Showing live theatrical productions in movie theaters isn’t a new phenomenon, but it’s new for downtown Houston. (If anyone remembers the Angelika doing this sort of thing, please let me know.) Houston’s Sundance Cinemas Theater will kick off the new year with a live theatrical event – the National Theatre of London’s production of Collaborators, a new play by John [...]

Too late for the Cinema Arts Festival but in time for a slew of “grown-up” holiday and awards-seasons movies, Houston’s new Sundance Cinemas theater will open downtown on Nov. 23. It is a welcome addition to the city’s theater scene. The Sundance theater will take over the Bayou Place space that the Angelika Theater Center abruptly vacated last year after [...]

Renovation of the old Angelika Theater Center space downtown is expected to begin “immediately,” Sundance Cinema announced. The new Sundance Cinema complex is projected to open Nov. 1 after “extensive refurbishment,” the company said in a press release late Thursday. We reported yesterday (linking to an item in the Chronicle) about downtown Houston getting a new movie theater to replace [...]