Larchmont Playhouse
1975 Palmer Avenue,
Larchmont,
NY
10538
1975 Palmer Avenue,
Larchmont,
NY
10538
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Additional Info
Previously operated by: Associated Prudential Theaters Inc., Clearview Cinemas, United Artists Theater Circuit Inc.
Functions: Movies (First Run)
Previous Names: Larchmont Theater
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The Larchmont Playhouse opened on August 3, 1933. It is currently a three screen theater. Previously operated by the Prudential Circuit in the 1940’s, followed by United Artists and by Clearview Cinemas from September 1997. In June 2013, it was taken over by Bow-Tie Cinemas, who took most of the Clearview locations. Bow Tie Cinemas closed the theater when their lease ended on September 25, 2016. A not-for-profit group to acquired the theater and planned to renovate and reopen by September 2020.
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Let’s hope that the new operator Bow Tie Cinemas does not close this theatre and propose to knock it down and build condos like they did in the adjacent community where they closed the Mamaroneck Playhouse last week. This theatre is a gem even though it has been turned into a triplex yrars ago.
I do not think they will close this theatre. They just converted to digital about 4 months ago. The Mamaroneck Playhouse. Was 35MM right up to the last day of operation. Bow Tie said it would have been too costly to upgrade and renovate the theatre. Not a very good company when they say. “Movie going like it, used to be, but only better”
Great news today about a developer who is purchasing the theater and plans to reopen it:
http://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/2017/09/08/larchmont-playhouse-bought/645909001/
They should renovate it with recliners and reserved seating.
The latest news from the local paper of January 28 2020 that it should be renovated and reopened by September. https://larchmontloop.com/historic-larchmont-and-mamaroneck-playhouses-should-open-in-2020/
Please update, theatre opened August 3, 1933, Clearveiw Cinemas took control of the theatre in September 1997 from United Artists Theatre Circuit and became a triplex on November 20, 1998.
Article in June 2021 says the theatre will open no time soon.
Still nothing going on with this Theatre. Doesn’t look like the outfit that bought it is going to do anything at this point. They were supposed to do a mix of art house movies and regular films and other special screenings. They probably see the state of the movie business today and decided not to invest a hefty sum to redo the theater. Very sad anyway it would’ve been good to have the theater open great for the businesses.
As of 2025, the Larchmont is still abandoned.
The Larchmont Playhouse once became national headlines following the fatal stabbing of its theater manager, 47-year-old Paul Marks of Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York, exactly two months after Marks became manager of the Larchmont Playhouse, and I think it’s best to include information about the murder.
On July 12, 1992, Marks was fatally stabbed to death at the theater’s basement exactly two months after Marks became the manager of the Playhouse itself. According to investigators, he was both bludgeoned, abused, r*ped, and stabbed to death during the early morning hours, several hours before the day’s first showing of “A League Of Their Own”. His body was found faced down on the boiler-room floor, hogtied with an orange extension cord and a black electric cord.
The suspect, 16-year-old Eduardo Castillo-Rojas, an illegal immigrant from Chihuahua, Mexico, who also resided in Park Slope was taken into custody from inside a Holiday Inn room in Las Cruces, New Mexico, exactly 13 days after the murder. according to a student at the University of New Mexico at the time, he first met Hurst in New Mexico on an Amtrak train in March 1992. His cousin, 24-year-old Samuel Rojas, also from Chihuahua, was also taken into custody afterward. According to investigators, it was confirmed that Marks hired BOTH Samuel and Eduardo to work in May 1992.
On July 3, 1993, Eduardo was found guilty on two counts of second-degree murder. According to Eduardo, he murdered him for both money and s** (my reaction: “WTF?”). He was sentenced to 25 years to life by a judge the following month, and according to the judge himself, he will not be released from prison until he’s 41. The entire story was SO GIANT that almost every single newspaper outlet in New York updated information about Marks' murder multiple times until the Spring of 1994.