According to Land Deed records, the property was transferred from previous owner Yvonne Chandler to BNW Realty LLC, from Weston, Massachusetts on Jan. 25 for $600,000.

C-Mart owner Miao Kun Fang, also known as Michael Fang, is listed as the manager of BNW Realty LLC in Deed records. Fang is trying to put an Asian market in North Quincy, an item that will be revisited in Quincy City Council in upcoming weeks.

Fang said he doesn’t have any plans for the theater but would like community input.

“I don’t have the plans right now, it was just a great deal to buy it at that price. I really don’t have any plans right now,” Fang said. “I think the best way to do it in the future is to talk with the city and the neighbors and community, and we’ll figure out the right way to do it, but so far I don’t have any plans.”

For the full story, visit http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/quincy/2012/01/quincys_wollaston_theater_sold.html

The Repertory Theatre in Kilmore St survived the September 2010 quake but was not so lucky last February.

The theatre trust has applied for a $3.25 million grant from the relief fund to allow it to rebuild.

However, council staff are recommending councillors decline the application at their Thursday meeting.

For the complete story, go to http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/christchurch-earthquake-2011/6338005/Theatre-misses-out-on-rebuild-grant

http://blog.preservationnation.org/2012/01/26/death-of-a-bodega-and-the-forgotten-theater-upstairs/
– Cezar Del Valle

 http://gawker.com/5879382/the-beautiful-decay-of-a-theater-hidden-above-a-new-york-bodega
–Tim Wagner

 http://evgrieve.com/2012/01/inside-old-theater-at-east-village.html

 http://gothamist.com/2012/01/25/secret_theater.php#photo-1

 – Biff Buttler

From the Onarga Theater website

From Glenview Illinois THS member Carol Slingo a creative, tasty way to help keep this vintage small town house open.

Welcome to the Onarga Theater website! We are a small town theater with competitive prices, quality entertainment for your family, and a hometown feel.

Please try to make our Taco Supper Fundraiser on March 3rd   to help raise money to convert to digital projection and keep The Onarga Theater doors open. Tickets on sale soon

Theatre history, schedule, pictures here:

http://www.onargatheater.com/

Mary Henderson's "Broadway Ballyhoo" , Katherine Cornell on Theatre Magazine, cover, January, 1926

Via Biff Buttler, THS founding member in New York City. Her “The City and the Theater”, “Broadway Ballyhoo”, and “The New Amsterdam” are excellent resources found in the THS Archive library.

Mary C. Henderson, Author and Scholar of Theater History, Dies at 83

Ms. Henderson, who taught theater history at New York University and other schools, wrote several books, often lavishly illustrated, reflecting her familiarity with and love of theater imagery and theater artifacts. They included “The City and the Theater” (1973, revised in 2004), a history of the city’s playhouses dating to the 18th century . . . 

Full New York Times obiturary:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/23/theater/mary-c-henderson-scholar-of-the-theater-dies-at-83.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries

From the National Trust via Dennis Wilhelm. This is a Thomas Lamb designed house.

Restored Landmark Welcomes Main Streets Conference to Baltimore

Baltimore’s legendary Hippodrome Theatre will host the Opening Plenary of the 2012 National Main Streets Conference on April 2nd. . . .

http://www.preservationnation.org/main-street/main-street-news/story-of-the-week/2012/12118hippodrome/the-last-movie-theatre.html?log-event=sp2f-view-item&nid=305010474

THS vice-president Mike Hauser of Detroit takes us to Missouri

Mo. town rallies to help local theater survive

A western Missouri movie theater in danger of closing because it can’t afford to switch from film to digital equipment got a boost from a community that sees value in a venue that has been one of the main local entertainment options for decades.

http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/227253/

Dennis Wilhelm takes us to upstate New York. The house was at one time owned by an organ fan who, with his wife and daughters,  installed a Wurlitzer.

Strand Theater Gets $150K Grant