Buffalo Theater
235 S. Main Street,
Buffalo,
WY
83834
235 S. Main Street,
Buffalo,
WY
83834
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Functions: Movies (First Run)
Previous Names: Scully Theater
Phone Numbers:
Box Office:
307.684.9950
Manager:
307.684.9950
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The Scully Theater was opened in 1993. It operated for several years until closing. It became a church. A group of local citizens reopened it in February 2003. It is unique in that it is a twin which is rare in Wyoming for towns the size of Buffalo.
Currently owned by Buffalo Theater, LLC which is a company owned by several locals.
The building has three other rental units on the ground floor and a Boys and Girls Club in a basement rental unit. The parking lot gets more use by the post office patrons than theater patrons as that is its primary (unofficial) use during the day.
It was closed on March 8, 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It was taken over by independent operators in 2021 and renovations began. It reopened in January 2022. In Spring of 2025 new operators took over.
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Buffalo’s original motion picture house was the Theatorium, which opened in 1909 at 1 North Main Street. It operated during the nickelodeon era when movies remained short attractions with screenings squeezed into standard retail spaces. The Theatorium moved next door before closing as a movie exhibitor in the late 1910s.
Supplanting it was the city’s first modern cinema, Bison Theatre, which opened in 1917 at 7 North Main and lasted until March 8, 1984. Buffalo then went without a local movie house until 1993 when Scully Theater opened at 235 South Main Street.
The business operated for several years before shuttering, after which community residents formed a management group that rebranded and reopened the location as The Buffalo Theater in February 2003. It closed on March 8, 2020 amid the Covid-19 outbreak. π΅π’πππππ π΅π’ππππ‘ππ reported that the twin-screened venue’s final features were πππ€πππ and πΌ ππ‘πππ π΅πππππ£π.
A rebirth got underway when the property was acquired in 2021 by married couple Chris and Kira Wages. Their renovation plans drew national attention in the premiere episode of HGTV’s π»πππ πππ€π πΎππππ π‘πππ‘, a restoration project series co-presented by ππππππ magazine. That segment followed hosts Jasmine Roth and Ty Pennington as they worked with Chris and Kira to ready the cinema for re-opening.
Upon arriving, Ty asked how many movie theaters existed nearby.
ππππ: In our whole county, which is the same size as Rhode Island, just this one.
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ππππ: So we kind of had that as a motive to get a place where kids could hang out and it was safe and fun.
HGTV crews and local contractors gave the venue an extensive aesthetic and functional remodeling, with the aim of preserving its small-town appeal and what Chris called its “Western vibe.” After unveiling the completed upgrades, Jasmine said “It didn’t have any character before, it didn’t tell a story,” to which Kira agreed “It feels a lot warmer.”
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The theater next changed hands in spring of 2025 when the Wages sold it to Barnum project manager Steve Fichter and local merchants Jim and Sara Stevens, who also obtained a liquor license for the business.