Apollo Theatre

Oberlin, United States

4.5

Closed now

11 reviews

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+1 440-774-3920
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clevelandcinemas.com
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19 E College St, Oberlin, OH, 44074
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Today 4:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Closed now
Local time (Oberlin) 12:55 PM Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Business hours

Monday 4:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Tuesday 4:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Wednesday 4:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Thursday 4:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Friday 4:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Saturday 12:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Sunday 12:00 pm – 10:00 pm

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11 reviews of Apollo Theatre

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Place rating: 5
Philadelphia, PA
A reasonably priced theater with a friendly staff! They may not have many choices for movies but they show the popular ones (I saw both Inside Out and Star Wars: The Force Awakens here). Definitely worth the trip out to Oberlin from the Cleveland area!
Place rating: 5
Elyria, OH
I frequently come to this theater with my family. I’ve never once encountered a rude employee here, all very friendly and eager to serve a customer. The prices for a ticket are great and keep me coming back each time. The prices for snacks aren’t outrageous either and the Monday deals are even better. The theater rooms are clean, if anything I’d ask for different more comfortable seating.
Place rating: 4
San Antonio, TX
Great local place to catch films. Wish they had more indie offerings and special screenings like live theater and opera broadcasts. I would think that the college town could support this.
Place rating: 3
Cleveland, OH
Fun if you like old-​style theaters. It’s also the only theater in town (the next closest is about 20 minutes away). Now that the school owns it, the entry is $ 4, instead of $ 2 (gasp!), and they have retrofitted it – but they didn’t touch the old seats, which, while they give great atmosphere, are not exceedingly comfortable. Movies also tend to arrive a bit faster now, however still not opening-​night, maybe more like 2nd weekend.
Sing-​along Labyrinth: great. Sing-​along Rocky Horror, with hosts: awful (and I love RHPS).
Place rating: 5
Brooklyn, NY
I hear that since the college renovated this theater, it’s not the same. Therefore this five star review is only for my memories, depicted here in the second person:
The old art deco theater is packed with people you vaguely know. There is only one movie playing. It kind of sucks, but the ticket is only three dollars. Halfway through the film, an empty forty bottle falls onto the floor. The crowd goes wild. You are proud to be an American.
Place rating: 4
Norman, OK
I’ve only been to the Apollo Theatre since the new renovations were completed in the fall of 2009. The prices are really low, both for movies and for food. The adult ticket price is $ 5, and Thursday night shows are only $ 3. The seating is old and comfortable, and it’s a really great place to see a movie.
It’s a one-​screen theater, and my main complaint with the Apollo is that they keep the same movie on for two or three weeks at a time. For a town this small that seems like a bad business plan, because once I’ve seen a movie there I won’t go again until there’s a new one. This means I only go every few weeks, even though I live a block away. Plus, sometimes the movie choices seem badly matched to a college town.
Overall it’s a theater that I love going to, and hate that I often end of driving to Elyria to see a movie due to the poor selection at the Apollo.
Place rating: 4
Sacramento, CA
This review is after Oberlin College take-​over.
The pluses about going to the Apollo is that it is cheap and offers first-​run films most of the time. The downside is that it is only one-​screen but sometimes they offer several first-​run films at different time (usually with kids movie in the day and other films at night, with an occasional midnight showing of cult-​classics and first-​run films). With recent renovations to the theater, this place would have gotten a five star instead of four, but the college decided to ruin the environment and history of the theater by renovating it and ruining its nice, comfortable environment. Though, the cheap prices still leads me to give this a four star and because it now offers first-​run movies.
Place rating: 4
ASTORIA, NY
I love the Apollo for three dollars a ticket (two dollars tuesdays/​thursdays) and its occasionally good movies. Last year, they got all the Oscar stuff, so the selection really ain’t half bad. Everyone brings in 40s, and the sound of a 40 rolling down the aisle is a well known Oberlin sound effect. Why four stars? The sound in the theater is terrible, and good luck reading the subtitles if anyone sits in front of you. Do yourself a favor and only see foreign films on off nights.
Place rating: 5
Sunset Park, NY
Suddenly I find myself disappointed when I go to a movie and don’t hear bottles clattering and drunken laughter every 5 minutes. The Apollo is a gem.
Place rating: 5
San Francisco, CA
Four dollars for a movie! You can’t beat it. The Apollo was usually a date destination, and for four bucks a ticket, –no one minded paying. My most memorable experience to date, was watching Unbreakable. It was one of the worst movies I had seen in awhile, and everyone in the theater shared the same thoughts. At every critical dramatic point; each sucking more and more as it went along, there were ripples of laughter throughout the theater. Near the end, people were yelling stuff out. The movie was able to redeem itself, just by the insults slugged at it from the rickety seats of the Apollo. Ten bucks fifty — it better be a damn good movie. The Apollo gave you leeway; you watched it just because.
Place rating: 5
San Francisco, CA
Smell that? That’s decades of old popcorn oil you’re smelling. The movie selection isn’t much fresher either. But it’s ok! You’re supposed to be writing your paper analyzing Hegel through the lens of modern non-​traditional Indonesian feminist theory, so you shouldn’t be down here anyway. Just sit back and enjoy the wickedness of blowing off your work in a timeworn movie house, knowing that the very seats where you and your date are engaging in some very handsy foolishness have hosted probably millions of collegiate and townie asses, all doing the same thing.