Owned by the Cape Cod Center for the Arts, it specializes in independent American and international film, simulcasts of the Metropolitan Opera and National Theatre, and live music performances.

[3] The building's exterior was designed by Alfred Easton Poor and modelled after the South Congregational Church in Centerville, Massachusetts.

[4] The auditorium is designed in the Art Deco style and includes 317 armchairs of black lacquer and tangerine suede produced by the Frankl Galleries in New York City.

In 2008, it launched a live music series that has hosted artists such as Bon Iver, Dirty Projectors, Glen Hansard, Saint Vincent, The Paper Kites, Tift Merritt, Martha Wainwright and Pat Fee.

[1] Kent said he did not paint and oversee the work himself because he refused to visit Massachusetts after the Sacco and Vanzetti execution of 1927.