NextAct Cinema
921 Reisterstown Road,
Pikesville,
MD
21208
921 Reisterstown Road,
Pikesville,
MD
21208
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The theatre operated as the Pikes Theatre from 1938 to September 3, 1984. Renamed the Next Act Cinema at Pikes Cinema. It relaunched after being home to restaurants on November 1, 2013 with “Gravity” playing in 3D. It closed at the end of 2016.
The theatre re-emerged as the only Black-owned theatre in the Northeast when Anthony Fykes rebranding it as the NextAct Cinema at the Pikes on March 7, 2019 with an official grand opening ceremony on March 27, 2019.
BlackBusiness.org article about Next Act Cinema and the Official Website link which should be updated. Address shows as 921 Reisterstown Road.
https://www.blackbusiness.org/2019/04/next-act-cinema-family-opens-only-black-owned-movie-theater-baltimore-maryland.html?fbclid=IwAR1Tuhw21TgQnfE_4RZ7ZwassUzYGWqIrWlya2JaErzcHu7e1pRAPYnOgdw
https://www.nextactcinema.com/
The theater had closed in September 2016, but is now open again under new ownership as the Next Act Cinema at the Pikes.
Pikesville, MD: Pikes Theatre Closed [Oct 9, 2016] Pikesville, MD: Pikes Theatre Reopens [Mar 19, 2019]
The Saturday, April 9, 1938 issue of The Film Daily listed the Pikes Theatre in its “Theater Changes” column as a new theater opened on March 25.
The Pikes has been remodeled and REOPENED as a movie theatre, with two 80-seat stadium auditoriums in the front, and a smaller diner in the rear. Reopening was on 11/01/2013; the operator is former JF Theatres booker Ira Miller, who also runs the expanded Rotunda Cinemas and Beltway Movies 6.
Fantastic piece of period architecture. The exterior has been relatively well preserved with some remnants of auditorium (e.g. wall details) still in place. Photos from March 2011: Photo 1, Photo 2
Here is a photo circa 1980s:
http://tinyurl.com/yzs6zjt
Here is a more recent photo:
http://www.agilitynut.com/p/pikes404.jpg
Here is another photo:
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