The Northland Theatre
Open: 1966 | Closed: 1990 | Capacity: 1487
Northland Theatre, 1960's
Opened in 1966, the Northland Theater was designed by the firm of Ted Rogvoy, and located at the Northland Mall. This modernistic-style movie house with its unusually-shaped curving and upturned roof could seat nearly 1500.
The first movie screened at the Northland was Hitchcock’s “Torn Curtain”. By the late 60s, the theater had become a 70mm roadshow house, including a year-long run of “Funny Girl”. Both the Northland and Americana, also in Southfield, fiercely competed as roadshow houses for many years, and the Northfield would end up usually showing the better films most of the time.
Ticket from the Northland showing of "Thoroughly Modern Millie", 1967
The large original auditorium was twinned in 1976. A decade later, AMC Theatres acquired the Northland, but only three years later, it was shuttered, due in large part to declining audiences and growing violence in and around the theater (a problem shared with the Americana as well in the late 80s).
Projector Room for the Northland with the 70mm projector.
The theatre went through an extensive renovation in 1999 and would reopen in 2000 as a performing arts centre, hosting stage plays, concerts, and dance competitions, as well as other events.
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