Garden Theatre
19 Arlington Street,
Boston,
MA
19 Arlington Street,
Boston,
MA
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Located on Arlington Street in the 1970s and 1980s. Information on this theatre would be appreciated.
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Gerald A. DeLuca
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This was also called The Back Bay Screening Room. I saw The Rocky Horror Picture Show here before it became a cult hit.
Does anyone have the exact street address of this theatre? I’m trying to find exactly where it was located.
What was the Theatre still exists half way between Newbury
and Boylston on the Public Alley Way in back of Arlington
St. Church. What was the very small auditorium area about 40 feet
down the alley now has boarded
up windows. The front part of the building until recently was some kind of French Coffee house,
now closed, and is now being renovated into something else.
Richard, many thanks. I want to check out that location soon. I can’t for the life of me remember if I ever went there, although I seem to remember an ad for Roman Polanski’s “What” (a.k.a. “Diary of Forbidden Dreams”) which may have played there around 1972.
Gerald, The small lobby area is now being converted to the
Thomas Moser Cabinet/Furniture store. The City Of Boston
Construction permit on the front door is listed as 19 Arlington.
If this is the current Thomas Moser store, then its address is 19 Arlington Street, Boston 02116. I’d guess that the former auditorium is now used as storage, but I don’t know that for sure.
George Mansour discusses this theatre here…
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