Blindspotting with Daveed Diggs & Jasmine Cephas Jones

6:00PM: Doors Open  |  7:00PM: Screening & Talkback

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 will be a special presentation of two episodes of the 2021 Starz series Blindspotting starring Jasmine Cephas Jones and co-created by Daveed Diggs. The episodes run a total of 1 hour and are rated TV-MA. Stay after the screening for a post-show discussion between Daveed Diggs, Jasmine Cephas Jones, and Lin-Manuel Miranda. 

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

JASMINE CEPHAS JONES is an American-British actress, singer and producer. Currently, Jasmine is filming the upcoming DC Studios series, LANTERNS for HBO. Most recently, she appeared alongside Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor in a scene stealing role in Ava DuVernay's ORIGIN. She can also be seen in her starring role on STARZ’ BLINDSPOTTING, on which she also served as producer. Jasmine got her start playing the roles of Peggy Schuyler and Maria Reynolds in the original iteration of the Tony winning musical HAMILTON. She won a GRAMMY for her vocals on the musical's accompanying album. She next went on to star on QUIBI’s #FREERAYSHAWN opposite Laurence Fishburne, which earned her an Emmy award. Jones additional credits include the film version of BLINDSPOTTING, as well Stella Meghie’s THE PHOTOGRAPH, Reinaldo Marcus Green’s MONSTERS AND MEN and Mark Williams’s HONEST THIEF alongside Liam Neeson. On the TV front, her additional credits include HBO’s MRS. FLETCHER and Lena Dunham’s GIRLS. In the music world, her album, PHOENIX and EP, BLUE BIRD are both available for streaming. Jasmine is also featured on Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop concept album, WARRIORS. 

United Palace History: 

The ornate United Palace opened in 1930 as the Loew's 175th Street Theatre, a deluxe movie theater and vaudeville house, the last of the five Wonder Theaters in New York City and New Jersey. Its first act as a movie theater ended in April 1969 with a screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey. 

With a groundswell of community support and our good friend, patron, and neighbor Lin-Manuel Miranda, movies returned to the United Palace in 2013. Since then, we have screened over 100 feature films, from world premieres (In the Heights, Halftime, and Rebecca as part of the Tribeca Festival) to all-time classics (It's A Wonderful Life), and community favorites (Mad Hot Ballroom). 

Our goal is to have the cinematic experience come alive for audiences too used to watching movies on their phones or TVs. 

One of our highest compliments came from Robert DeNiro who, speaking before a 50th anniversary screening of The Godfather, described watching a movie at the United Palace as: “The moviegoing experience doesn't get any better.” 

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.