[8] The theater under Meyer showed older films, in double or triple features, generally for a single night, but sometimes for a week at a time.

[9] The UC started its daily rotation with two features (Day for Night, by Truffaut and 8½, by Fellini) on April 1, 1976, just 48 hours after its last shows as a first-run movie theater.

[10] Along with the Rialto, Telegraph and Northside theaters in Berkeley, it was one of the main venues in the East Bay for showing both domestic and foreign film classics.

[12] The theater closed in March 2001 after Landmark—now owned by Silver Cinemas, Inc.—decided to pull out of the space rather than spend its half of the $500,000 needed for seismic upgrades required for the unreinforced masonry building in the wake of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake (the UC was designed and built in 1916-17, preceding the 1933 California ban on unreinforced masonry buildings).

[3][7] The UC had been "marginally profitable" prior to its closure due to low attendance, and the theater had switched to weeklong runs rather than daily rotations in the fall of 2000.

[16] The conversion was led by the Berkeley Music Group, a non-profit organization headed by Mayeri, and would result in accommodations for 800 to 1,400 patrons in front of an expanded stage, and a new restaurant and bar.

[18] Instead, Trombone Shorty was scheduled to open the venue the next night, on Saturday, March 26,[19] but his show was also canceled amid technical issues.

[20] The theatre finally reopened its doors on April 7, 2016 with Dark Star Orchestra as a long awaited opening act that night.

[22] In 1984, Cicely Tyson spoke at an event in her honor at the theater that was hosted by Northern California Women in Film and TV.