Dallas Theater Center
by Paula Bosse
FLW’s DTC
by Paula Bosse
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Dallas Theater Center is seen here nestled amongst the woody landscape of Turtle Creek. There’s a lot of varied architecture going on in this photo!
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Sources & Notes
Photograph is from the Dallas Park and Recreation Department Collection, Dallas Municipal Archives; it is accessible via the Portal to Texas History, here.
The text on the back:
Opened in 1959, this Center provides pleasure for thousands of Dallasites and visitors yearly through a repertory of plays presented in its Kalita Humphreys Theater. This $1,000,000 Center, the last completed building and only theater designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, also incorporates a children’s and teen theater and a private school of drama.
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Copyright © 2016 Paula Bosse. All Rights Reserved.
Flashback : Dallas 
Great photo Paula! I still go to Kalita Humphreys to Uptown Players performances and each time I’m there I am disheartened by the condition of the building and the general lack of care the city shows it. Even simple things: it needs paint, the landscaping is not kept up, and so on. This is the only theater FLW ever built, it’s an iconic building in the swankiest part of Dallas at mid-century, and we’re letting it fall down.
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I haven’t been there in several years, but I do remember it looking a little ragged around the edges.
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Save the Kalita Humphreys Theater now, before it is too late.
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