Rose Ellis has kept that promise. For two years, she’s been fighting to stop the demolition of the United Artists Theatre in downtown Berkeley. The theater, which opened in 1932 with film stars ...

A century ago, on Aug. 5, 1922, a refurbished movie theater opened in Berkeley. The Berkeley Theater was on the east side of Shattuck Avenue midway between Channing Way and Haste Street.

On Tuesday evening, a group of Berkeley residents went before the City Council in a last-ditch effort to prevent the demolition of a historic downtown theatre. It's part of the ongoing push to ...

BERKELEY, Calif. - The Berkeley City Council on Thursday voted to tear down the United Artists Theatre on Shattuck Avenue, the last standing movie theater in downtown, in order to convert it to ...

The rest of the magnificent old theater will be demolished. "I'm brokenhearted," said Rose Ellis. "Berkeley is becoming something that I don't recognize anymore. Although I desperately want people ...

A recent wave of independent theater closures, which have occurred over the past few years in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and other challenges,has left the city of Berkeley with only one ...

A Rhode Island developer wants to turn a century-old Berkeley movie palace into a 15-story apartment building with a live theater stage. Gilbane, based in Providence, has filed plans to redevelop ...

(KRON) — Despite a final attempt by neighbors, a historic theater in downtown Berkeley will come down. Berkeley City councilmembers voted Tuesday night to uphold their approval of a project to ...