Atlas Performing Arts Center
1333 H Street NE,
Washington,
DC
20002
1333 H Street NE,
Washington,
DC
20002
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2014 Flickr photos, scroll left for box office.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/37640374@N04/14947938439/in/photostream/
August 31st, 1938 grand opening ad in photo section.
The first theatre to have weekly television broadcasts: http://www.boxoffice.com/the_vault/issue_page?issue_id=1949-2-12&page_no=40#page_start
here’s the link to the Center’s Summer Film Series:
http://www.atlasarts.org/perform_special.php
SUMMER FILM SERIES SCHEDULE*
70’s Family Series aka the Gen X Nostalgia Series (5pm Saturdays June 19-September 4)
Buy a Family Package
June 19 The Muppet Movie
June 26 Pippi in the South Seas
July 3 1776
July 10 Charlotte’s Web
July 17 The Bad News Bears
July 24 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
July 31 Bugsy Malone
Aug 7 Snoopy Come Home
Aug 14 Tom Sawyer
Aug 21 The Call of the Wild
Aug 28 Black Stallion
Sep 4 The Wiz
Cinema al Fresco aka Staycation Series (8pm Saturdays June 19-Sept 4)
Get Your Passport – That’s Amore!
June 19 Cinema Paradiso
June 26 The Godfather II
July 3 La Dolce Vita
July 10 Everybody’s Fine (Stanno Tutti Bene)
July 17 Seven Beauties
July 24 Only You
July 31 It Started in Naples
Aug 7 The Talented Mr. Ripley
Aug 14 Nine
Aug 21 Three Coins in the Fountain
Aug 28 Romeo and Juliet
Sept 4 Roman Holiday
Gay 101 (8pm June 9-Sept 2)
Get your PINK Card!
June 9 A Star is Born (Benefit for One in Ten-Wednesday evening))
June 17 The Women
June 24 Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
July 1 Breakfast at Tiffany's
July 8 Auntie Mame
July 15 La Cage Aux Folles
July 22 Valley of the Dolls
July 29 Where the Boys Are
Aug 5 All About Eve
Aug 12 Suddenly, Last Summer
Aug 19 Cabaret
Aug 26 Mommie Dearest
Sept 2 Steel Magnolias
Here is another photo:
http://tinyurl.com/y93qo9f
Here and here are February 2008 photos of the Atlas.
as other members have noted, yes the Atlas Theatre has reopened but not as a film venue.
I didn’t know they lt up the blade considering the present state the building is in. I have been driving on H street the last few days. There is a crane set up towards the back and the building sits exposed to the eliments. It is sad to see that the rest of the area is so run down.
“The work is proceeding in every part of the site now.†The next milestone will be replacing the roof on the old movie theatre space this winter. The masonry wall extensions can be seen on the south wall of that space, as well as the rear of the Joy of Motion studio that occupies the former Safeway. The increased height will enable theatre and dance companies to creatively set and light their performances in both the fixed-seat theatre (276 capacity) and flex-seat theatre (300 capacity). Both spaces will be ready for the fall season in 2006, which will include gala opening events and performances in late October.
http://www.atlasarts.org/
The facade, blade sign and marquee have been beautifully restored. The neon really brightens up that stretch of H Street, which is beginning to make a comeback from decades of disinvestment and abandonment.
Is this bad-boy open again?
The Atlas Theatre is located at 1331 H Street.