There was a community founded in the early 1900s in this area by a preacher who was looking for a better way of life. Today it is a theme park of sorts in Branson called the Shepherd of the Hills with rustic buildings and a dramatic live performance given outdoors every night.
This is the current website: http://thebrickdistrictplayhouse.com/
Their Facebook page shows a finished theatre interior with tables set up like a dinner theatre and people watching a performance.
Google Streetview of July 2018 shows this theatre is now functioning as the River of Life church. The current website for the church lists their address as “At the State Theatre”.
the theatre has announced on its website that it is closing for good and will not reopen. They say that only 2 auditoriums will not support the theatre operation.
That policy stated above of not allowing anyone into the theatre under the age of 17 seems incorrect. Several of the movies listed on the website are family films and Fandango is selling children’s tickets for all the movies. Maybe unescorted minors under 17 at night?
Website: https://assets.amuniversal.com/9ee049101057013780e3005056a9545d
Functions should include film festivals and classic films. Box office phone: 763-789-4992.
The third screen is now open. Total seating is now 265.
^SPAM^
It appears that the Grove is still undergoing renovations but still providing a venue. Website: http://thegrovetheater.org/
Functions should include films: documentaries.
A former quarry makes sense. Years ago, once the aggregate had been removed from the quarries, they became dump sites for garbage and worse.
They now have a website: https://www.thetakeonecinema.com/
There was a community founded in the early 1900s in this area by a preacher who was looking for a better way of life. Today it is a theme park of sorts in Branson called the Shepherd of the Hills with rustic buildings and a dramatic live performance given outdoors every night.
It appears that blackout covers were put on the marquee because of wartime restrictions regarding unnecessary nighttime lights.
It appears that blackout covers were applied to the marquee because of wartime restrictions again unnecessary nighttime lights.
That date for the picture is incorrect. “The Furies” was released in 1950. The automobiles in the picture date from the late 1940s and early 50s.
This is the current website: http://thebrickdistrictplayhouse.com/ Their Facebook page shows a finished theatre interior with tables set up like a dinner theatre and people watching a performance.
Google Streetview of July 2018 shows this theatre is now functioning as the River of Life church. The current website for the church lists their address as “At the State Theatre”.
Thank you David. Just wondering.
Citation for the above?
The name now is Regal Key West. All reserved seating in new seats.
The building at that address is a Quonset hut. Very popular for theatres post-WWII.
Website: http://www.jasper8theatre.com/
The exterior of this theatre showed up on a TV crime documentary on the Investigation Discovery cable channel.
^SPAM^
Was renamed Hollywood Cinemas and currently the website shows it as Westside Cinemas. Showing first-run films. http://westside.bangorfunplex.com/
the theatre has announced on its website that it is closing for good and will not reopen. They say that only 2 auditoriums will not support the theatre operation.
The Toys R Us is closed and will soon be repurposed or demolished.
This theatre’s blade marquee shows up several times in a crime documentary on ID TV.
That policy stated above of not allowing anyone into the theatre under the age of 17 seems incorrect. Several of the movies listed on the website are family films and Fandango is selling children’s tickets for all the movies. Maybe unescorted minors under 17 at night?
Website: https://assets.amuniversal.com/9ee049101057013780e3005056a9545d Functions should include film festivals and classic films. Box office phone: 763-789-4992.