
After several years of vacancy, the Cambridge Lock storefront has been replaced by an insurance agency.
Do you happen to remember when you showed the Charlie Chaplin festival? That was my first exposure to Modern Times, Monsieur Verdoux, A King In New York, and The Great Dictator.
This might not happen at all, as Borders has at least temporarily cancelled plans to close this store.
The developer of the Chestnut Hill Shopping Center is talking about closing this theatre and building a new one in the recently-vacated Macy’s space: Chestnut Hill Shopping Center looks to add restaurants, new retail
Many decades ago, the Tremont Temple in downtown Boston operated this way.
Last night, the Somerville Theatre and much of surrounding Davis Square were closed to accommodate a Hollywood film crew. They shot a scene for the forthcoming Mark Wahlberg movie TED, in which Mark attends a May 19, 1999 midnight premiere of STAR WARS EPISODE 1: THE PHANTOM MENACE at the Somerville Theatre.
The marquee and poster boards were changed to reflect this imaginary event. The red SOMERVILLE THEATRE sign over the marquee had its RVILL letters turned off during the shoot. Whether this was done on purpose, I don’t know.
In real life, a Star Wars premiere could never have happened here in 1999, as the Somerville was strictly a second-run house back then.
Just a friendly reminder that I’d like to help out with fixing the wrong locations of various Boston theatres (and that will make the StreetViews much easier to fix, too)
If I want to re-do a Street View according to your guidelines, how do I get back the button for doing this?