Smithtown Center for the Performing Arts
2 E. Main Street,
Smithtown,
NY
11787
2 E. Main Street,
Smithtown,
NY
11787
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UA operated this for many years as a discount house usually day and dating with Lindenhurst and Northport. There was a period in the 1980’s when they booked first run here for awhile. (it might have been when the Smith Haven Mall was being quaded). “Hannah and Her Sisters” was one of the films that opened first run here, and did very well. In 2001 UA closed the theatre and a year later it was renovated and opened as a live playhouse.
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Saw “Aliens” here……
This was my first movie-theatre at the relatively late age of 5 (1958, Merry Andrew with Danny Kaye). Packed on a Sunday afternoon – was fascinated most by it being in color (since TV was black and white at that time).
The Smithtown first opened in November, 1932, according to a report in Box Office Magazine at the time. The theatre was operated by the independent Prudential circuit, and brought its cinema total to 39, all of them in suburbs within commuting distance of its Manhattan headquarters. Prudential later became part of Metropolitan Playhouses, a holding company that also owned the Skouras and Randforce chains. Those individual circuits were eventually combined, with their names retired in favor of a blanket United Artists Theatre Circuit.
I saw Dumb and Dumber here. My ticket, soda and popcorn came to like $7.
This is a photo of the Smithtown Theater from 2004.
An earlier comment mention Radio City Music Hall. What a coicidence, the designer was the same for Smithtown – a garden courtyard setting vs Art Deco. Amazing. When I was here for a live show there was a handout on the theatre. It mention the Old Town theatre which was also in town and which this, essentially replaced. I don’t see a posting for this.
That’s a great photo Lost, thanks.
I remember when this theater used to play “just out of the theater” movies, and you could see them there cheap.
I stood on that marquee many times…
also saw the lousy “Jaws 3 – D” here
I saw Wyatt Earp here shortly after that picture was out of first run theaters. They actually showed it with an intermission and I recall the theater being quite packed for it.