{"id":279628,"date":"2026-09-05T10:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T10:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/279628\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T10:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T10:32:09","slug":"ritz-five-theater-reopens-in-philadelphias-old-city-neighborhood-after-being-shut-down-for-safety-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/279628\/","title":{"rendered":"Ritz Five theater reopens in Philadelphia&#8217;s Old City neighborhood after being shut down for safety violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6abc Digital Staff Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788604329_919_16248352_2024-wpvi-generic-6abc-logo-on-white-background-img-v3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Saturday, September 5, 2026 9:30AM<\/p>\n<p>Ritz Five theater reopens in Philadelphia&#8217;s Old City neighborhood after being shut down for safety violations<\/p>\n<p>WPVI<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; The Ritz Five movie theater in Philadelphia&#8217;s Old City section has reopened, just in time for Labor Day weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In a post on social media Friday, the theater said it is once again showing movies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The theater at the corner of Walnut and Dock Streets was ordered last month to cease operations, until it could obtain an electrical permit and install a fire alarm system in the building.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday, September 5, 2026 9:30AM Ritz Five theater reopens in Philadelphia&#8217;s Old City neighborhood after being shut down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116978,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-279628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-116978","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}