Jackson Theatre

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

80’s Classics

In this third installment of the Indiana Jones saga, Indy's chance discovery of a detailed diary reunites him with his long-lost archaeologist father. Both seek to uncover the whereabouts of the fabled Holy Grail while contending with an alluring undercover Nazi agent. Look for a prequel sequence demonstrating how a then-teenaged Indy got his phobia of snakes.

Rated PG-13

Running Time 127 minutes 

Every Friday May through September Music on the Square is on Main Street. The street will be closed starting at 6 pm. If you have questions about parking, you can visit: https://www.jonesboroughtn.org/parking-in-jonesborough/

Bee Movie (2007)

Family Series

 A worker bee who alights from the hive to bee-friend a human bee-ing.

Rating PG

Running Time 82 minutes 

Pay What You Can

Bumblebee (2018)

Charlie finds a beat-up Volkswagen in a friend's junkyard which she then receives as a birthday present. As she tries to repair the car, she accidentally re-activates the Autobot known as Bumblebee. They soon discover, however, that the Decepticons are in close pursuit and Bumblebee is tasked with protecting Charlie and planet Earth.

Rating PG-13

Running Time 113 minutes 

Uncle Buck (1989)

Wacky Wednesday

A cheerful oaf is called on as a last resort to care for his brother's kids in a crisis.

Rating PG

Running Time 100 minutes 

Oklahoma! (1955)

Western Series

 At the turn of the century, a cowboy and an aggressive farm hand compete for the affection of an Oklahoma farm girl. Adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical classic.

Rating G

Running Time 145 minutes 

Pay What You Can

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)

Wizardly World of Jonesborough

Adaptation of the first of J.K. Rowling's popular children's novels about Harry Potter, a boy who learns on his eleventh birthday that he is the orphaned son of two powerful wizards and possesses unique magical powers of his own. He is summoned from his life as an unwanted child to become a student at Hogwarts, an English boarding school for wizards. There, he meets several friends who become his closest allies and help him discover the truth about his parents' mysterious deaths at the hands of a powerful adversary.

Rating PG

Running Time 150 minutes 

Every Friday May through September Music on the Square is on Main Street. The street will be closed starting at 6 pm. If you have questions about parking, you can visit: https://www.jonesboroughtn.org/parking-in-jonesborough/

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

Wizardly World of Jonesborough

The next installment in the Harry Potter series finds young wizard Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) and his friends Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson) facing new challenges during their second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as they try to uncover a dark force that is terrorizing the school.

Rating PG

Running Time 160 minutes 

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

Wizardly World of Jonesborough

In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and his friends Ron and Hermione return as teenagers to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for their third year of study, where they delve into the mystery surrounding an escaped prisoner who seems to pose a dangerous threat to Harry.

Rating PG

Running Time 142 minutes 

The Trouble with Harry (1955)

Hitchcock Film Festival - Celebrating His Birthday!

A peaceful Vermont village is turned upside down when a man's body is discovered in a meadow. While there is no single suspect, everyone in town seems to have an idea who killed the man - and many of them believe they may have done it themselves.

Rating PG

Running Time 99 minutes  

Vertigo (1958)

Hitchcock Film Festival - Celebrating His Birthday

A retired cop, afflicted with acrophobia, agrees to shadow the wife of an old acquaintance, who fears that she may be suicidal.

Rating PG

Running Time 129 minutes 

Rear Window (1954)

Hitchcock Film Festival - Celebrating His Birthday

A New York magazine photographer is confined to his apartment after breaking his leg. He passes the time by spying on his neighbors from his window, and suspicious goings-on in one of the apartments lead him to believe that someone has been murdered.

Rating PG

Running Time 112 minutes 

Every Friday May through September Music on the Square is on Main Street. The street will be closed starting at 6 pm. If you have questions about parking, you can visit: https://www.jonesboroughtn.org/parking-in-jonesborough/

North by Northwest (1959)

Hitchcock Film Festival - Celebrating His Birthday

Cary Grant stars as an innocent man mistaken for a spy in one of director Alfred Hitchcock's greatest thrillers. While leaving New York's Plaza Hotel, advertising executive Roger Thornhill (Grant) has the misfortune of standing just as the name "George Kaplan" is paged--starting a lethal case of mistaken identity and a nonstop game of cat and mouse as he is pursued across North America by espionage agents trying to kill him--and by police who suspect him of murder.

Rating TV-PG

Running Time 136 minutes 

The Birds (1963)

Hitchcock Film Festival - Celebrating His Birthday

Director Alfred Hitchcock's apocalyptic, allegorical thriller centers on an avian assault on a California coastal town, where ferocious fowl fall upon a chicken farmer, a schoolyard full of children and a socialite.

Rating PG-13

Running Time 119 minutes 

Psycho (1960)

Hitchcock Film Festival - Celebrating His Birthday

Alfred Hitchcock thriller about a psychotic motel owner who obsesses over his late, controlling mother while becoming the prime suspect in a murder case involving one of his recent guests; a pretty secretary who checked into the Bates Motel after impulsively stealing $40,000 and never checked out.

