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The theater took its name from an actress who worked with Paul Baker, the first director of the Dallas Theater Center. Kalita Humphreys died in a plane crash in 1954 and her parents donated $120,000 to the theater as a memorial. The theater was recognized as a historic city of Dallas landmark in 2007. [4]
The Kessler initially served as a neighborhood movie house, providing entertainment to residents of Oak Cliff and surrounding areas. [3] Gene Autry, who owned several theaters in Oak Cliff, bought it in 1945. [3] A tornado hit the building in 1957, and a fire around 1960 put the theater out of commission. [3]
In 1975, a twin-screen movie theater owned and operated by General Cinema Corporation was added to the northeast corner of the mall. [23] The theater, formally known as Valley View Cinema 1 & 2, [32] closed in 1991. The facade of the movie theater was then boarded up and the interior furnishings were stripped out. [33]
The Texas Theatre was the largest suburban movie theater in Dallas and was part of a chain of theaters financed by Howard Hughes. It was the first theater in Dallas with air conditioning and featured many state-of-the-art luxuries. The theater is most famous for being the site of Lee Harvey Oswald's arrest on November 22, 1963.
Art deco facade, close up. Today the Bath House Cultural Center serves the artists and independent theatres of Dallas. It presents 15-20 exhibits and over 200 performances, concerts, festivals, workshops, lectures and other events per year.
Artist Square opened in 1989 as a 2-acre (8,100 m 2) lawn and performance pavilion constructed by the City of Dallas. [2] The $1.8 million project, one of the early venues in the growing Arts District, was temporary in nature and built as a public forum for local visual and performing artists who couldn't afford more elaborate venues.
The Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre is a theatre at the AT&T Performing Arts Center, located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas ().It is one of four venues that comprise the AT&T Performing Arts Center and was dedicated October 12, 2009.
The Granada Theater is a theatre located in Lower Greenville, in Dallas, TX. The theatre was built in 1946 as a movie house. The theatre was built in 1946 as a movie house. In 1977, it was converted to a concert hall, only to revert to a movie theater soon after.