Front photo, exterior of Beach Theatre. Left, Cinema I will feature high definition digital projection system with 5.1 Surround Sound. Photos by Susan Avedissian

CAPE MAY –– The Beach Theatre, under the management of the Beach Theatre Foundation, opened its doors Nov. 17 after a frenetic six weeks of preparation to make it shine.

Members of the press and Cape May NJ State Film Festival goers had their first look at the newly refurbished theater Nov. 17 before the theater reopens to the public this weekend, Nov. 23-25.

The theater hosted a day of films for the 7th Annual film festival Saturday.

The theater will reopen to the public with two theaters showing films on weekends through May and a plan to open all four screens by next summer.

CAPE MAY – The Beach Theatre under management of the Beach Theatre Foundation opened its doors Nov. 17 after a frenetic six weeks of preparation to make it shine.

The theater will reopen to the public this weekend, Nov. 23-25.

CAPE MAY — Cape May City Council presented the Beach Theatre Foundation with a check for $100,000 at a special meeting Sept. 7.

CAPE MAY — “We are at a crossroads,” Steve Jackson, president of the Beach Theatre Foundation, told a crowd gathered in the ballroom of Congress Hall Aug. 26.
The foundation is waiting to receive a $100,000 loan from the city for a one-year lease of the theater with an option to purchase the entire complex. The loan is expected to be finalized at city council’s Sept. 4 meeting at 1 p.m. and the foundation hopes to receive a check that week.

“This loan really makes or breaks us,” said Jackson.

CAPE MAY — The Beach Theatre Foundation will give a public presentation on the status of the foundation’s efforts to save Beach Theatre, and its vision for the future.

The public is invited to attend in Ballroom A at Congress Hall Hotel, Aug. 26 at 4 p.m.

Steve Jackson, foundation president and founder, will lead the presentation.

CAPE MAY — “Show us the money now,” said Jerry Gaffney, co-chairman of the Save the Beach Theatre Foundation to city council at an Aug. 7 meeting.

He asked council to authorize a $100,000 loan check be issued immediately to the foundation before final approval from the state Department of Community Affairs (DCA).

“You can do this,” said Gaffney, who is a former Cape May mayor and councilman.

He said council could take care of “red tape and technicalities,” at a later date.