Wellmont Theater

Mel Hyman says all the "huffing and puffing about how great the theater and the arts plaza are for Montclair is a bunch of nonsense."

Community members gathered to celebrate at the grand opening of the plaza, first approved four years ago.

Montclair Film Festival begins Thursday — and this week marks the return of the Claridge.

Wellmont requires vaccination or a recent negative PCR test.

They'll also require masks indoors.

The theater has several shows scheduled through the rest of the year and into 2022, including two this month.

Vanguard and the Morris Orchestra keeping an eye on the situation as fall seasons approach.

A show scheduled for June 4 still appears to be on, even though one for June 2 has been bumped.

By DEBORAH ANN TRIPOLDI tripoldi@montclairlocal.news Fans packed the Wellmont Theater to see Collective Soul, the band who defined alternative-rock in the ’90s, on Saturday, Sept. 21. Lead singer E. Roland and the rest of the group, Dean Roland, Jesse Triplett, Johnny Rabb, and Will Turpin had the crowd moving. E...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news If there was one thing that the audience —- both inside the Wellmont Theater, and watching from movie theaters around the country — took away from Tuesday night’s Q&A with the stars of “Tolkien,” it is this: J.R.R. Tolkien’s name is not pronou...