Barry Eckhaus/barryeckhaus.com
The Capitol Theatre in Eagle is ramping up to pre-COVID-19 attendance levels, building renewed faith among theater ownership and loyal patrons that the cinema industry is here to stay.
As the months of the COVID-19 pandemic stretched on and other local businesses scrambled to tweak business models to retain revenue, Eagle’s Capitol Theatre remained shuttered from March 2020 until just two weeks ago.
In the meantime, sweatpants became the collective uniform and streaming services tightened their grip on the public’s consumption of movies, leading some to speculate that the pandemic could mean the end of movie theaters altogether.