In the Heights with Lin-Manuel Miranda and Christopher Jackson

TICKETS GO ON SALE APRIL 28, 2025 AT 10:00AM

5:30PM: Doors Open, 7:00PM: Movie Screening; 9:30pm Conversation with Lin-Manuel Miranda and Christopher Jackson

FREE ADMISSION with online ticket (ticket policy below) 

Tickets available Monday, April 28 at 10am

 

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Movies at the Palace with Lin-Manuel Miranda presents its 2025 season, celebrating the 10-year anniversary of Hamilton on Broadway with a series of recent films starring the original Broadway cast of the groundbreaking musical.

 

Next up is In the Heights, featuring Christopher Jackson, an original Hamilton who played General Washington. The movie is 2 hours, 23 minutes long and rated PG-13. Christopher and Lin-Manuel will have a talk back after the movie.

 

The screenings with Lin-Manuel Miranda are part of the United Palace’s year-long season of movies focused on the theme of community.

 

Miranda has supported Movies at the United Palace since 2013, when he helped the theatre’s fundraising campaign to purchase a new projector, screen, and surround sound system to return movies to the theatre after a 40-year hiatus. Miranda’s previous series focused on New York City-based titles and, in 2024, "Movies We Missed" due to the 2023 writers’ and actors’ strikes. Past guests include Steven Spielberg, Meryl Streep, Spike Lee, Rita Moreno, Hugh Jackman, Billy Crystal, and Danai Gurira.

  

Movies at the United Palace with Lin-Manuel Miranda is sponsored by the Miranda Family Fund.

 

Christopher Jackson: Christopher Jackson is a Tony Award nominated actor as well as a Grammy and Emmy Award winning songwriter/composer best known for starring as George Washington in the critically acclaimed, award-winning musical, Hamilton, on Broadway and Disney+. Christopher starred on the hit CBS drama Bull which ran for 6 seasons. He can now be seen on HBO Max’s series, And Just Like That… 

 

In early 2021, Christopher starred in Freestyle Love Supreme on Broadway alongside Lin-Manuel Miranda. Additionally, he starred in Ava DuVernay’s Netflix mini-series When They See Us. In December 2018, One Last Time (44 Remix) was released as a part of the Hamildrop series which featured Christopher alongside President Obama and BeBe Winans. His Broadway credits include Holler if Ya Hear Me, After Midnight, The Bronx Bombers, In The Heights, Memphis and The Lion King (Simba). Off Broadway includes Bronx Bombers (Primary Stages), The Jammer (Atlantic Theater Co.), Lonely, I’m Not (Second Stage), In the Heights (37 Arts), and Cotton Club Parade (ENCORES at City Center).

Additional TV and film credits include Freestyle Love Supreme, Person of Interest, A Gifted Man, Fringe, Gossip Girl, Tracers, Afterlife, and In The Heights.

Christopher voiced Where You Are for the Disney film, Moana, and was also the Composer/Songwriter for Sesame Street (7 Emmy nominations and 1 win), and co-Music Supervisor and Writer for The Electric Company (PBS). Christopher won an Emmy Award for his song with Will.I.Am, What I Am. He’ll release his 2nd studio album later this year. 

Christopher has performed sold out concerts all over the U.S. including Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center and a command performance at the White House in 2023.

 

United Palace: The history of the United Palace begins in 1930 when it opened as one of five Loew’s “Wonder Theatres,” premiere vaudeville and movie houses located in four boroughs and New Jersey. The outrageously ornate architecture was designed by noted architect Thomas Lamb (Cort Theater, the former Ziegfeld Theatre) and decorative specialist Harold Rambusch (Waldorf Astoria, Radio City Music Hall).  Noted architecture critic David Dunlap described the ornate interior as “Byzantine-Romanesque-Indo-Hindu-Sino-Moorish-Persian-Eclectic-Rococo-Deco.”  With nearly 3,400 seats the United Palace is Manhattan’s 4th largest theatre. It hosts concerts (Alicia Keys, Lenny Kravitz, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Bad Bunny, Wilco), TV and film shoots (Only Murders in the Building, John Wick 3), movie premieres (Halftime, In the Heights, High Strung - Free Dance), and other corporate and community events. The in-house selection of state-of-the-art technology updates the 1930 opulence for 21st century audiences.     

 

Miranda Family Fund: For over 40 years, the Miranda Family has championed community activism. They have created and supported institutions that have served both underserved populations in Upper Manhattan and communities throughout New York City, across the country, and in Puerto Rico. Luis A. Miranda, Jr. and Dr. Luz Towns-Miranda are proud parents to Luz Miranda-Crespo, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Miguel Towns. Now as adults, Luz and Lin-Manuel are married to Luis Crespo and Vanessa Nadal, respectively, with children of their own. They continue to foster the family’s commitment to advocacy for education, the arts, and social justice - along with a sustained focus on relief and rebuilding efforts in Puerto Rico post-Hurricane Maria.

 

Ticket Policy: General Admission tickets are frequently “sold out” shortly after they become available online, but not everyone who reserves a ticket attends the movie. We are often able to accommodate several hundred guests with Standby tickets, which will be available online after all general admission tickets are taken. Seating is general admission, first come, first served. Ticket does not guarantee admission. Venue reserves all rights to restrict access to the United Palace if in its sole discretion it deems the theatre’s capacity has been reached. On show day, guests with accessibility needs should go to the ADA entrance at the front of the line near the marquee.