After 10 years, renovated SHU Community Theatre reopens as indie cinema and live performance venue

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In its prime, the Sacred Heart University Community Theatre once served as home to some of the best vaudeville theatre acts around.“The theatre opened up in the early 1920s for vaudeville, and as movies became the more predominant and lucrative entertainment form, it transitioned to a movie house,” said Bill Harris, theatre director. “It survived as an independent movie theatre for about 80 years, but when the multiplexes started opening up, like a lot of independent theatres, it struggled. The original community theatre put up a dividing wall in the middle and created two screens, but it was a challenging business model and eventually closed about a decade ago.”

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