Blue Mouse Theatre

Blue Mouse Theatre WA's Longest Operating Movie Theater
Celebrating 100+ Years!!
~ Now Serving 🍻 & 🍷 ~

OPEN:
Matinees: Fri - Sun
Evenings: Fri - Mon
(1182)

On Tuesday evening, November 13, 1923, John Hamrick’s Blue Mouse Theatre had its Grand Opening on Proctor Street. It was named after a lounge in Paris, France, which showed the latest rage, ‘flicks’.

“A spectacular melodrama” called The Green Goddess was the first ‘picture show’ projected on the theatre’s ‘silent screen’. The headline in the Tacoma News Tribune called it the “Finest Suburban Theater in the Northwest”. The account in the newspaper the next day stated that “every one of the 420 seats was occupied and a good sized overflow greeted the management”. The community theater prospered and in 1932 it was purchased by Will Conner and renamed the Proctor Theater. Forty years later, in 1972, he sold it and it was eventually renamed the Bijou in 1980. Threatened by a proliferation of huge theater chain multiplexes, hard times fell upon neighborhood movie theaters in the late 80s and 90s. In 1993 a small group of activists and preservationists, fearing that a plan to “re-adapt” the theater into office space might become the buildings fate, joined together to purchase and restore the property. To this day they call themselves the Blue Mouse Associates. Under layers of paint, wood veneer and glass tiles put on in the ‘30s and ‘40s they discovered the original Craftsman-style timbering, stucco, brick pillars, globe light sconces, polished marble terrazzo and original mahogany doors. The same was the case with interior renovation. The theater’s original architectural charm was rediscovered in craftsmen staircases, chandelier surround, an ornate trellis around the proscenium arch, decorated capitals atop side wall columns and Tiffany-style glass exit signs. At eighty five, and one of the very oldest continuously operating movie theaters in the country, The Blue Mouse continues on with sights on her hundredth birthday.

10/05/2026

Get your tickets today the long awaited Heart of the Beast opens at the Blue Mouse Friday October 9th

10/01/2026

This is the sign you needed 👊💥Just one more weekend to catch FORGOTTEN ISLAND at The Blue Mouse.

📽️ Showings:
Fri. Oct 2 - Mon. Oct 5

🕰️ Showtimes:
Matinee (Fri - Sun): 4:00pm
Evening (Fri - Mon): 7:00pm

🎟️ Tickets:
Matinee: $10 Adult | $8 Child
Evening: $12 Adult | $10 Child
Mondays: $8 for everyone!
*Open Captions on all Sunday showings

♿️ Wheelchair Accessible Seating
💬 Closed Captioning & Assistive Listening Devices available upon request

10/01/2026
Is it even spooky season if you haven’t watched HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA at least once? 🦇We’re showing it on the big screen th...
09/27/2026

Is it even spooky season if you haven’t watched HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA at least once? 🦇

We’re showing it on the big screen this Saturday, and it’s FREE!

Fun fact: Drac’s cape had about 100 animation controls so it could react to his mood, almost like its own character. Next time he gets dramatic, watch the cape. It’s acting just as hard as he is 🤣

Round up your little monsters and come hang out with us. It’s rated PG and runs about an hour and a half, perfect for little attention spans. The popcorn will be popping 🍿

📽️ Sat, Oct 3 • 11am

A big thank-you to our neighbors at The Proctor Mercantile for making this one free for everybody 💙

Just a handful of tickets left to TONIGHT’S ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW with BlueMouseketeers 🫦As we continue to honor Tim...
09/26/2026

Just a handful of tickets left to TONIGHT’S ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW with BlueMouseketeers 🫦

As we continue to honor Tim Curry and celebrate the unforgettable legacy of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, there will more chances to join us for ROCKY HORROR at The Blue Mouse 💋

📽️ Showings:
Sat. Oct 10
Sat. Oct 24
Sat. Oct 31 🎃

🕰️ Showtime:
11:30pm

🎟️ Don’t dream it, book it at bluemousetheatre.com

09/26/2026

Don’t worry, she’s got this….probably. FORGOTTEN ISLAND now playing at your favorite Proctor theater 💙

📽️ Showings:
Fri. Sept 25 - Mon. Sept 28
Fri. Oct 2 - Mon. Oct 5

🕰️ Showtimes:
Matinee (Fri - Sun): 4:00pm
Evening (Fri - Mon): 7:00pm

🎟️ Tickets:
Matinee: $10 Adult | $8 Child
Evening: $12 Adult | $10 Child
Mondays: $8 for everyone!
*Open Captions on all Sunday showings

♿️ Wheelchair Accessible Seating
💬 🎧 Closed Captioning & Assistive Listening Devices available upon request

🎬 Tacoma filmmaker Jonathon Croom is bringing the Tacoma premiere of COME WITH ME to The Blue Mouse.Starring Ron Perlman...
09/23/2026

🎬 Tacoma filmmaker Jonathon Croom is bringing the Tacoma premiere of COME WITH ME to The Blue Mouse.

Starring Ron Perlman and Ronnie Gene Blevins, the crime thriller follows a working-class man whose life begins to unravel after a home invasion, trouble at work, and the death of his best friend. Influenced by the rhetoric of a radio host, he turns to violence to confront what he sees as injustice.

A graduate of Tacoma’s School of the Arts, Jonathon decided at 15 that he was going to make films and began studying the craft. At 19, he moved to Los Angeles, where he went on to work at Warner Bros., Universal, and CBS on productions ranging from kitchen Nightmares to Dancing with the Stars.

Today, he still calls Tacoma home 💙

🎥 COME WITH ME
Thu. Sep 24 at 7:00pm

🎤 Q&A with writer Jonathan Croom following the film

Address

2611 N Proctor Street
Tacoma, WA
98407

Opening Hours

Monday 6pm - 10pm
Friday 6pm - 10pm
Saturday 2pm - 10pm
Sunday 2pm - 10pm

Telephone

+12537529500

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