3. The Museum of the Moving Image – Astoria, Queens
The Museum of the Moving Image is not a theater in the most typical sense. It was opened in 1988 as the American Museum of the Moving Image, and maintains a collection of television, film, and digital medium. Its theater, designed by Thomas Leeser, is the newest one on this list, opened in 2011, and is named the Sumner M. Redstone Theater in 2013 after a donation given by the Sumner M. Redstone Charitable Foundation. Seeing the place alone is worth the trip, but while you’re there catch the exhibit Matthew Weiner’s Mad Men and step onto the actual sets of the hit television show.