Rating R

Running Time 108 minutes 

Wayne’s World (1992)

Wacky Wednesday

Best friends Wayne and Garth are hired to host their public access show professionally. Wayne falls for Cassandra, the lead singer in a metal band, and must contend with a handsome network executive who plans to ruin their show and steal away Cassandra. Based on the iconic SNL skit.

Rating PG-13

Running Time 95 minutes 

Forrest Gump (1994)

90’s classics

Six Oscars, including Best Picture and Actor (Tom Hanks), went to this extraordinary tale of a simple man who unwittingly becomes involved in some of the key moments of the 20th century. Meanwhile, as the remarkable parade of his life goes by, Forrest never forgets Jenny, the girl he loved as a boy, who makes her own journey through the turbulence of the 1960s and '70s that is far more troubled than the path Forrest happens upon.

Rating PG-13

Running Time 142 minutes 

Stand by Me (1986)

80’s classics

A coming-of-age tale about four 12-year-old boys who hear that there is a dead body in the woods near where they live and proceed to try and find it. In the process, their friendship is tested.

Rating R

Running Time 87 minutes 

Every Friday May through September Music on the Square is on Main Street. The street will be closed starting at 6 pm. If you have questions about parking, you can visit: https://www.jonesboroughtn.org/parking-in-jonesborough/

Join us for Chatham County Line at the Jackson Theatre on August 23, 2025 at 8pm.

Launched a little more than twenty years ago in Raleigh, North Carolina, Chatham County Line built a devoted local following on the strength of their genre-bending live show—an intoxicating blend of bluegrass, folk, country, and rock and roll—before breaking out internationally with their 2003 self-titled debut. In the years to come, the band would go on to release eight more critically acclaimed studio albums, top the Billboard Bluegrass Chart four times, collaborate with the likes of Judy Collins, Sharon Van Etten, and Norwegian star Jonas Fjeld, earn two gold records in Norway (where they were also twice nominated for the Spellemannprisen, Norway’s equivalent of a Grammy), and share bills with everyone from Guy Clark and Lyle Lovett to Steve Martin& Martin Short and The Avett Brothers. NPR hailed the group as “a bridge between bluegrass traditions and a fresh interpretation of those influences,” while Uncut lauded their “powerful melodies and gorgeous harmonies,” and Pitchfork dubbed their music “timeless.” The band’s latest release, Hiyo, marks the band’s first release since the departure of their longtime banjo player and serves as something of a reintroduction to the roots stalwarts, complete with new sounds, new collaborators, and a whole new lease on life. Recorded at Asheville’s Echo Mountain studio with co-producer/engineer Rachael Moore(Kacey Musgraves, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss), the collection finds the trio—Dave Wilson (lead singer/guitarist), John Teer (fiddle/mandolin) and Greg Readling (bass/pedal steel), embracing change at every turn, experimenting with fresh sonic palettes and innovative approaches to their core instrumentation. The songwriting remains classic Chatham County Line here—rich, evocative tales of love and heartbreak, joy and sorrow, righteousness and revenge—but the settings have evolved to incorporate synthesizers, drum machines, and more electric guitar and percussion than ever before. Given the group’s string band roots and decades spent singing around a single microphone, the results are nothing short of revelatory, taking an enduring sound and injecting it with a thrilling new spirit of discovery and vitality.

Going My Way (1944)

Cinema Classics - Celebrating The Jackson Theatre 80^th Anniversary Week!

Best Picture winner tells the tale of a warmhearted young priest who starts a choir with the tough local kids when he is assigned to a parish overseen by a conservative older priest who has little interest in new ideas. Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald, as the younger and older clerics, respectively, won Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, and Leo McCarey also won for Best Director. The tune "Swingin' on a Star" was awarded Best Song.

Rating NR

Running Time 126 minutes 

The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)

Cinema Classics - Celebrating The Jackson Theatre 80th Anniversary Week!

A friendly rivalry between a happy-go-lucky priest and a no-nonsense, by-the-book nun at a Catholic school helps to expand the institution in this Best Picture nominee that's a sequel to 1944's "Going My Way."

Rating TV-G

Running Time 126 minutes 

To Have and Have Not (1944)

Cinema Classics - Celebrating The Jackson Theatre 80th Anniversary Week!

A charter-boat owner agrees to a smuggling deal in an effort to help an attractive pickpocket get back to America, but when a friend is taken hostage and pumped for information, he must come to his rescue.

Rating NR

Running Time 100 minutes 

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

Cinema Classics - Celebrating The Jackson Theatre 80th Anniversary Week!

A vain Victorian man fantastically transfers his mortality onto a painting of himself, which proceeds to age for him, while he remains young and handsome. But as his visage remains beautifully preserved, his heart and soul decay. An adaptation of the Oscar Wilde novel. Angela Lansbury was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar as a jilted dance-hall performer.

Rating TV-G

Running Time 110 minutes 

Every Friday May through September Music on the Square is on Main Street. The street will be closed starting at 6 pm. If you have questions about parking, you can visit: https://www.jonesboroughtn.org/parking-in-jonesborough/