Screening Zone
544 Bloomfield Avenue,
Montclair,
NJ
07042
544 Bloomfield Avenue,
Montclair,
NJ
07042
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The Whole Theatre was operating as a live theatre in the 1980’s. It began screening movies in the early-1990’s as The Screening Zone. It screened independent movies. It was closed in 2003 and has been converted into retail use.
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Ken Roe
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A few listings in the performing arts section New York Magazine in 1987 give 544 Bloomfield Avenue in Montclair as the address of a house called the Whole Theatre. A quick Googling reveals that a theater group called the Whole Theatre Company was founded at Montclair in 1971 by Olympia Dukakis and her husband, Louis Zorich. They ran the company until 1990. I haven’t been able to discover if the company occupied this building during its entire run as a live theater group, but it does seem likely that the house only became a movie theater sometime in the 1990s.
One correction. It was a twin. I know this because I cleaned the screens here in the 90’s when it was open.
Poor theater atmosphere, very uncomfortable.
It was near Starbucks.