Grace Street Cinemas
814 W. Grace Street,
Richmond,
VA
23220
814 W. Grace Street,
Richmond,
VA
23220
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The Biograph Theatre opened on February 12, 1972 with Alan Bates in “King of Hearts” & Jason Robards in “A Thousand Clowns”. It screened classic Hollywood films with art house and foreign films in repertory programing, with a different program every day. It was twinned on September 13, 1974. “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” ran at Midnight on Friday and Saturday nights from 1978 until 1982.
Closed in 1987, it last operated as the Grace Street Cinemas. The building is currently home to the Hyperlink Cafe.
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As of at least sometime in 2009, it is now home to the Xscape Ultra Premium Lounge. The building is currently owned by Charles Lambert.
Great place for film buffs during its run as the Biograph. Initally it showed only art films and was one screen. They paid the bills by showing DEEP THROAT to huge crowds on weekends. Eventually a second screen was added which sometimes showed porn. There was a big collage of movie photos and posters in the hallway leading to the larger theater to which items were continually added… a visual history of what had been shown there. By 1987 when it closed, the advent of the vcr had taken away much of their audience.
A picture of the theater as the Biograpg can be seen here.
The Biograph opened on February 11th, 1972. Grand opening ad posted.
reopened as a twin cinema on September 13th, 1974. Another ad posted.