Sun Theatre, Movie theater in Yarraville, Australia
The Sun Theatre is a movie theater in Yarraville with eight separate screens, each showing different films. The rooms feature refurbished club seating with generous legroom and coffee tables between the seats.
The theater opened in 1938 as a single-screen venue with around 1,050 seats and was part of Melbourne's early cinema landscape. After two decades of closure, a major renovation in 1995 brought it back as a modern multiplex.
Each screening room carries the name of a former Melbourne cinema, preserving the memory of the city's entertainment venues. This naming practice connects the current venue with the city's cinematic past.
The theater offers various specialized screenings, including sessions for parents with infants and adjusted presentations for neurodiverse audiences with modified sound and lighting. These options make a visit flexible and accessible for different needs.
During its early years, the theater maintained a numbered pram room where parents could leave their babies and receive screen notifications if their child needed attention. This facility shows how cinemas once supported family life.
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