Smithtown Center for the Performing Arts
2 E. Main Street,
Smithtown,
NY
11787
2 E. Main Street,
Smithtown,
NY
11787
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In 1999 my husband & I saw the Matrix here on the great big single screen of this Smithtown theatre! It was marvelous. We actually got to sit in a balcony! I truely miss being able to view movies in this single screen setting.
What would it take to open it again as a theatre?
In the same vein, I miss watching movies at Radio City Music Hall too!
I think this theatre now goes by the name Smithtown Center for the Performing Arts. I used to go often in junior high to see the $2 movies and later saw Grease and West Side Story there when it first reopened. It was nice to see the old place all cleaned up with new seats and everything. Also nice to see the proscenium arch exposed. I guess it had been hidden behind the curtain or movie screen in the past. One thing I hope they’ve fixed, or will fix, are the stained glass windows. They’re not at all elaborate, but that should make them all the easier to repair.
When I was a boy, in the 60s, we went to the matinees here often. I remember seeing Sound of Music and the crowd going wild, kids throwing popcorn and candy wrappers, during the kissing, Matrons running down the aisle yelling. At the time the theater seemed so old and run down that we joked that George Washington saw his first movie there. But it was a lovely old building that was better appreciated once the mall was the only place left to go.
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Is this theater still in use as a playhouse?
This is where I saw “Superman” for the first (and certainly not the last— the last being two weeks ago at the Loews Jersey) time. I think it was the only time I was at this theater, but I haven’t forgotten it, considering that “Superman” is one of my two all-time favorite movies.
The Smithtown was always a nice place to be able to see a movie you really wanted to see, but didn’t get the time to when the movie was in the regular theaters.
this is one of the few nice old theaters left on long island . This was part of the ua 3 way discount houses , the least succesfull of the 3 but respectable grosses . What year did this open this an old building.