Wayne Theatre
30 Main Street,
Monticello,
KY
42633
30 Main Street,
Monticello,
KY
42633
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The Wayne Theatre was opened on December 17, 1931 with Jackie Cooper in “Skippy” & Billy Bletcher in “A Fowl’s Affair”. It closed as a movie theatre in 1964.
It was completely renovated in 2009, and reopened in November 2009. It operated for several years as a live theatre, but has since closed.
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Pre-restoration theater can be seen at 36.82976,-84.848834
Zooming in on Google street view of the Wayne Theatre it looks like the address is 30 N. Main Street. The theater has no web site, but there is a Facebook page that hasn’t been updated since 2019. Prior to that, there were some years with several events at the house, most of them live performances. The theater is sponsored by the Monticello Banking Company, whose offices occupy about half of the block the theater is on. The bank uses the address 50 N. Main.
Many capsule movie reviews by A. E. Christian, then proprietor of the Wayne Theatre, were published in Motion Picture Herald in the period 1935-1937.
The Wayne Theatre opened its doors on December 17, 1931 with Jackie Cooper in “Skippy” and Billy Bletcher in “A Fowl’s Affair” along with a Fox Movietone Newsreel, featuring installations of RCA Photophone. The Wayne Theatre closed as a movie house in 1964.