Sat. Dec. 2 

Doors – 7:00 PM 

Organ Overture – 7:30 PM 

Film – 8:00 PM 

Tickets - $6 

2hr 10min | PG |Drama/Comedy | USA 

Merry Christmas, Detroit! Merry Christmas Michigan Avenue! Merry Christmas you wonderful old Senate Theater! 

We’re kicking off the season of giving this year by bringing you It’s a Wonderful Life. More than seventy-five years on, this enduring holiday classic remains just as romantic, funny, and heart wrenching as ever.  

You’ve seen it again and again, but now you can see it on the big screen in a theater that was playing movies back in 1946 when this classic was released. 

George Bailey (James Stewart) is an idealist, dedicated to his family and neighbors. Almost universally beloved, he is known as a man of integrity and generosity, living his entire life within the quaint confines of his hometown. But will a stifled ambition, the cruelty of fate, and the darkness lurking beneath his picturesque surroundings lead him over the edge of despair into ultimate destruction?  

You probably know the answer. But the strength of this film, where integrity, generosity and the power of community defeats deceit, greed and a lust for power, is that knowing the end doesn’t matter. It never gets old, watching the life story of our flawed but thoroughly decent hero. We laugh and cheer at his triumphs. We ache and cry with him in his moments of darkness. We long to descend into the picture as Clarence, his guardian angel, descends from heaven to save his soul. 

Come experience this beautiful picture once again at the Senate. We’ll see you there! 

The Senate Theater and The Detroit Theater Organ Society, a non-profit and all-volunteer organization, is supported in part by The Michigan Arts and Culture Council and The National Endowment for the Arts. 

Parking is available in our gated lot, on Gilbert, and Michigan Avenue

Rope (1948) 75th Anniversary Screening 

Sat. Mar. 18 

Doors – 7:00 PM 

Organ Overture – 7:30 PM 

Film – 8:00 PM 

Tickets - $6 

1hr 20min | PG | Crime/Thriller | USA 

It just takes a plan. A brilliant, meticulous plan, hatched within a brilliant, meticulous mind. With that, one could get away with just about anything . . . even murder.  

That, or you might just be able to pull off the impressive feat of film technique and dramatic flair that is Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope.  

In this classic bit of Hitchcock suspense, the action proceeds in real time, in long, fluid shots, entirely within the luxurious Manhattan apartment of Brandon Shaw and Philip Morgan, two wealthy and sophisticated young men. Brandon and Philip are throwing a small dinner party but with one guest conspicuously absent — their “friend” David, who they strangled in the opening shot and stashed inside the large wooden chest around which all the other guests wonder, “where can he be?” And they did it for the simple reason of proving that they could get away with it, on account of their, “superiority.” 

Loosely based on the Leopold and Loeb murder of 1924, Rope is a cinematic experiment about an intellectual exercise taken to the ultimate, violent extreme. It stars Hitchcock regular and Hollywood legend, James Stewart alongside a chilling John Dall and an unravelling Farley Granger as the murderous hosts.  

Don’t let yourself be the one who everyone is missing, and make sure you make it to see Rope at the Senate! 

The Senate Theater and The Detroit Theater Organ Society is supported by The Michigan Arts and Culture Council and The National Endowment for the Arts.