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Chicago, Illinois
1929 landmark art-house cinema with the Rated Q camp series.
The Music Box Theatre is a 1929 landmark movie palace on the Southport Corridor, still running as an independent art-house cinema with two screens and a lounge. Its queer programming includes Rated Q, a recurring camp and drag film series, plus long-standing midnight screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The main auditorium keeps its original atmospheric ceiling and side-wall architecture.
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