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Home » Theater Guide » Location » United States » New York » Rensselaer » 3rd Street Theatre
Also known as Uptown Theatre

3rd Street Theatre

Rensselaer, NY
1573 3rd Street
, Rensselaer, NY, United States
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Status: Closed/Renovating
Screens: Single Screen
Style: Unknown
Function: Unknown
Seats: 183
Chain: Unknown
Architect: Unknown
Firm: Unknown
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The 3rd Street Theater was built in the early 1900's and closed down in 1983. Having been abandoned for two decades it is very run down. In 2001 the owners of the Spectrum 8 in Albany donated this theatre to the Spotlight Players Community Theater group for use as a venue for their live performances. Renovations are expected to cost at least $350,000 to get this theatre up to code and convert it from a movie house to a live stage.
Contributed by Roger Katz

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Seating capacity at the time it closed was 183.
posted by Roger Katz on Feb 6, 2004 at 4:41pm
This theatre opened as the UPTOWN, and was so named until a group of enterprising individuals reopened it as the 3rd ST. THEATRE in the late 1970's. The Uptown (which still has "U" symbols on the right and left side of the marquee) originally had no lobby or concession stand. Once you bought your tickets from the outside box office, you walked through one of two sets of doors right into the auditorium. When it reopened as the 3rd St, after a renovation (as it had been closed for years before), it had a small lobby which held a small box office and concession stand. The theatre closed again around 1983 or 1984 when the group found it to be competitive with their Spectrum Theatre (Delaware Theatre), which they opened around 1983.
posted by Joe Masher on Feb 14, 2004 at 4:38am
This was open until at least 1986 when I moved to Albany...Atmospheric to say the least but a neat arty companion to Spectrum...Saw the wild In the Realm of the Senses there...
posted by NickyG on Jul 17, 2007 at 12:00pm
Here are some ad mats for the Uptown:
http://plantweed.blogspot.com/search?q=uptown
posted by Plantweed on Jul 20, 2007 at 8:30pm
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