Strand Theatre (Marietta, Georgia)

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Strand Theatre, officially the Earl and Rachel Smith Strand Theatre, is a nonprofit performing arts and film center in Marietta, Georgia. It sits at 117 North Park Square and has a seating capacity of 531. The venue opened on September 24, 1935, as an Art Deco movie palace built by the Manning-Winks Theatre Company, costing about $150,000. The theater closed in 1976 and later reopened in 2009 after community efforts by Friends of The Strand, Inc. In 2017, Earl Smith donated $500,000 toward a capital campaign in honor of his late wife, Rachel, and the theater was renamed the Earl and Rachel Smith Strand Theatre. The building is owned by Philip Goldstein and operated by Friends of The Strand, Inc., and it hosts live theatre, classic films, concerts, comedy, and other events.