8th Street Playhouse, Movie theater in Greenwich Village, US
The 8th Street Playhouse occupied a single-screen venue at 52 West 8th Street, featuring architectural elements in Streamline Moderne style.
Originally named Film Guild Cinema upon its 1929 opening, the theater received its new name as 8th Street Playhouse in 1930.
The theater established a reputation for screening independent films and maintaining regular midnight showings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show from 1978.
The cinema maintained a capacity of 450 seats, implementing a pre-sale policy by 1979 that reserved 300 seats for advance purchases.
The building transformed from a cinema to a video rental store after 1992, and later became a medical facility for Mount Sinai Hospital.
Location: Manhattan
Official opening: 1929
Address: 52 W. 8th Street, New York, NY 10011
GPS coordinates: 40.73320,-73.99880
Latest update: March 15, 2025 20:51
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