Regent Theatre
62 Main Street,
Pahiatua
5470
62 Main Street,
Pahiatua
5470
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The cinema’s address is now 62 Main Street (changed by the council a few years back), and even more importantly, the website is now www.RegentUpstairs.com. Also, the current projection is a 2K Christie Solaria CP2215 with an 8.5m Cinescope screen and automated masking.
Update January 2021. New seating and wall drapes installed 2012 (actually 2nd-hand ex “Regent On Manners” in Wellington) Seating capacity now 100 seats . Projection upgraded to DCI Digital in Feb 2015. Our website is now: https://www.regentupstairs.co.nz
Latest Updates June 2011: Now screen every Thurs Fri Sat Sun & Wed.
The downstairs auditorium can seat 150. The seats are not cinema seats as such but are soft-furnished chairs some of which are used with tables as sometimes the live productions in this auditorium are presented in “theatre-restaurant” style with a meal and bar services avaialble before the show. The downstairs auditorium is the home of the Pahiatua Repertory Society who own the building and who put on 3 or four live shows every year.
Here is a link to our web-site: http://www.nzcinema.co.nz/cinemas/1018.php
The Regent licensed by the Cinema Licensing Authority (Govt Dept) and open as a cinema before 1920.
Thanks for the additional information Bruce;
I have made the amendments to the introduction. Can you let us know the seating capacity of the downstairs auditorium to complete the information on the building, as we list it as movies and live performances.
I recently came across an advertisement in the Pahiatua Herald of 14 Feb 1914, for a production of the comic opera “The Cingalee” held at The King’s Theatre Pahiatua. So we now know that this theatre was known as the “King’s Theatre” at that date. :–)
Also we only have one screen. We have 2 auditoriums but one is used only for live productions and has no projector or screen.We also have only 175 seats now.
And of course it is a “Kinoton” projector we have and not “Kinetron”.
( I don’t know how to edit the information already on this page, hence these comments.
Bruce Lea, Manager/operator
An October 2007 photograph of the Regent Theatre:
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I believe it became known as The Kings Theatre when talkies were first introduced. It was previously known as The Olympic Theatre and was originally built in 1890, by a Mr Stewart the owner of “Stewarts Family and Commercial Hotel” next door and was known then as Stewarts Hall.
According to Wises Street directory listing this cinem,a was opened as early as 1924. Closed in 1985. There was no listing for “Kings Theatre” in Wises 1924 edition.
The Upstairs cinema opened in 1984.