Woodlawn Theater is the premiere historic local live performance theater venue in San Antonio. We are located in the heart of the historic Deco District of San Antonio, at 1920 Fredricksburg Road. Woodlawn Theatre was oringally designed by John Eberson and was opened in 1945 as an elegant venue for Hollywood films, with the premiere showing of the movie National Velvet starring Mickey Rooney and Elizabeth Taylor. In 1960, the world premiere of the famous movie The Alamo was hosted at the Woodlawn Theatre by John Wayne.

In 2012, Woodlawn Theatre Inc, LLC was named as a non-profit organization devoted to Bringing Broadway Home to San Antonio by providing quality, entertaining, educational, affordable, and contemporary programming for all ages. The organization was devoted to the arts by providing fresh and exciting programming, as well as to extending opportunities to professional and local artists to work in San Antonio, hence encouraging young professional San Antonio artists to return to and stay in the area.

Key aspects of their outreach included an active board of community leaders focused on renovating the Woodlawn Theater, bringing professional actors and directors to San Antonio to work with our artists, providing educational scholarships, reacquainting and exciting the community with the theater, maintaining and growing a year-round Children's Theater Program to educate and train the "stars" of tomorrow, today, and cultivating a Main Stage Program to entertain the San Antonio area with high quality contemporary theatrical programming.

In 2012, the landmark marquee of the Woodlawn Theatre was relit in full glory with the mutual financial help of City of San Antonio and personal funding from the current owner in the first time in 40 years, much to the delight of the entire community. That beautiful historic marquee still remains fully lit today with the original neon lighting designed by John Eberson.

Woodlawn Theater was designated as a City of San Antonio Historic Landmark in 2013 in a joint effort by the current building owner and the City of San Antonio Office of Historic Preservation, and is in the process of becoming a National Landmark.

In 2014, the space adjoining Woodlawn Theatre was renovated into a newly designed state of the art Black Box Theatre, which eventually became the home of the Classic Theatre of San Antonio, an award-winning professional theatre company. In 2022 and 2023, the second story of the Woodlawn Theatre Center, which adjoins the balcony area of Woodlawn Theater and was the previous home of the famous Woodlawn Bowling Lanes, has been completed remodeled and renovated into the Deco Ballroom and Event Center.

Today, the stars still shine bright at the Woodlawn Theatre and the Woodlawn Theatre Center. Come visit us soon!