The Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre at 2403 Flora Street in the Dallas Arts District was designed by REX and OMA, with Joshua Prince-Ramus as partner in charge and Rem Koolhaas. The City of Dallas is the client. It opened in 2009 and was dedicated on October 12, 2009. Dee and Charles Wyly gave $20 million to the AT&T Performing Arts Center, of which the theatre is one of four venues. The article names no style.
The building has 80,300 square feet and is twelve stories tall, with a vertically stacked layout. Its facade of extruded anodized aluminum rods runs on all four sides and is meant to evoke the folds of a theatre curtain. Capacity is about 600, depending on the stage configuration.
Resident companies are the Dallas Theater Center, Dallas Black Dance Theatre and Anita N. Martinez Ballet Folklorico. The article gives no hours or ticket prices.
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