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When word got out earlier this year that Belfast, Maine’s, historic Colonial Theatre — a quaint venue in turn-key condition — had closed last fall and was in urgent need of a new owner, many ...
Moving away from screening first-run films, the independent venue will bring old favorites back to the big screen, and concentrate on Maine-made cinema.
Belfast’s Colonial Theatre has been closed for a year. Last September, the longtime owners of that venerable Art Deco Maine movie palace retired, and since then the Colonial’s three screens ...
BELFAST, Maine (WABI) - The Colonial Theatre in Belfast is back in action. As they continue to build upon a legacy that spans over a century they’re working to spotlight the work of local ...
The historic Colonial Theatre in Belfast, Maine, has been closed since September while it awaits a new buyer, and amid efforts underway to save the beloved venue. Seeger Solutions Photography.
The nonprofit was formed in 2023 to rescue Belfast's Colonial Theatre, which dates back to 1912 and was forced to go dark in September 2022 due to financial difficulties. It reopened in November 2023.
BELFAST, Maine (WABI) - About a year ago the owners of Colonial Theatre in Belfast announced that they would be retiring from the movie business and were looking to sell.
Belfast’s High Street, in the mid-1960s. Hawthorne, the elephant statue on the theater’s roof since 1997, was then at Perry’s Nut House, across the Passagassawakeag. Courtesy of the Belfast Historical ...
(WABI) - The Colonial Theatre in Belfast is the first is the first stop of the Full Speed Ahead Festival. It’s a five-day statewide celebration of trains to coincide with National Train Day on ...
BELFAST, Maine — The chirpy, whirring sound of a 35-millimeter film projector has been heard upstairs at the Colonial Theatre for 100 years. Therese ...