Pretty much everywhere you look, movie theaters and performance spaces are in trouble. Box office attendance is down. But you know what’s up? At-home movie streaming. So what happens when everyone stays home and the movie palaces and multiplexes go dark? Are we losing something?



Matt Lambros has been traveling the country taking photographs of historic movie palaces— huge, ornate theaters with grand marquees, gilded chandeliers, crimson drapes, and stuccoed walls. Some cities have found creative ways to reuse them — as concert venues, hotel lobbies, even churches — but others are empty ruins. Matt wants to document as many of them as he can before they disappear.



Montauk Theatre in Passaic, NJ during demolition.⠀ ⠀ http://bit.ly/2xgeVOB A post shared by Matt (@afterthefinalcurtain) on Sep 18, 2017 at 10:30am PDT

Balcony, Loew’s 46th Street Theatre - Brooklyn, NY.⠀ ⠀ http://bit.ly/2jgwJDY A post shared by Matt (@afterthefinalcurtain) on Sep 10, 2017 at 8:32am PDT

Auditorium, Loew's Kings Theatre (pre-restoration) - Brooklyn, NY. A post shared by Matt (@afterthefinalcurtain) on Sep 4, 2017 at 10:42am PDT

Balcony, Loew's Kings Theatre (pre-restoration) - Brooklyn, NY.⠀ ⠀ http://bit.ly/2iEN6Kk A post shared by Matt (@afterthefinalcurtain) on Sep 2, 2017 at 9:40am PDT

View of the auditorium from the box seats, Paramount Theatre - Newark, NJ.⠀ ⠀ http://bit.ly/2iFi4SL A post shared by Matt (@afterthefinalcurtain) on Aug 30, 2017 at 7:14am PDT

Projection Room, Adams Theatre - Newark, NJ.⠀ ⠀ http://bit.ly/2hnzdQh A post shared by Matt (@afterthefinalcurtain) on Aug 6, 2017 at 12:34pm PDT