The MVTimes editorial on the start of Spring had some great observations about the Capawock renovations.

Check out this exciting article on the renovations at both theaters from the Vineyard Gazette!

Check out this exciting blog on the reopening of the theaters by Guinevere Cramer!

One agreement is signed and a second is set to be finished next week that will allow two historic Vineyard movie theatres to be restored and reopened in time for the start of the summer season, organizers say.

Theater Foundation agrees to 20-year deal for Capawock, Strand Theatres. All sides hailed a collaboration they said would breathe new life into the theaters, and expand the Island’s cultural venues.

"The year I saw the movie theater closed, doors shut, I thought - oh, they are doing some repairs, ok. But they didn't open. They haven't opened. The strand sits there teasing me with its grand beautiful entrance but no movies are shown." -Kharma Isis

"The prospect that life might return to the Strand Theatre in Oak Bluffs and the Capawock Theatre in Vineyard Haven is good news. These stars, now dimmed, have been removed from the Island's constellation of good times too long."

A few years ago, when the Strand and Capawock cinemas closed their doors, life on Martha’s Vineyard suddenly became a little less appealing.

In just one week, a fledgling campaign to revive two historic movie theatres has raised more than a third of its $1 million goal. Mark Snider, an Edgartown hotelier who last week announced the creation of a new nonprofit to renovate and lease the Strand and Capawock cinemas, said he had collected $350,000 in pledges since last Friday. “So far, the response has just been remarkable,” Mr. Snider told the Gazette by phone Thursday morning.