Tribeca Film Festival's Opening Night Is Coming To Wash Heights

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NY — The Tribeca Film Festival is doing things a little differently in 2021 by using multiple venues all across the city for screenings of this year's films. The festival will kick off on June 9 with a world premiere screening of "In the Heights" at the United Palace Theater in Washington Heights and across the other outdoor festival venues simultaneously.

The United Palace Theater is located at 4140 Broadway, in between West 175th and 176th Streets.

The Jon Chu-directed screen adaptation of the Tony Award-winning Broadway show, created and produced by Washington Height's own Lin-Manuel Miranda, has generated a tremendous amount of buzz and excitement — nowhere more than in Upper Manhattan.

"Our founding mission is even more relevant today and we wanted to ensure that we could reach all corners of New York," said Tribeca Festival Co-Founder and CEO Jane Rosenthal in a news release. "Tribeca was started to bring people together, and that's what we aim to do again this year, to connect communities across all five boroughs and share our festival experience, safely, while supporting local businesses."

The 2021 festival will take place across 12 days and incorporate multiple locations with 250-plus screenings, talks, and performances. The festival expects to host up to 100,000 guests at its various outdoor screening venues.

The Tribeca Film Festival's final night on June 19 will take place in Radio City Music Hall at 100 percent capacity with a fully vaccinated audience. More details about the screening for the closing night will be announced soon.

Here are the Manhattan venue locations:

• The Battery
• Waterfront Place at Brookfield Place
• Hudson Yards
• Pier 76 in Hudson River Park
• Spring Studios
• United Palace Theater

All the opening night screenings of "In The Heights" are sold out, but you can find out more about how the festival is presenting the movie on Tribeca Film's website. You can find more general information about the festival here.