Landmark Theatres
Founded in 1974, Landmark Theatres is a chain of 50 movie houses dedicated to showing independent, foreign and eclectic films. Operating out of a variety of cities, many of the Landmark's venues are vintage theaters with a historic past (though they do have many newer structures as well.) Landmark Theatre Corporation began as Parallax Theatres which was founded in 1974 by Kim Jorgensen with the opening of the Nuart Theater in Los Angeles, Sherman Theater in Sherman Oaks, the Rialto Theatre in South Pasadena, and the Ken Cinema in San Diego. Steve Gilula and Gary Meyer became partners in 1976 as the chain expanded as Landmark.
Landmark has a long history of supporting The Rocky Horror Picture Show in its theaters, beginning as far back as 1976, with current runs in Los Angeles, Washington DC, Denver, San Diego, and San Francisco, among others.
Current Landmark Rocky Horror Theaters
Landmark maintains a list of their shadow casts.[1]
- Del Mar Theater - Santa Cruz, CA - Slugs in Fishnets
- E Street Cinema - Washington, DC - Sonic Transducers
- Esquire Theater - Denver, CO - Colorado’s Elusive Ingredient
- Inwood Theatre - Dallas, TX - Los Bastardos
- Ken Cinema - San Diego, CA (Current, 3rd Friday of every month) - Crazed Imaginations
- Nuart Theater - Los Angeles, CA (Current, every Saturday) - Sins O' The Flesh
- Ritz East Theater - Philadelphia, PA - Transylvanian Nipple Productions
- River Oaks Theater - Houston, TX - The Royal Mystic Order of Chaos
- The Oriental Theater - Milwaukee, WI (Current 2nd Saturday of the month)
- Tivoli Theatre - St. Louis, MO - Samurai Electricians
- Twin Theater - Albany, CA (Second Saturday of every other month) - Barely Legal
- Uptown Theatre - Minneapolis, MN - Transvestite Soup
Previous Landmark Rocky Horror Theaters
- Sherman Theater - Sherman Oaks, CA (May 7, 1977 - December 27, 1980)
- Rialto Theatre - South Pasadena, CA (January 7, 1978 - December 29, 2007)
- Loft Cinema - Tucson, AZ (January 6, 1978 - Current)
- UC Theatre - Berkeley, CA (September 23, 1977 - January 2, 1999)
- Clay Theater - San Francisco, CA (Last Saturday of every month - 1991-2020)
- Guild Theater - Menlo Park, CA (first Saturday of every month - 1997-2019)
