By Carol Tannenhauser
From June 3rd through August 28th, New Plaza Cinema, the art-house theater, will not be showing films at its usual venue, the screening room at Macaulay Honors College, on West 67th Street between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West.
The reason is “necessary construction at Macaulay,” according to an emailed announcement sent to its subscribers by New Plaza Cinema this week.
But fear not, all you lovers of art-house films. New Plaza Cinema will continue its summer fare at a soon-to-be announced alternative venue, according to a theater official. “New Plaza Cinema hopes to announce a summer pop-up location in the coming days, where they will regularly screen their usual programming,” a representative of the theater told West Side Rag.
New Plaza Cinema is accustomed to moving around. Started in 2018, in the wake of the closure of the immensely popular Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, it traveled around the Upper West Side showing films at the JCC, Symphony Space, the New York Institute of Technology, and a local church, before finding a home in a small theater at Macaulay in 2022.
The announcement assured movie-goers that “Macaulay Honors College is a great host and partner and we’re confident the investment they are making in the infrastructure projects at 35 West 67th Street will benefit us all.” It also stated that New Plaza Cinema will be “bringing back our Virtual Talk Back series this summer celebrating four decades of classic films, hosted by film historians Max Alvarez and Dan Cahill.”
We’ll update this story when the new venue is finalized. You can find out more about New Plaza Cinema in a prior Rag story — HERE.
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