It plays host to dance, comedy, and theater, including the Dallas Summer Musicals' Majestic Series. 214/880-0137), built in 1920, is the last of the vaudeville theaters in Dallas. The ornate, nicely restored Majestic Theater, 1925 Elm St. Local and touring productions, some fairly adventurous by Dallas standards (like Angels in America), are on the card here.
214/526-8210 is a little gem, the only professional working theater built by the famed American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and the best place for theater in the Dallas area. The Dallas Theater Center, Kalita Humphreys Theater, 3636 Turtle Creek Blvd. Another major international architect, Rem Koolhaas, is adding an intimate but futuristic theater tower to the complex: the Wyly Theater is scheduled to be completed around the same time.
214/443-1043 though the arts world in Dallas is buzzing with anticipation for the new Winspear Opera House, a red horseshoe within a glass box, designed by Sir Norman Foster, to open as part of the $340-million Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, in the heart of the Arts District, in the fall of 2009. (Free tours are available on selected days at 1pm call in advance for schedule.) The Dallas Opera currently performs at Campbell Center #1, 8350 N. Tickets to events are as little as $12, and free concerts are occasionally held. Pei-designed auditorium is equipped with excellent acoustics and a spectacular pipe organ. 214/670-3600 is home to the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, a very respectable outfit led by maestro Andrew Litton.