Clark County’s homegrown Journey Theater is on a different kind of quest these days: remodeling a large, aging church building in rural Clark County so it can double as a working community theater.

The Newport Beach Planning Commission backed plans to demolish the decades-old theater in favor of two residential condo towers.

The former home of The Screen art-house cinema on Santa Fe’s midtown campus is now the site of Sky Cinemas Midtown, a ...