Colonial Moving Forward with Expansion Plans

is developing plans to add two more screening rooms, executive director Mary Foote told The Times Herald.

The two screening rooms, one of which would hold about 60 people, the other 160, would be added in the next door 225 Bridge Street building–former home of The Phoenix–the theater bought last fall with the help of a $250,000 redevelopment grant from the state.

Foote said the additional screen will allow the theater to expand its showings..

“One screen is hugely limiting to what we want to offer to the community,” she told the Herald.

Foot added that the two screens in the 225 Bridge Street unit may show digital movies, which would allow the Colonial to get new releases more quickly, while the Colonial’s current screen would continue to show 33mm.

Also in the theater’s plans are a reworking of the lobby and more live entertainment on the main stage.

Before construction begins though, the Colonial will perform a fundraising feasibility study and, pending its results, launch a capital campaign.