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42nd Street (Big Screen Classics)
Renowned Broadway producer/director Julian Marsh is hired to put together a new musical revue. It’s being financed by Abner Dillon to provide a starring vehicle for his girlfriend, songstress Dorothy Brock. Marsh, who is quite ill, is a difficult task master working long hours and continually pushing the cast to…
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Potterthon in August, Seats in September
RICHMOND, Va., July 11, 2017 – The Byrd Theatre is pleased to announce a date for new seats, plus four movie marathons headlining a new quarter of special programming. Center section seat replacement has begun. If you have seen a film at the Byrd over the last couple weeks, it won’t…
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Potterthon Tees
The Byrd is collaborating with Bonfire, to mark the occasions of our spectacular new month-long marathons in August, September and October. Today we launch the Potterthon tee over a 14-day campaign in a variety of styles and colors, concluding Sunday, July 23, so fans can have shirts delivered in time to…
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An Update to Seat Restoration at the Byrd
Seating Restoration at the Byrd Theatre in 2017 The Byrd is executing the first phase of a multi-pronged interior rehabilitation of the facility designed to increase patron comfort and accessibility. Theaters in the 1920s were designed to maximize seating to meet tremendous demand. Our seats are the original ones and…
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1776: A Celebration of Our Independence
1776 is a musical film (based upon the 1969 stage musical of the same title) which dramatizes the events leading up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It has always been a 4th of July favorite in my family. What better way to celebrate the holiday than a musical about how American…
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"2001: A Space Odyssey" is the Ultimate Trip
Called the “ultimate trip” on its 1968 release, and displaying what one critic called the most audacious cut in film history, Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey still merits these superlatives. Using then state-of-the-art special effects, this non-CGI spectacle inspires awe—nowhere more so than in the large screen format only possible…
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It Happens at the Byrd Tomorrow Night!
Richmond’s historic Byrd Theater presents Frank Capra’s classic film It Happened One Night this Wednesday (5/31) at 7:30 PM. The film tells the story of Ellie Andrews, who has eloped against her wealthy family’s wishes, they think Ellie’s new husband is just after her money. Her father Alexander (Walter Connolly) locks her…
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Kickin’ @$$ & Drinkin’ Beer: A Dazed & Confused Retrospective
Filmmaking wunderkind and Texas native Richard Linklater has always applied an anthropological eye in the way he crafts his films; from his second film, the seminal coming of age flick Slackers to his Oscar winning 12-years-in-the-making masterpiece Boyhood, Linklater entrenches his films in their place on the cultural timeline and…
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Sullivan’s Travels: Road Tripping at The Byrd
Along with Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” and the Village People’s “YMCA,” Jack Kerouac’s 1959 novel On the Road must be one of the most misunderstood works of American literature. The novel’s protagonists, Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty (fictionalized versions of Kerouac and his friend Neal Cassady) crisscross the…
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Director/Animator Dash Shaw escorts High School Sinking back to hometown RVA
From Richmond Native and acclaimed graphic novelist Dash Shaw (Bottomless Belly Button; New School) comes an audacious debut that is equal parts disaster cinema, high school comedy and blockbuster satire, told through a dream-like mixed media animation style that incorporates drawings, paintings and collage. Andrew Lapin of NPR writes, “You are…
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