Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train

Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train still delivers

Alfred Hitchcock and Patricia Highsmith. Taken separately, they’re two of the defining artists ofthe post-World War 2 era, matching pulp thrills with biting satire and gut-wrenching depravity.Put them together, and it’s a match made in heaven for chronicling yuppy...

Polar Express kids

The Polar Express and the Era of Motion Capture

“The Polar Express” is an early 2000s hit turned Christmas classic. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, it tells the story of a young boy who takes a journey to the North Pole during the holiday season and learns that the Christmas spirit, and really the wonder of life in...

Apartment

Rear Window, a Hitchcock classic

In Rear Window, Alfred Hitchcock melds together themes of post war anxiety with voyeurism and suspenseful crime. Rear Window tells the story of L.B. Jeffries, a photographer in New York City who, after getting hit by a car trying to get an epic action...

March Big Screen Classics:

Women's History & Science on Screen Sunshine Cleaning (2008)  March 6, 2019 @ 7:15 pm to 9:00 pm Tickets $5 In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school, a mom starts an unusual business -- a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up...

Big LeByrdSki Fest Tickets Now Available!

The Byrd Theatre Foundation and Center of the Universe Brewing Company, Ashland, will host the fourth annual Big LeBYRDski Fest November 2-3. We’re celebrating big in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Coen brother’s classic The Big Lebowski. We've added a...

The Big LeBYRDski Festival 2018

The Byrd Theatre Foundation and Center of the Universe Brewing Company, Ashland, will host the fourth annual Big LeBYRDski Fest November 2-3. We’re celebrating big in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Coen brother’s classic The Big Lebowski. We've added a...

A Frightfully Good Collection of Universal Monster Movies

Only six years pass between 1954’s Creature from the Black Lagoon, the last of the classic Universal monster horror films, and 1960’s Peeping Tom, the first film we might call a “slasher film,” but once the gates were open for blood and violence and full-bore...

The Big LeBYRDski

November 3, 2017 - November 3, 2017 2908 West Cary Street Map and Directions Description: Center of the Universe Brewing and The Byrd Theatre Foundation are excited to invite you to a special event screening of the one and only The Big Lebowski. For the second year...

Phantom of the Opera

Friday, October 27  7:30 p.m. Join us for one of Richmond's favorite Halloween events - the screening of the 1925 ORIGINAL "Phantom of the Opera" with the one and only Lon Chaney. This year's screening of this iconic silent film is accompanied at console of the...

POTTERTHON

PURCHASE ADVANCED TICKETS ($5/film) > In an effort to further expand the Byrd's signature film offerings, and connect the community through enhanced cinematic experiences, August brings the first of three month-long marathons. Screenings Mondays and Tuesdays,...