Tarlton Theatre

Built as an auto dealership in the 1920’s. The building was converted into a movie theatre by Standard Theatres Management Corp, which opened November 14, 1941 as the West Theatre. The opening movie was Errol Flynn & Fred MacMurray in “Dive Bomber”. On June 12, 1987 the West Theatre became a brew'n'view style movie theatre called the West Pitcher Show.

Most recently, known as the Historic West Theatre, it showed second-run, independent and foreign features. It also hosted live entertainment and was also used as a dance club after the last movie is screened. The West Theatre was the only art house in all of northeastern Wisconsin. A posting in 2004 on the West’s website announced that the theatre will be closing soon, leaving the Green Bay region, at least for now, without a venue for art house films.

It reopened as the Tarlton Theatre on December 15, 2018. Serving a full dinner menu of classic American fare, a full liquor bar. Featuring movies on screen a few nights a week and live entertainment on stage at weekends. It is open Tuesday-Saturday at 5pm.

Recent comments (view all 7 comments)

teecee on March 4, 2005 at 6:13 am

Homepage:
http://www.westtheater.com/

Note that the street name listed on this website is “West Walnut Street”

moparman on March 21, 2007 at 6:04 am

Has this theatre closed? The website doesn’t exist anymore.

edwilke on May 5, 2007 at 2:49 pm

The theater is closed; it was converted into a night club, Club Five-Six.

Club Five-Six is for sale. This is the web site.

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zipperiffic on October 26, 2013 at 6:57 pm

This is about to become a Funky Monkey computer repair store: http://greenbaywi.gov/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Special-Meeting-Minutes-08-26-13.pdf

Trolleyguy on April 29, 2015 at 8:01 am

The Funky Monkey is now closed.

rivest266 on August 13, 2016 at 9:28 am

This opened on November 14th, 1941. Grand opening ad from the day before in the photo section.

also at http://greenbaypressgazette.newspapers.com/clip/6218839/west_theatre_opening/

rivest266 on August 14, 2016 at 10:00 am

June 12th, 1987 grand opening ad as West Pitcher Show in the photo section.