At last, an ad in today’s Boston Sunday Globe movie directory:
STUART STREET PLAYHOUSE
200 Stuart Street 617-426-2190
The Stuart Street Playhouse located at the Radisson Hotel Boston
is the city’s new home for foreign and independent film.
The newly revamped Playhouse features a 435 seat single screen movie
theatre and will begin showing films on Friday October 23rd.
Coming Attractions…
Juliette Binoche in PARIS
THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE
BRIGHTSTAR
Looks like the golf school has closed, as it’s no longer on the hotel’s web site. If it’s not going to become a second screen again, I wonder what is going to happen to that space?
Hi, Michael! Glad to see you here. Please correct any errors I’ve made in this post. I look forward to reading more comments by you and learning more about Off the Wall’s history.
According to this article in yesterday’s Globe, the theatre will reopen on October 9, will be a single screen, and will keep the name ‘Stuart Street Playhouse’.
I hope this succeeds. I don’t know of anyone else trying to open single-screen cinemas these days.
How can there be too many movie theatres? The more, the better. If the market can’t support that many, AMC will soon find out anyway and close one of them.
The Boston Courant breaks the news that Boston is about to get a new movie theater. Or, should I say, new-old movie theater.
The Stuart Street Playhouse vwill reopen in September as a “art and independent movie house under a new ownership group led by Dave and Jim Bramante, the brothers who run the West Newton Cinema.â€
How do you have a college town without a movie theatre? Does the university show so many movies on campus that students don’t want to go elsewhere for them?
Has this theatre reopened yet?
At last, an ad in today’s Boston Sunday Globe movie directory:
STUART STREET PLAYHOUSE
200 Stuart Street 617-426-2190
The Stuart Street Playhouse located at the Radisson Hotel Boston
is the city’s new home for foreign and independent film.
The newly revamped Playhouse features a 435 seat single screen movie
theatre and will begin showing films on Friday October 23rd.
Coming Attractions…
Juliette Binoche in PARIS
THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE
BRIGHTSTAR
Would they be able to book a first-run at the same time as Landmark? Downtown Boston is a different market from Cambridge or Waltham.
I see no ad in today’s Boston Globe, and nothing on the theatre’s website, so I doubt that it actually opened today.
Looks like the golf school has closed, as it’s no longer on the hotel’s web site. If it’s not going to become a second screen again, I wonder what is going to happen to that space?
It’s not “preserved”, it was demolished and then rebuilt.
Hi, Michael! Glad to see you here. Please correct any errors I’ve made in this post. I look forward to reading more comments by you and learning more about Off the Wall’s history.
Sounds a bit like the old Off the Wall Cinema in Cambridge, MA, which showed a wide variety of short-subject and animation programs.
According to this article in yesterday’s Globe, the theatre will reopen on October 9, will be a single screen, and will keep the name ‘Stuart Street Playhouse’.
I hope this succeeds. I don’t know of anyone else trying to open single-screen cinemas these days.
How can there be too many movie theatres? The more, the better. If the market can’t support that many, AMC will soon find out anyway and close one of them.
This theatre replaced Showcase Cinema Dedham on the same site. Some of the comments on that theatre’s page are actually about this new theatre.
The Cinema de Lux Legacy Place page is now up. Dan, would you like to repeat your long ‘review’ comment over there?
Will it be a single screen (like the current Stuart St Playhouse) or a twin (like the original 57)?
OK then, could one of you who has actually visited this theatre create a new page for it? (I’ve never been to either the old or new one.)
Should this theatre’s status be changed back to ‘Open’ or should we have a new entry for it?
Looks like the 57 is about to become a movie theatre again:
View link
The Boston Courant breaks the news that Boston is about to get a new movie theater. Or, should I say, new-old movie theater.
The Stuart Street Playhouse vwill reopen in September as a “art and independent movie house under a new ownership group led by Dave and Jim Bramante, the brothers who run the West Newton Cinema.â€
By 1968 this was already a porn theatre, so sadly it did not serve its original purpose for very long.
Still empty and for lease when I drove by it last week.
Still empty with a ‘For Lease’ sign, when I drove by it this week.
How do you have a college town without a movie theatre? Does the university show so many movies on campus that students don’t want to go elsewhere for them?
(By the way, could someone who is familiar with Showcase at Patriot Place please add that theatre to this site?)
Showcase Cinema de Lux – Legacy Place will open this Friday, August 28. They are running an ad on the front page of Boston.com, pointing to this page.
What is the current status of this property?
What exactly is the developer building here?
Is someone else taking over the theatre, or should we change the status to ‘Closed’ ?