The postage-stamp stage was set in the middle of a long, rectangular room that had once been a synagogue. Banked in two long tiers, the audience craned to watch the play as though peering from the ...

GRAND FORKS – Christopher Jacobs doesn’t go out to the movies very often. The University of North Dakota professor and local film buff has immersed his life in movies. He teaches film classes at the ...

The busiest theater in Chicago isn’t a theater in the traditional sense–it’s the brick-walled basement of a Wrigleyville restaurant. The cramped confines of the underground performance space at ...

As home theaters gain popularity, more and more home theater enthusiasts are carving out dedicated home theater rooms from previously unused basement space. Once reserved for Hollywood movie moguls, a ...

On the evening of December 30, 2014, just as two dozen or so patrons were settling into their seats at a purposefully ramshackle basement theater in central Moscow to watch a film about the ongoing ...