Somerville Theatre

Slutcracker throws in the vibrator, cancels remainder of performances due to Covid-19

By adamg - 12/20/21 - 10:25 pm

Slutcracker producers announced today the show can't go on, after at least one cast member tested positive for Covid-19 last week. Read more.

A moving picture

By adamg - 9/17/21 - 11:59 pm

The Somerville Theatre ran its projectors for the public tonight for the first time since it shut in March, 2020. Our own Ron Newman was there for re-opening night. He saw Last Night in Rozzie.

ArtsEmerson, Independent Film Festival Boston postpone upcoming events

By Ron Newman - 3/13/20 - 2:52 pm

The Independent Film Festival Boston, scheduled to unspool April 22-29 at the Somerville, Brattle, and Coolidge Corner theatres, will be postponed to unspecified future dates. The theatres themselves remain open for now, and IFFB urges moviegoers to patronize them.

ArtsEmerson, operator of the Cutler Majestic and Paramount theatres, is suspending all of its programming through at least the end of March, including the current show Plata Quemada and the upcoming Parable of the Sower.

The theater frowns on people throwing kitty litter at the screen

By adamg - 1/27/20 - 10:18 am

The movie adaptation of "Cats" was pretty widely panned as an awful waste of time and money. But so awful you want to see it? The Somerville Theatre has started showing the movie late on Friday and Saturday nights, which is the sort of thing that turned "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" from a low-budget film hardly anybody saw on its first release into a cult phenomenon.

But the theater cautions: Read more.

"The Way of the Warrior-Bunny" comes to Somerville Theatre Microcinema Tuesday

By andtruth - 11/25/11 - 11:16 pm

The premiere of Unreliable Narrator's first web series The Way of the Warrior-Bunny is taking place Tuesday, November 29. Performances are at 7 and 9 PM at the microcinema at the Somerville Theatre (55 Davis Square, Somerville, MA). Admission is $6.00; for reservations email [email protected].