Gateway Playhouse
738 Bay Avenue,
Somers Point,
NJ
08244
738 Bay Avenue,
Somers Point,
NJ
08244
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Functions: Live Theatre
Previous Names: Seaside Theatre, Gateway Theatre
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The Seaside Theatres was a small 380-seat theatre that opened on October 25, 1924 with Mary Carr in “The Spirit of the USA”(aka “The Old Home). It showed movies until the mid-1970’s, when it became a venue for live theatre.
In the spring of 2005 the nonprofit organization that owns the Gateway Theatre decided to put the theatre up for sale. The City of Somers Point has made an offer for the building, hoping to keep condos or retail space from replacing the theatre on its desirable bayfront site. In 2016, purchased by nonprofit Theatre Collaborative of South Jersey for plays, concerts and musicals and other events. In August 2017 reopening, after having been “gutted' down to the cinder block and sand and has been rebuilt from the ground up”.
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Whent they twinned the Ventnor in the late 70’s they did a cheap job. They had no curtains or masking. It was a shame becuase the Ventor has a nice stage and screen with curtains. If I rememebr correctly they used the curtains in place of masking.
Recent article:
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Somers Point’s pink theater saved from developers
July 21, 2005 •• 585 words •• ID: chr23680460
Courier-Post Staff SOMERS POINT Bill Marshall rescued the Gateway Playhouse eight years ago. Now the city has come to Gateway’s rescue, agreeing to buy the theater for $1.1 million rather than let it fall into the hands of developers bent on building more condominiums. The pink theater along Bay Avenue shut its doors after the 1998 death of Paul Aiken, who founded the South Jersey Regional Theatre at the Gateway. Marshall, a local pro golfer by trade, leased the theater ….
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Listed as part of Shriver Theatres Co. in the 1976 International Motion Picture Almanac.
I saw a Cole Porter show at the Gateway about ten years ago. Does anyone have a preservation update since March 2006?
I was in Somers Point last month but I forgot to swing by here. Mr. Memory would be disappointed.
Status should be Closed/Renovating, as the theater is not operating and a nonprofit is working on restoring it. They have raised a good portion of the money they need and have received a post-Hurricane Sandy disaster grant that will go toward HVAC and electrical repair. Philly.com story here.
article in yesterday Sunday Inquirer http://www.philly.com/archive/john_timpane/the-gateway-playhouse-rises-again-in-somers-point-20170809.html reopened, 220 seats, gutted & rebuilt for plays, concerts, musicals, other events, by nonprofit Theatre Collaborative of South Jersey which purchased it last year.
Used by the Atlantic Film Society July 9th, 1982-1984. ad posted.
The Seaside Theatre opened on October 25, 1924. The first film presented was “The Spirit of the USA” starring Mary Carr and Johnnie Walker.