Princeton Theater
301 W. Broadway Street,
Princeton,
IN
47670
301 W. Broadway Street,
Princeton,
IN
47670
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Once known as the Princeton One Dollar Theatre.
The independent Princeton Theaters Company opened the 75x150ft Princeton Theater on July 21, 1948 with Abbott and Costello’s “The Noose Hangs High”. This temporarily replaced the older Princeton Theatre down the road.
The city (presumably) has made a real effort to undo the godawful remodel, and this has been open as a performing arts venue since at least 2016. It is home to the Broadway Players. When I came through, the marquee was advertising ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’, but I’m not sure if that was the film or a stage production.
Note that the interior picture is of the wrong theater. It is obviously not an auditorium built after WWII. Probably belongs with the previous Princeton.
AMC is once again on the warpath towards their older theatres, they also closed the Toler 2 in Benton and the Lory in Highland the same day, July 28,2011.
The theater is being closed by AMC: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-in-longtimetheatercl,0,3711700.story
The theatre is on the market for $400,000 – – here’s the real estate agent’s page with pictures:
http://www.fctuckeremge.com/property/property.asp?PRM_MLSNumber=180971&PRM_MlsName=EvansvilleIN&VAR_AgentCode=98886&VAR_OfficeCode=FCTE06
It is now an AMC operation. The City of Princeton is offering another theater operator $200,000 in incentives to build another theater as the city is fearful that AMC will close this theater in about a year: View link