Vinegar Hill Theater shuts its doors

Vinegar Hill Theater will shut its doors for good on Thursday, after a last screening of Bill Maher’s Religulous. It will remain open over the weekend as a venue for the Virginia Film Festival.

After 32 years, the theater will close due to a reported lack of ticket sales. Ann Porotti, who opened the theater in 1976 with then-husband Chief Gordon, reportedly began financing the theater herself to keep it open.
 

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