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The Texas Theatre is a movie theater and Dallas landmark located in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas, Texas. It gained historical significance on November 22, 1963, as the location of Lee Harvey Oswald's arrest over the suspicion he was the killer of Dallas Police Officer J. D. Tippit and President John F. Kennedy. Today, it hosts a mix of ...
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 Majestic was the grandest of all the theaters along Dallas's Theatre Row which stretched for several blocks along Elm Street. The Melba, Tower, Palace, Rialto, Capitol, Telenews (newsreels and short-subjects exclusively), Fox (live burlesque), and Strand theatres were all demolished by the late 1970s; only the Majestic remains today. [7]
Kay Theater in Rockdale, Texas. A movie theater is usually called cinema in Anglophone countries outside North America. Other terms for the venue include movie house, film house, film theater, or picture house. In the US, theater has long been the preferred spelling, while in the UK, Australia, Canada, and elsewhere it is theatre.
Originally known as "Texas ShowPlace", the venue was meant to house concerts and theatrical performances for the Dallas–Fort Worth area. [3] The theatre opened in February 2002 as the "NextStage Performance Theater" [4] with a capacity of 6,350. [5] In May 2002, the theatre hired Dallas artist Cabe Booth to paint oil portraits of the visiting ...
Longtime Dallas-Fort Worth sports broadcaster and radio host Norm Hitzges announced Thursday that he will retire on June 23, according to KTCK The Ticket, where he hosts a show from 10 a.m. to ...
The UIL Texas high school football playoffs are underway. Games are spread out across Texas, with too many games to keep track of them all. There are plenty of options for those who wish to follow ...
The Granada Theater is a theater in the Lower Greenville neighborhood of Dallas. The theater 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 afterwards. In 2004 it was again opened as a concert hall.