The movies are back! As theaters begin to dust off the screens and fire up the popcorn makers, Alamo Drafthouse has announced at least fifteen of the cinema eatery’s theaters will be back up and running come summertime!
Tickets have become available for Alamo Drafthouse’s Brooklyn location. Both the Los Angeles and Austin’s Mueller locations are scheduled to reopen Friday, May 28, 2021, and tickets will be available beginning May 17.
Below is a full schedule of planned reopenings through July for Alamo Drafthouse locations. Details on additional locations (including brand new locations!) will be announced later this year.
April 28th
Springfield, MO
May 7th
New York, NY (Brooklyn)
May 28th
Los Angeles, CA
Austin, TX (Mueller)
June
Dallas / Fort Worth, TX (Cedars, Lake Highlands, Richardson)
Denver, CO (Westminster)
Omaha, NE
San Antonio, TX (Stone Oak)
July
Austin, TX (Village)
Laredo, TX
Lubbock, TX
San Francisco, CA
Yonkers, NY
Currently Open
Austin, TX (Lakeline, Slaughter Lane, South Lamar)
Central Virginia (Charlottesville)
Corpus Christi, TX
Denver, CO (Sloans Lake)
El Paso, TX (East El Paso, Montecillo)
Houston, TX (LaCenterra)
Northern Virginia (Ashburn, Woodbridge)
Phoenix, AZ (Chandler, Gilbert, Tempe)
Raleigh, NC
San Antonio, TX (Park North)
Winchester, VA
“This past weekend’s box office wasn’t just the biggest for our theaters during the COVID era – in fact, it would have been pretty healthy in ‘the old days’ era,” says Shelli Taylor, Alamo Drafthouse CEO. “It’s so gratifying to see audiences so enthusiastically embracing not just our theaters but our industry as a whole.”
Recent box office success of DEMON SLAYER, GODZILLA VS KONG, and MORTAL KOMBAT, and an increasingly exciting slate of upcoming first run films that includes A QUIET PLACE PART II, F9, and BLACK WIDOW will continue to propel Alamo Drafthouse beyond COVID. The company’s trademark approach to repertory programming has also been essential in offering diverse options for moviegoers. Alamo Drafthouse’s “Support Local Cinemas” series was introduced in March and included cast reunions for THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy hosted by Stephen Colbert and DAZED AND CONFUSED hosted by Jack Black. These pre-recorded conversations were produced by Alamo Drafthouse and shared worldwide with any theater that requested them – completely for free.
Refining the Alamo Drafthouse experience
Operating during the COVID era has been an immense challenge for all movie theaters – struggles that will continue even once the industry and the world has returned to a sense of ‘normalcy.’
After reopening last August, Alamo Drafthouse reinvented its entire operating model to create the safest possible indoor gathering place – safer even than supermarkets, bars, and restaurants. The endeavor required dramatically enhanced safety protocols, HVAC upgrades, and state-of-the-art technology upgrades. Many of Alamo Drafthouse’s COVID-era innovations, including pre-ordering food and beverages and Your Own Private Alamo personal theater bookings, will remain part of the company’s model going forward.

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