Frank Lloyd Wright’s only freestanding theater built during his lifetime, and his only public building in Texas, the Kalita Humphreys Theater represents the culmination of the vision for a unique, new theater type by one of America’s greatest architects. It was used for cutting-edge experimental theater by founding director Paul Baker. When it opened in 1959, it was “hailed as the most innovative and interesting theater in the country.” The auditorium was a powerful environmental space, with an intimate relationship between actor and audience, and a perfect acoustic. Rising above the rocky bluffs next to Turtle Creek, the theater is a sculptural concrete building of cylindrical forms on an angled grid, integrated into a setting of primordial beauty. [Excerpt from www.wrightinthepark.org]