Fox Theatre
520 N. Main Street,
Newton,
KS
67114
520 N. Main Street,
Newton,
KS
67114
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Originally the address given for the Regent Theatre in 1950 was 218-20 Main Street. The street has now been re-numbered.
This classic theatre is currently owned by the city of Newton, which has been considering a plan to remodel the facility into a meeting center for the city’s Chamber of Commerce. The project is expected to cost half a million dollars, but no funding source has been determined yet.
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Paul Salley
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This theater opened in 1914 as the Royal Theater. In 1921 it was re-vamped to provide facilities for vaudeville shows and was re-named Regent Theater and it started showing silent movies from the mid-1920’s. Fox took over the building in 1955, re-named it the Fox Theater and cut away the proscenioum opening to install a Cinemascope screen. It closed in 1999 showing Ron Howard’s film “EDtv”.
Photo of the Fox Theatre.
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Here is a website for the Fox Theater. The address given on their website is: “The Fox is located at 520 N. Main St. Newton, KS”.
Also, according to the Fox website this theater opened as the Royal Theater, then became the Regent Theater and in the 1950s was renamed the Fox Theater.
This is a recent photo of the Fox Theater.
Here is a close-up view of the Fox.
A July 2008 photo can be seen here.
1985 photo of the Fox Theatre.
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This is another 1985 photo.
From 2010 a photo of Fox Theatre in Newton.