Towngate Cinema
Recognizing the artistic value of film as the medium of the 20th century, Oglebay Institute welcomed a cinema program to its already successful Towngate Theatre season in 1998. Offering current hit films, as well as classics, Towngate Cinema is the community alternative to larger impersonal cinemas. Using a weekend format, cinema features are presented on weekends that there is no live performance on the Towngate stage. Refreshments are available and parking is curbside. Offering the public the biggest screen in the region, comfortable seating, friendly service and excellence choices in cinema entertainment, Towngate Cinema is your door to entertainment!

Tickets: $7 evening/$6 matinee & OI members
Towngate Cinema: Featured Movies
“Crazy Heart”

Bad Blake is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who's had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad can't help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean, a journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician. As he struggles down the road of redemption, Bad learns the hard way just how tough life can be on one man's crazy heart.

MPAA: R

112 min.
“The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus”

Dr. Parnassus has the extraordinary gift of inspiring the imaginations of others. Helped by his traveling theatre troupe, including his sarcastic and cynical sidekick Percy and versatile young player Anton, Parnassus offers audience members the chance to transcend mundane reality by passing through a magical mirror into a fantastic universe of limitless imagination. However, Parnassus' magic comes at a price. For centuries he's been gambling with the devil, Mr. Nick who is coming to collect his prize -- Parnassus' precious daughter, Valentina on her upcoming 16th birthday. Oblivious to her rapidly approaching fate, Valentina falls for Tony, a charming outsider with motives of his own. In order to save his daughter and redeem himself, Parnassus makes one final bet with Mr. Nick, which sends Tony and Valentina and the entire theatre troupe on a ride of twists and turns, in and out of London and the Imaginarium's spectacular landscape.

MPAA: PG-13

122 min.
“The Last Station”

Set in the last tumultuous years of famed Russian author Leo Tolstoy's life, centers on the battle for his soul waged by his wife Sofya Andreyevna and his leading disciple Vladimir Cherkov. Torn between his professed doctrine of poverty and chastity and the reality of his enormous wealth, his thirteen children and a life of hedonism, Tolstoy makes a dramatic flight from his home. Too ill to continue beyond the tiny rail station at Astapovo, he believes that he is dying alone, while over one hundred newspapermen camp outside awaiting hourly reports on his condition.

MPAA: R

112 min.

  

 

 

 

 
Contacts
Towngate Theatre
& Cinema
2118 Market Street Wheeling, WV
1-88-TOWNGATE