Plaza Theatre not closing, says owner
January 15, 2008 at 4:00 pm by Andisheh Nouraee in News
Contrary to a blog rumor we read earlier today, the Plaza Theatre is not on the brink of closure.
“We are definitely not closing,” says Jonathan Rej, owner of the 69-year-old art deco movie house on Ponce De Leon Avenue. “We’ve had a couple of slow months, but it’s gonna take more than that for us to close up shop.”
Rej says he suspects the closure rumor might have been started by a disgruntled former employee. He also says the bloggers who’ve repeated the rumor have neither telephoned nor e-mailed him. Rej’s e-mail address is on theater’s website.
(Photo by Jim Stawniak)
January 15th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Oh phew.
That’s a strange rumor for a disgruntled employee to start, seeing as the reaction of the few that I’ve talked to is to run straight to the Plaza and hand them wads of dough.
To be fair, we telephoned and received no answer. We did not email because we are irresponsible.
Our staff will still be there tomorrow night at 9:30 for Blade Runner if anyone else is game.
January 15th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
They may not be closing now, but I can’t imagine they can continue for long in their current format. I don’t think showing second run art house films that didn’t have a decent original run at the Midtown or Tara is going to do the trick.
It also doesn’t help that on two recent occasions when I tried to see a movie here (Day Watch was one, can’t remember the other) I was turned away because “the film projector was having problems.”