Brick District Playhouse
613 Court Street,
Fulton,
MO
65251
613 Court Street,
Fulton,
MO
65251
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First operated by the Dubinsky Brothers.
B&B closed the Fulton Cinema in June 2006 when the chain opened the Fulton Cinema 8 that same month.
The Fulton Theatre became part of the Commonwealth Theatres chain on February 21, 1948 after a short remodeling.
Once operated by Wehrenberg Theatres.
There is also a bricktown website directly associated with the Fulton theater. It present a rich history with many pictures.
This is the current website: http://thebrickdistrictplayhouse.com/ Their Facebook page shows a finished theatre interior with tables set up like a dinner theatre and people watching a performance.
I don’t know if they’ve opened yet, but the interior had nothing left inside when I went in last year. The lobby is now a coffee/sandwich place.
Status should be closed/renovating. In 2005, the theatre was donated to the Callaway Arts Council. Now renamed the Brick District Playhouse, renovation began in 2015 and continues today.
Website: http://thebrickdistrict.tripod.com/playhouse.html
The official web site link above is dead, and the theater no longer appears in the listings of B&B Theatres. Its address is now listed as the location of the Callaway Arts Council. I can’t find a web site for the council, but this page of a local web site lists it, and says that the council’s goal is to preserve the theater as a performing arts center, and that they have already presented a few events there.
I can’t find any listings of upcoming events, though, so the theater must be only intermittently active for now. The house is being referred to as the “Historic Fulton Theater” (with the “er” spelling) on a number of web sites. That’s going to be a bit confusing for Internet searchers, as the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is often referred to on the web as the Historic Fulton Theatre.
Bad news in October 1947, from Boxoffice magazine:
FULTON, MO.-Adult prices have been boosted 5 to 10 cents for night and Sunday shows at the Fulton Theater, owned by Sol Bank. Admission to the main floor was boosted from 35 to 40 cents and in the balcony from 25 to 35 cents.
Note that the website in the above comment is for the downtown location only and is not at all current.
I work here, and it’ll be sad to leave the old building. I grew up here, because my mom worked here before me. I’m going to miss it, but it will be nice to have an 8-screen theater that’s all one level instead of having to walk upstairs. It’s really bad for handicapped people.
I can’t tell you for sure when we bought the theatre, but 1980 seems about right.