200 Stuart Street
Boston,
MA
02116
Phone: 617-426-4499
This venue was originally constructed as a two-screen movie theatre, the Sack Cinema 57 on Stuart Street near the heart of the theatre district. It opened in late-1971 and showed films for more than two decades as part of the Sack Theatres chain. Its last operator was Loews, who closed the theatre in May 1996.
It became the Stuart Street Playhouse in one of the former screens, used for live theatre productions. In the other former screen it was used as an indoor golf school for several years.
The theatre closed as a live stage venue in the spring of 2009, but became a cinema again on October 30, 2009, keeping the name Stuart Street Playhouse. The opening movies were "Paris" and "The September Issue". Half of the original Sack 57 is reused as this 435 seat cinema. The other half, which once seated 800, and was later converted to a golf course, is still unused.