Downtown Las Vegas’s two mob-history institutions have joined forces for the month, letting film buffs and history nerds get a break on admission to both. The Beverly Theater and The Mob Museum have struck a reciprocal discount deal tied to the theater’s annual Mob Month film series, meaning a ticket to a gangster classic on the big screen now comes with a price cut at the real-life courthouse where organized crime once stood trial.
Mob Month movie ticket holders get 20% off admission to The Mob Museum, while Mob Museum wristband or membership card holders get the same 20% discount off any Mob Month screening, according to KSNV. Kip Kelly, Chief Experience Officer of The Beverly Theater, joined Arc Las Vegas for a Mob Month preview to talk up the collaboration, per the same report. The Beverly Theater is bringing iconic crime films back to the big screen this August, and organizers say the pairing is meant to offer both special discounts and, as the station put it, a deep dive into the real-life history behind the movies.
While The Beverly Theater has run Mob Month as an internal screening series in past years, this is the first time the event has become a formal reciprocal partnership with The Mob Museum, according to The Beverly Theater. The two nonprofits sit just blocks apart in Downtown Las Vegas, and the tie-up gives each a built-in audience already primed for mob history and crime cinema.
A Lineup Built for Historical Fact-Checking
The centerpiece of this year’s slate is a screening of Martin Scorsese’s 1990 film Goodfellas on August 26, featuring an introduction and post-film Q&A with Geoff Schumacher, Vice President of Research, Collections and Programs at The Mob Museum, according to Non-Profit News Vegas. Schumacher’s role is to separate mob lore from historical fact for the audience, the outlet reports…