Symphony Space/Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre
250 W. 95th Street,
New York,
NY
10025
250 W. 95th Street,
New York,
NY
10025
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This classic art house opened in 1931 as a 299-seat neighborhood movie house on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
By the 1960’s, the Thalia Theatre had become an intellectual staple for the community (and even appeared in Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall”) . It remained popular until it closed in 1987.
The Thalia opened a lower Manhattan theater (called the Thalia SOHO) to satisfy the need for indie and art house pictures, but it found little success and eventually closed.
Today, Symphony Space, an arts and cultural organization is bringing the Thalia Theatre back to life by incorporating the old theater into its newly redesigned complex.
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Ross Melnick
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I believe I might! I’ll have to go through some boxes over the next week or so. Please remind me if you don’t hear from me by mid-month. Regards…
LeslieW…Hav you had a chance to see if you have one of the old programs from the Thalia Summer festival of double features??
No luck yet. I asked my Mother who also worked the Box Office on occasion and she hasn’t got anything. I’ll try a few more places. I’m anxious to find something also. It would bring back some fond memories. I’ll keep in touch if I find something.
bobob,
The Village Voice carried ads for the Thalia back in the sixties. It may take some google archive searching but this issue, for example, shows “THE TITAN”, “THE IDIOT”, “THE ETERNAL MASK”, “ONE POTATO, TWO POTATO”, “THE NIGHT WATCH”, “BLACK ORPHEUS”, “LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD”, ANIMAL FARM", “CHARLIE CHAPLIN SHORTS”, “THE LEOPARD”, “NIGHT AND FOG”, “THE LAW”, and “THE DOLL” one week in July 1965.
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I remember it well. I saw all of them since they were played every year, however, if I have any Programs(s) at all, I’m not hopeful that it would go back to ‘65. Keep in touch…..
LesW — I have a full program schedule from the Thalia’s summer festival from 1969. It’s good, totally readable. Do you want me to scan it and send it to you? Or photocopy and mail it to you? Let me know.
That would be wonderful! If you can scan it and email it to me I would be most appreciative. My email address is Happy New Year!
Malcolm Leo’s documentary “The Beach Boys: An American Band” (1985) showed here. Janet Maslin reviewed the film in the November 22, 1985 edition of The New York Times.
Isaiah Sheffer, a founder of Symphony Space, has died at the age of 76: nytimes
Two exterior photos from July 2010.