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The Avon Cinema is an independent movie theater near Brown University on the East Side of Providence, Rhode Island. The Avon's Art Deco styling dates from its opening in February 1938. [1] [2] The theater primarily screens independent, art house, and foreign films. The theatre has been owned by the same family since 1938.
To capitalize on the emerging "talking pictures" market, the nearly 2,100-seat auditorium was converted into a movie cinema, making it one of eight in downtown Providence. Four years later, the theatre returned to its original name. Attendance declined in the early 1970s, and the cinema shifted to showing adult films. [3]
The United Theater is a contributing property to the Westerly Downtown Historic District.It was originally a vaudeville venue opened on January 18, 1926. [2] [3] The opening night featured the Seven Rainbow Girls, Eddie Cooke and the Shaw Sisters, Bernard and Ferris, Exposition Jubilee, and the Jean Jackson Troupe. [4]
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Apple Cinemas has signed a lease to operate the former Showcase Cinemas theater at the City Center in White Plains.
It has since reopened as Apple Cinemas. Before construction began, 118,000 tons of contaminated soil and 63 vacant and deteriorated buildings were removed from the site. The construction of Brass Mill Center essentially replaced the older Naugatuck Valley Mall, built in 1969 and located on the city's northeast suburban side.
Island Cinemas 10, Aquidneck Island’s only multi-screen movie theater, will close in January following the sale of its building. “We have been a part of this community for 30 years, as Holiday ...
Over the years, ECAS Theater grew to produce and stage original and classic works of theater, provide theatrical instruction to youth and adults, and bring theater companies from across the US and Latin America to Rhode Island. [2] ECAS Theater operates a 90-seat black box theater and community arts space located at 679 Valley Street in Providence.