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Allen Theatre and MJ's Coffeehouse
Movie Tickets with Popcorn on a Monday–Thursday or Any Day at Allen Theatre and MJ's Coffeehouse (Up to 55% Off)
First-run blockbusters, foreign films, and classic movies in a single-screen theater with bustling coffee shop
Annville
$22.25 $10
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It's been known as the Astor, the Hippodrome, and the Trinity, specializing in everything from religious productions to adult films. After more than a century in existence, the single-screen theater in downtown Annville has found its purpose. Now called the Allen, the art deco sanctuary screens first-run blockbusters, new and classic art-house flicks, and foreign imports such as Raise the Red Lantern and The French Connection. Meanwhile, the adjoining coffee house livens up its selection of hot beverages, deli sandwiches, and pastries with live poetry readings and a rotating selection of local artists' work.
Only the trees remember a time when there wasn’t a theater at 200 Pennsylvania Avenue, and, except for that creepy one, they aren’t talking. Built in 1892 as part of the American Chautauqua movement, the playhouse became a local theater company in 1927 and has been staging summer productions ever since—with the exception of one year. In 1994, a brutal winter buried the theater beneath roughly 150 tons of snow, causing the roof to collapse on February 12. Within two days, though, the company had plans to host their shows under a massive tent until a new stage opened in the summer of 1995, proving that Gretna knows the show must always go on.