Granada Theater, Music and movie venue in Lower Greenville, Dallas, US.
The Granada Theater is a music venue and movie theater in the Lower Greenville neighborhood of Dallas, Texas, housed in a 1940s building designed in the Art Deco style. The interior holds around 1,000 seats and features hand-painted murals along the walls.
The building opened in 1946 as a neighborhood movie house and ran primarily as a cinema for several decades. Over time it shifted toward live music while keeping film screenings, becoming a dual-purpose space that reflected changes in how Dallas residents spent their evenings.
The Granada sits at the center of Lower Greenville's evening scene, drawing a mix of local regulars and visitors to its concerts and film nights. The crowd tends to be relaxed and engaged, and the indoor layout makes it easy to feel close to the stage.
The theater is on Greenville Avenue, surrounded by bars and restaurants that make it easy to combine a visit with dinner or drinks before or after a show. Checking the event calendar in advance is a good idea since some nights sell out early.
The lobby murals were painted in 1981 by James Franklin, hired by then owner Louis Stool. When John Appleton and Keith McKeague overhauled the interior in 1987, they changed the auditorium to its present green and gold while preserving and highlighting those murals. The ceiling shows a mythological film goddess above a reel of film, crowned by a sunburst.
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