Workhouse Arts Center Brings Drive-In Movies: Socially Distanced Flicks for the Family

The Workhouse Arts Center is offering Drive-In Movies: Socially Distanced Flicks for the Family on campus every Friday and Saturday through August 2020. The Drive-In Movie Theatre will be set up with a 40-foot screen on campus and will be limited to 75 vehicles at $30 per vehicle. All tickets will be purchased online and parking location will be on a first-come, first-served basis.  Showtime is 9:00 pm and gates open at 8:15 pm. Continue reading

Drive-in Movie Theater In Lorton Opens For family-Friendly Entertainment

The Workhouse Arts Center will be presenting movie entertainment for the whole family adapting to the special circumstances of COVID-19 with the need for social distancing. This will be done with drive-in movies on the Workhouse campus. The drive-in movies will bring back what was once a staple of summertime entertainment throughout Northern Virginia and the nation. The first weekend will feature “Beetlejuice” on Friday, June 12, and ”Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” on Saturday, June 13. Continue reading

Mosaic District, in 1954

The Lee Highway Drive-In opened August 26, 1954 with a capacity for 1,000 cars. One entrance was on Lee Highway and the other on Gallows Road. This drive-in later had a capacity for 1,350 cars. The Lee Highway Drive-In closed in 1984 and was replaced by a multiplex theater. leeee moovies.
Lee Highway Drive-in
Lee Highway Drive-in