Podtalk: Clayton Stamper on Wayfarer Theaters Highland Park Grand Opening, May 31, 2024

Submitted by PatrickMcD on May 30, 2024 - 7:26pm

CHICAGO – There is a new movie theater in Chicagoland’s Highland Park, with the Grand Opening of Wayfarer Theaters at 1850 2nd Street. On May 31st, the official start of a new era in theatergoing in Highland Park begins, with multiple screenings of “Ezra” from the theater’s sister company, Wayfarer Studios. For complete information on these FREE SCREENINGS and the theater, click WAYFARER.

Wayfarer Theaters Highland Park will open the space as a multi-use facility for films, live events, and conversation, following extensive renovations to the street-level lobby and second floor gallery, along with updates to auditoriums to provide an enhanced audience experience. The theater will also retain the spaces that were modernized in 2023, with luxury reclining seating options in two of the five auditoriums and an inviting café area that was added to the second floor.

May 31st, 2024
Photo credit: WayfarerTheaters.com

The Grand Opening free screenings of “Ezra” involves an autistic boy (William Fitzgerald) in New York City who is being co-raised by his divorced parents Max (Bobby Cannavale) and Jenna (Rose Byrne). Max is an at-the-brink stand up comedian who lives with his father Stan (Robert De Niro). When Max attacks one of Ezra’s doctors, he is forced into a restraining order, but decides to take matters into his own hands and kidnaps his son, and takes a road trip while learning that he’s landed a gig on the Jimmy Kimmel Show. As law enforcement, his ex-wife and Stan pursue Max and Ezra, the whole situation comes into focus.

In Podtalk with Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com, General Manager Clayton Stamper of Wayfarer Theaters touts the Grand Opening …

In video clip, GM Stamper provides the pitch …

The Grand Opening of Wayfarer Theaters Highland Park takes place on May 31st, 2024, with complimentary screenings of “Ezra,” at 1850 2nd Street, Highland Park, Illinois. Click the link above for ticket purchase and information.