Anson/Wadesboro Community Theatre
112 S. Rutherford Street,
Wadesboro,
NC
28170
112 S. Rutherford Street,
Wadesboro,
NC
28170
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Previously operated by: Stewart and Everett
Functions: Community Arts Center
Previous Names: Ansonia Theatre, New Ansonia Theatre
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The Ansonia Theatre was opened in 1925. In 2006 Wadesboro mounted a campaign to renovate the long closed Ansonia Theatre to create a performing arts center for the city. The triangular marquee has a great stylized “A” wrappping around the sides.
It reopened as a community theatre in 2011.
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The last picture show that played at the Ansonia Theatre in Wadesboro was a Will Smith flick “Bad Boys II” that played to a capacity crowd that evening. The Ansonia was in desperate need of repair and it looked like this was the end of a grand movie palace that served its community very well(the people of Anson County not to mention the counties of Richmond,Stanly and its neighbors over in the communities of Chesterfield,SC-Marlboro County). The theatre will be renovated and turned into a community center for the performing arts. The theatre also served as a backup for areas theatres too(such as the Richmond Plaza Cimema Twin and the Plaza Twin in Rockingham-18 miles away)
At one time during its heyday….The Ansonia Theatre was the only moviehouse operating in town.
Here is link to picture from about 1963 at my flickr site:
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Soon to be reopened as the Anson/Wadesboro Community Theatre,formerly the Ansonia Theatre.
Here is a photo taken during restoration:
http://tinyurl.com/yhy2gcq
Goodluck,Ansonia Theatre.
In the early seventies it was called the NEW ANSONIA THEATRE.
“HALLOWEEN 2” played there Rated R.According to management No one under 18.
A lot of blaxploitation movies played at the ANSONIA too during the early to mid-1970’s. I fondly remember seeing “DOLEMITE” on the same triple bill as “COOLEY HIGH”,and “CORNBREAD,EARL AND ME”. The following week in July of 1975,the ANSONIA played another double bill with “THREE THE HARD WAY” and “TRUCK TURNER”.
Just learned of this theatre while at the Center Theatre 75th birthday party in Monroe NC…David Nelms and Nathan Hopper are restoring it.