Showtimes & Tickets

Just saw " Vivacious Lady" It was great to spend time in such a fine theater, the live pipe-organ music alone is worth the admission. The decor, ambience, and big crowd made the experience something to remember. Thanks, guys for bringing these kinds of film to the neighborhood!

The Heights Theater is a treasure. It offers the kind of movie experience no longer available in most theaters today. It raises mere movie going to event status with the beautiful decor, chandeliers, velvet drapes. The elegant music that plays before the show starts was a nice change from the cheap movie ads that are shown at the mega plex theaters. A lot of work went into restoring this classic theater and it shows. I for one appreciate the opportunity to enjoy some charm from a by gone era. I will be back. Thanks for the wonderful experience.

The experience was truly a delight. The moment you walk through the front doors you are whisked away to a magical time. A time when attending the movies was an event not just a thing to do. My wife and I have attended several weekend movies and each time we have been greeted by the wonderful sound of a fully restored organ bellowing out show tunes from the days of yore. I recommend going to the Heights Theater and making an evening out of it.

Well since its 2005 relics like this place are becoming hard to find. Its nice that outside of Ren Fest art students can still get jobs, even if its a run down theater (I mean historic...oops). But on the plus side, The vegans that are regulars to this place don't crowd the isles with hacky sack tourneys and hummus piles.... YAY!

Going to a movie in the Heights Theater on Central Avenue in Columbia Heights is like going back in time - a much better time. This is a one screen theater so treats each film it offers as a special event. The first movie I ever saw there was a 70mm offering of the classic "Lawrence of Arabia." Before the movie started, the audience was treated not to an endless loop of ads or muzak but to a concert of show tunes played by an organist on a vintage Wurlitzer. One of the theater owners then introduced the movie, giving some background on the production and telling the audience about the 70mm print versus a normal 35 mm film. During the intermission, theater employees wheeled in carts and sold coffee, cookies, bars, and baklava to the patrons. In the day and age of cookie cutter movie theaters, endless strings of mind-numbing previews, and the $7 container of popcorn, how could anyone not like the Heights Theater? I have been back often and taken along many friends all of whom now share my affection for this movie house.