Majestic Theatre, Historic performance venue in Downtown Dallas, United States
The Majestic Theatre is a performance venue in Downtown Dallas featuring Renaissance Revival architecture with ornate design elements throughout. Its grand interior spaces showcase Corinthian columns, marble floors, and detailed plasterwork arranged across multiple levels.
Built in 1921 by architect John Eberson, the venue served as the main theater for Interstate Amusement Company. It replaced a previous building that had been destroyed by fire.
The theatre's name recalls the vaudeville circuit that Karl Hoblitzelle ran through the Interstate Amusement Company, and its stage hosted Houdini, Mae West and Bob Hope before films took over in 1932. Playwright Horton Foote worked here as an usher in 1932–33, aged sixteen. Today it stages musicals, plays, dance and concerts.
The auditorium seats 1,570: a main floor plus two balconies, with the first balcony divided into boxes and the second converted to sound and lighting systems. The stage has a resilient floor suited to dance. The entrance sits on Elm Street in the City Center District of Downtown Dallas.
The theater remains the last standing building from Elm Street's historic Theater Row, which once housed numerous entertainment venues. It stands as a solitary remnant of an entertainment district that vanished in the early twentieth century.
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