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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 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 site of the mall's original movie theater closed in 1991, remained empty for over a decade, and was eventually renovated and replaced with studio spaces for radio stations KBFB and KZMJ. A new, larger AMC movie theater later opened, in 2004. The addition of the new theater slowed but did not halt the mall's decline.
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.
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]
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.
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.
Pictured in the foreground is the Winspear Opera House with its reflecting pool and the Meyerson Symphony Center, both located within the Dallas Arts District.. The Arts District is home to 18 facilities and organizations including The Annette Strauss Square, the Arts District Mansion/Dallas Bar Association, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Cathedral Shrine ...