Atlanta’s Tara Theatre could reopen soon

ATLANTA – Atlanta’s Tara Theatre, recognized for exhibiting principally unbiased and, up to now, typically even controversial movies, might be reopening quickly greater than three months after closing.

Then-owners, Regal Cinemas, made the announcement again in November to shutter the ability situated on the nook of Cheshire Bridge and Lavista roads after greater than 55 years.

What’s being carried out to reopen the Tara Theatre?

Based on studies, Plaza Theatre proprietor Chris Esobar appeared in a video message forward of Tuesday’s evening closing screening for the Atlanta Jewish Movie Pageant asserting that the theatre would reopen in “few months.”

Escobar reportedly partnered with a number of organizations and buyers to make this occur.

The taraatlanta.com web site now permits individuals to donate or buy advance reward playing cards. The objective is to boost about $50,000 to have the ability to open the theatre once more.

The “about web page” now reads:

“Delivered to you by the staff at The Plaza Theater Atlanta – we have taken over this historic venue and plan to return it to it is former glory – WITH YOUR HELP. Test again for additional updates.”

Reward playing cards are available in $10, $25, $50, or a customized quantity.

Donations as small as $1 may also be made.

The historical past of Tara Theatre

The theatre opened in 1968 because the Loew’s Tara, a 1,200-seat single theatre named for the plantation within the Atlanta-centric film “Gone with the Wind.” The theatre would cut up into two within the Nineteen Seventies after which would turn out to be 4 theatres within the subsequent decade.

It was acquired by Regal Cinemas in 2002 and underwent a rework that invoked silver display legends, calls again to the golden age of movie, and an artwork deco look.

The theatre formally closed on Nov. 11 with its final showings, leaving Midtown Artwork Cinema and The Plaza Theatre as the 2 remaining artwork home theaters within the metropolis.