When did "going to the theater" become wrong?

[Boomer]

The old-time fundamentalist preachers were not against movie theaters. They were against movies. But, as you have correctly pointed out, there was not a means to watch movies anywhere other than at a theater, hence the preaching against the theater.

And moral opposition to the movie house is a direct descendant of moral opposition to the playhouse.

And, of course, for a long time movie theatres were rather tawdry. It's only in the past few decades that they've become clean, comfortable auditoriums suitable for business meetings and run by major corporations.

I knew about the perception Shakespeare's contemporaries held of him, but I did not make that connection to our more modern times. I stand corrected.

Didn't Spurgeon disagree with Joseph Parker about attending the theater?