Ellis Theatre
217 S. Main Street,
Perryton,
TX
79070
217 S. Main Street,
Perryton,
TX
79070
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The Washington Post had a photo of an SUV shoved into the lobby. The marquee was still up, and looked mostly intact, except for the ‘E’ being folded over.
The Ellis Theatre was damaged, how bad, not known yet. June 16 2023… RAC Photography
The Ellis reopened with new owners in 2018
I might be interested in leasing this theatre.
Al
UPDATE: there is a campaign to Save The Ellis! https://www.facebook.com/SaveTheEllis/?hc_ref=SEARCH&fref=nf
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The Ellis Theater has indeed closed as of October 2016. I visited over Christmas. The building’s owner gave me a tour and everything is still in great condition, it just needs the right kind of love.
The theater closed for good on 10/3/16.
The Ellis also hosts live performances. See new pictures in the Photo section.
We plan on revisiting this one this summer to see the restoration progress. I’ll make sure we take digital pix this time. The Lyric Theatre in Spearman, TX., is also close to this one. We’ll visit and photograph it, too. As always we’ll post asap.
Charles, I have regular, paper photos of the Ellis but nothing digital. Guess I need to finally buy a new camera. Cindy and I love visiting these old theaters, meeting their owners, and hearing their stories. We’ve been to quite a few in Oklahoma, Kansas, eastern Colorado, and the Texas Panhandle. Do you have any favorites in these areas that we might enjoy visiting?
I just met the Ellis’s owner, and he has plans to restore it as we speak. In fact, he making really good progress. The main auditorium looks great! It has some really interesting mural work, and yes, the hanging lamps are still there. There are 4 of them in all. I mistakenly said the featured cherubs. In fact, they feature women figures dressed in flowing blue gowns. They’re quite impressive. The twin auditorium is the next door building, but it was “twinned” in such a way as to not harm the original theatre.
It’s a really nice theatre!
This one’s bigger than it looks! It has an opera pit. It also has hanging lamps with cherubs on them. I guess they were oil or gas lights??? Others things have certainly been “modernized.” Still it’s a pretty interesting theatre.