The Woodstock is a historic New York City theatre, opened September 6, 1913. Designed by Robert H. Fryer, who also designed the Apollo Theatre in Harlem and the Brooklyn Fox Theatre, the Woodstock was originally named the “Colonial Theatre”. The process of renaming the Colonial to the Woodstock began in 1968 when Tokasz Theatre Enterprises started to renovate the theatre to make it a national center for experimental and underground films, as the existing neighborhood near the theater was known for its anti-establishment views. As a result, the Colonial Theatre in 1969 was renamed the Woodstock Theatre.In August 1978, the Woodstock Theatre temporarily slowed its movie schedule to accommodate a summer theater company’s eight-week run of Love Letters at the Theatre. The cinema showings were limited to the first two showings of the day.The Woodstock Theatre was closed at the end of 1995, with the final movie being African Queen. In 1996, the theatre was purchased by the Shubert Organization, who then oversaw the theatre’s first “normal day” of business of the historic place, and opened nearly one year to the day after it closed in 1995. As a concession to the neighborhood, the statutory wall separating the theatre from the streets was torn down, but this allowed the New York Sky Line to be seen from bits of the theatre.In 2001, Artspace Artspace, a Lutheran-Methodist ec