Wareham Hall

Although called the Wareham Hotel, the building next door is actually apartments. Lived there for several years—charming old hotel rooms, built like bunkers. In addition to dinner theater, they do live music at the theater. Also, in addition to the Campus Theatre now closed, there used to be Varsity Theatre—more likely to be the one you’re thinking of that is near the campus and used to be a dollar theater. Moro—the main drag for college drinking in town, dead ends in the Varsity. The Varsity is closed, too. The bookstore next door, Varney’s, bought the theater and turned it into more retail space.

I worked in Manhattan for a few months, a few years ago. I remember going to a “dollar house” to see Howard Stern’s bizarre bio-pic. It was right on the edge of the university campus. Was this the Wareham, or is there another very old theatre in that part of town?