mymodernmet.com: Nearly two years ago, the historic Highland Theatre in Los Angeles shut its doors less than a week before its 100th anniversary, unable to bounce back from the COVID-19 pandemic. The space, which was designed by noted architect Lewis Arthur Smith and once hosted vaudeville performances, was all but abandoned and dilapidated—until Kristen Stewart swooped in.
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I love when celebrities do things like this. Forget going to space for no reason, forget weird technological ventures that do nothing for society: save a movie theatre instead. (Or frankly, for God’s sake, fund a hospital and plaster their name all over it.) This isn’t an isolated story. I don’t know how many theatres for film and theatre shut down through and after the COVID-19 pandemic, but it’s too many for the number of billionaires or millionaires in this world. Kristin Stewart purchased the theatre and is reimagining it after it shut down a little before its one-hundredth anniversary. The Highland theater in Los Angeles featured vaudeville in its early years, and Fox took it over by 1938. Fast forward to today, the plans seem undetermined so as to how it will be renovated, given how recent this news is. It’s heartfelt that Stewart was motivated by LA being her hometown, though I can’t imagine such a place being ‘homey’ per se.
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