Preservation advocates had hoped an anonymous donor’s offer to purchase the historic Boyd Theater would save its stunning Art Deco auditorium. But iPic Theaters has continued to fight for its plan to install eight movie screens and an Italian restaurant in the building

An anonymous local foundation has offered to match a $4.5 million bid from developers who propose to replace the theater’s Art Deco interior with eight movie screens and an Italian restaurant

Christopher Mote reports on arguments for and against granting the prospective developer of the Boyd the right to demolish the movie palace’s historic art deco auditorium. The case will be reviewed Tuesday by the hardship committee of the Philadelphia Historical Commission

With a cinema chain’s proposal to redevelop the Boyd Theater by destroying its epic art deco auditorium, the Friends of the Boyd will host a public rally to save the theater on Tuesday, December 10, at 11:30AM

iPic, a Florida-based operator of luxury theater and restaurant complexes, is seeking a hardship ruling from the Historical Commission that would allow the company to tear down the Boyd’s beloved Art Deco auditorium

The most prized items in Harry K’s 2,000+ item collection on Philadelphia? His signed copied of the 1964 Time Magazine with Bacon on the cover and his copy of the The Design of Cities

As of this month, the Boyd Theater has been closed for 10 years. It’s not much of a showstopper on the outside, but the interior is another story and we’ve got the pictures to prove it